From Hospital to School – Renovation and Conversion of a Listed Building in Gersthof by Franz und Sue

In Vienna’s Gersthof area, Franz & Sue transformed the Orthopaedic Hospital from the 1920s into a contemporary educational campus. The striking building is a listed monument and situated in a sprawling park with century-old trees. After the hospital moved out, it was almost converted into luxury apartments. Instead, however, the Federal Real Estate Company (Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) acquired the property and developed a flagship project for the adaptation of existing buildings into contemporary learning landscapes. In this way, the building remains open to the public. At the rear of the extensive park, two new gymnasiums with black-glazed, wooden slatted façades complement the existing pavilion structure on the campus with a contemporary architectural vocabulary.