Buildings are viewed holistically, and modern living spaces created that impress with energy and resource efficiency. Ones that sustainably change the living environment. It is imperative that issues such as sustainability and climate change, urbanisation, the increasing interlinking of energy supply, consumption and storage, the progressive digitisation of our lives, development of new materials as well as social challenges such as demographic changes and “affordable living” are taken into account.
Five institutes of the Faculty of Architecture and MCI Innsbruck, which are also strongly committed to research, are educating a professional, technically well-founded and artistic new generation.
The province supports innovative and artistic projects with the cultural sponsorship “Kunst am Bau” (Art in Construction). In this way, modern, sometimes controversial, buildings are created in Tirol that perfectly depict both the contrasts and connection between tradition and modernity.
Award-winning and internationally renowned architects have made a lasting impact on Tirol. Lois Welzenbacher, for example, has immortalised himself as one of the most important representatives of classical modernism with the Adambräu Brauerei brewhouse. Zaha Hadid surpassed herself with the Bergisel Ski Jump which has become a landmark and also impresses in terms of functionality. She achieved the perfect connection between urban culture and alpine nature with the architectural masterpiece of the four stations of the Hungerburgbahn funicular railway. The sensitive handling of existing building stock is demonstrated in many works by David Chipperfield, one of which can be witnessed at Kaufhaus Tyrol in Innsbruck.
