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148 HAFNERRIEGEL BY WERKGRUPPE GRAZ Year 1964 Status Modified Material Cardboard 3D Print Scale 1:100 Model maker Robert Anagnostopoulos Up until 2013, the Hafnerriegel, located in the Jakomini district of Graz, was functioning as student housing for approximately 360 students. The Werkgruppe Graz was especially established in order to carry out the Austrian Student Aid Foundation’s commission to design the 50m tall building. On each of the 19 floors, living units of five single rooms, or three double rooms, each had a tea kitchen, a dining space and a sanitary room. The units were arranged around the central stairwell in a helical path. Due to the tightening of fire protection rules at the time, a double- flight fire escape staircase made of exposed concrete was attached to the outside of the highrise, giving the building its unique look.1 From 2013 to 2014, the building was redesigned by the Austrian architecture office Architektur Consult. The student housing facility was transformed into 73 flats. Four penthouses were added on the roof of the building and the characteristic staircase on the outside was demolished.2 1 Guttmann, Eva; Kaiser, Gabriele; HDA Graz (Ed.) (2013): Werkgruppe Graz 1959-1989; Architecture at the Turn of Late Modernism. Zürich: Park Books. 57-59. 2 Wohnbau Hafnerriegel. http://www.archconsult.com/projects/selected-projects/residential-and-hotels/wohnbau-hafnerriegel-graz. 13.2.2018.