VinziDorf Wien offers low-threshold, alternative housing for long-term homeless people, who cannot accept existing institutions due to their personal constitution.
In VinziDorf Wien, men suffering from alcohol abuse can find a home - indefinitely and unconditionally and inhabit it according to their possibilities.
A social project that aims to remedy a deficiency without reacting to it with a deficiency depends on donations. Right at the beginning of the project phase, comrades-in-arms were sought and found in the construction industry who could sponsor the high-quality building material. Such projects would not be possible without this commitment.
After living on the streets for many years, the goal was to meet the great need for retreat and privacy. To create a place of their own where they can safely leave their few and therefore valuable things behind. Your own door that you can lock. Only when the security of being able to stay has been regained and one feels accepted as a person is it possible to participate more in social life again.
The chosen structural village structure optimally supports these needs. 16 residential modules were built together with students from HTL Mödling using a mixed construction method. The prefabricated wooden walls produced in the school workshops complement the brick walls made of donated Porotherm W.i. Stones that have been whitewashed on the inside to reveal the structure of the bricks. The different wall materials each contribute in their own way to a pleasant living environment.
Other donations in kind such as windows, floor coverings and facade panels from leftover stocks give the houses their individual appearance.
The existing old farm building, also a brick building, was not demolished, but gently renovated and contains rooms for communal living.
Voluntary helpers, material and work donations have made a significant contribution to reducing the project costs and thereby making the project possible.
As a result of this joint effort, 24 fewer people sleep on the street today.
