Karmeliterhof | LOVE Architecture and urbanism

The project, an office building of the Landesimmobiliengesellschaft (provincial real estate department), is situated in the heart of Graz’s old town, on the northern part of the Karmeliterplatz (Karmeliter Square) and at the foot of the Schlossberg (castle hill).

The project goals were to adapt and renovate the building and to add annexes that met the following objectives:

1                      Upgrade the facades both architecturally and thermally

2                      Modernize and adapt the existing buildings

-       improve workplace quality

-       offer complete accessibility

-       adapt to new fire protection OIB-regulations,

3                      Enhance the building components connecting the buildings to form a closed,   functioning complex

One of the most essential requirements was the construction of approximately 2,400m² of office space to hold the “House of Generations” - a group of the most important Styrian governmental institutions concerned with youth and family.