WALTER    UNTERRAINER                                               
ATELIER   FÜR   ARCHITEKTUR

MARKTGASSE                        17
6800                         FELDKIRCH

office @architekt-unterrainer.com
walter@architekt-unterrainer.com

TEL           0043 5522 /  74684  
FAX          0043 5522 /  74684 - 4                 
 

 

 

Born  1952 in Innsbruck
1970  College degree in Innsbruck
from 1970  studies of architecture in Innsbruck, 2 years working and studying in England

from 1980  own architectural office in Feldkirch / Vorarlberg
 
Ecological aspects in Architecture from town planning scale into detail, avoiding sick building syndromes as well as economic construction methods by radical prefabrication were key issues of the office since it started  

 

1994 - 2004  lecturer (Docent) for design, building construction and ecological building methods at the University of Applied sciences in Liechtenstein

from 2005   lecturer at the Kunstuniversität Linz / Austria  (Linz University of Arts) for
the design of wooden buildings and wooden constructions

from 2006 professor at the University for Applied Sciences in Salzburg

2007  visiting professor at the School Of Architecture in Ljubljana / Slovenia

since october 2007     professor at the School Of Architecture in Aarhus / Denmark

from 1995 workshops at different Universities like London, Aachen, KTH Stockholm, Tallin, Bologna, Vienna,  Mackintosh School of Architecture / Glasgow 2003 und 2004, Skopje, Ljubljana, Kiew,  Tokyo,  Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger   etc.

 

Long study trips to Finland, Mexico and many countries in South America, India, Cambodia, Australia and New Zealand, Japan 

 

From 1984 specializing in extremely energy efficient architecture and building of ´controlled experimental´ innovative strategies in practice

The office has finished altogether more then 100 projects in different scales, new buildings as well as renovations, housing projects, farmhouses, school renovations, office- and industrial buildings as well as interior design.

Among those a selection of the most important ones:
 


1988   first Solar school in Austria with Hermann Kaufmann and Sture Larsen after winning the competition.                                                                                       

1988  Ecological low energy low cost housing for 11 families in planning participation

1989 Prefabricated Industrial Building ´Schweizer und Pilger´ 

1991 10 month studies in New Zealand

From 1991   refining prefabrication methods of individual wooden buildings


1992 first prefabricated house in Dornbirn made of plywood

1993 detached house with 2 flats in Koblach -  built in 10 weeks                       

1994  construction of the first house in Austria with a window solar collector     


1996 Solar Architecture Award of Vorarlberg for the cardboard houses in Bregenz
                                                                                                                           
         


1997  Solar Architecture Award of  Vorarlberg for the passive houses in Batschuns as the first terraced passive houses in Austria                                                     


1997  Architecture Award of the Austrian Architectural Union for the cardboard houses in Bregenz
 
1998   Wooden Architecture award of Vorarlberg   for the animal hospital with a flat in  
Lauterach – massive wooden structure with cardboard façade                 Photo 7
 
1998 first price of the competition for a industrial building ´Lot Holzbau´ - built as an experimental and extremely low cost factory             

1999  Wooden Architecture award of Vorarlberg for 3 flats in Feldkirch (Wachter /                  
 Schennach / Schennach). Low cost passive house flats, highly prefabricated 

                        
 
1999 Winner of the open competition Bus Terminal and Office building in Feldkirch together with Markus Gohm and Ulf Hiesberger           
 
2000 – now   Architect and consultant for several energy efficient projects in Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France, Norway and Scotland 

2001  2  State Awards  `Haus der Zukunft`  (future houses) - for  the passive houses in Batschuns and the 3 flats in Feldkirch (Wachter / Schennach / Schennach)

2002 Wooden Architecture award for Lot factory

2002  Construction of the first certified office building as passive house in Austria
´ Fa. Schlossgangl´ in  Steyr / Upper Austria                                           
 
2003  Award of Solar Architecture for  ´Fa. Schlossgangl´ in Steyr – as well as Austrian Solar Globe 

2003  Wooden Architecture Award of Upper Austria for  the passive house office building ´Fa. Schlossgangl´ in Steyr

2003 2  Wooden Architecture Awards in Vorarlberg for the 5 passive houses in Klaus and the prefabricated passive house in Satteins with polycarbon facade
 
                                      

2004   Finalist of the competition for 200 passive house flats in Vienna            

2004   Construction of 2 prefabricated low cost passive houses with textile facades

                                                     

2005 Finish of 2 experimental massive wooden projects: a passive house in difficult topography and an extreme low cost private school building

2007  Award for wooden architecture  Passive house Ess Längle