Architecture student, TU Wien
Six years of building construction with a focus on timber construction at HTL Krems, followed by architecture at TU Wien. The bachelor’s degree is nearly complete; the master’s will follow.
“Architecture makes it possible to break through boundaries, to imagine spaces beyond the familiar and to share one’s own reality with others.”
A roof that bows to the water rather than displacing it.
“Lightness is a discipline. Not the absence of weight, but the result of care, precision, and courage.”
Densification in rural areas.
“The future for Mondsee.”
1000m
That is the length of the building: a school, bright flats, a market hall with regional produce and a sports hall, attuned to landscape and use in length and cross-section.
A modular timber structure sits on a solid reinforced-concrete base; the modules can be delivered by rail.
Where the A1 cuts through the southern slope of Mondsee, the building spans the route and turns the barrier into an address.
The length is used, not hidden: four main uses along one axis.
Open structures, greenery and carefully directed light connect urban life with the landscape of the Salzkammergut.
A distribution ring above the tracks at Matzleinsdorfer Platz.
“A ring that connects the station with the surrounding amenities.”
Select a module to see its role in the system.
A housing complex made of repurposed shipping containers, organised by fire, earth, water and air. Six flat types interlock across ten levels to form an urban block; the circulation is designed as a vertical garden.
Productive agriculture and neighbourhood: fields become agricultural parks, a market becomes the centre, single-family housing areas are selectively densified. Four areas: in-between garden, utopia of the fields, neighbourhood meeting point, green hub.
Little public space, no centre, hardly any local jobs or shops.
Climate awareness, working from home, less traffic: agriculture moves into the city.
Affordable housing, community, walkability, short distances.
Coworking houses, the market as centre, private gardens become public.
References
An underground passage from garden level down to the promenade along the Danube Canal. Rows of cubes and cuboids form a flowing space across several heights. The model was the concrete blocks of the Wotruba Church; only the entrance cubes are brick, like Karl Schwanzer’s studios at the Angewandte.
The church in Völs, reimagined: an octagon of glued laminated timber whose folded structure reads as a dome and supports itself. Beneath it, a reinforced-concrete base.
A sculptural model in FIMOair. Its windings present a new image from every side; the hole in the centre makes it permeable. Shaped, air-dried, sanded and painted white so that light and shadow carry the form.
A memorial for the future that recalls the Covid-19 pandemic: in homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the Marian column is wrapped. Above it floats a cloud of threads. For some it is protection, for others a threat, invisible and yet always there.
A canteen on the ground floor, with rooms for ÖBB railway staff above. Courtyard with a tree, green roofs and timber construction. A place to arrive after a shift.
Floor plans, concept sketches and renderings from six years at HTL.
Disclosure pursuant to § 25 Austrian Media Act
Media owner and responsible for content:
Elena Vogt, Laaben, Austria
e.vogt210501@gmail.com
Editorial line: personal portfolio of design projects and work from university, school education and professional practice.
Copyright: All plans, images and texts © 2015–2026 Elena Vogt or the respective team partners named. Use only with permission.
Information pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR
The controller is Elena Vogt (for contact details see the legal notice).
Hosting. This website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA); data transfers to the USA are based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. When this website is accessed, the hosting provider processes technically necessary access data (IP address, date and time, page accessed, browser) in server log files in order to deliver the site and ensure its security (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR).
No cookies, no tracking. This website does not set cookies and does not use any analytics or advertising services. The fonts are hosted locally; no data is transmitted to Google when the site is accessed.
Email. If you write to me, I will use your details solely to reply to your message.
External links. Links to external websites (e.g. LinkedIn, Instagram, architecture practices, universities) transmit data to their operators only when clicked.
Your rights. You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (dsb.gv.at).
Click the image to zoom to full resolution