RAIQA

RH3337 0209 web

A vibrant neighborhood at the entrance to the city. 
Raiffeisenlandesbank Tirol serves as a hub for services, art, culture, dining, and hotel accommodations.

Year

2019

Venue

Innsbruck

State

Completed

Category

Mixed

Size

38.214 m²

Year

Venue

State

Category

Size

2019

Innsbruck

Completed

Mixed

38.214 m²

Year

2019

Venue

Innsbruck

State

Completed

Category

Mixed

Size

38.214 m²

RH3337 0014 RH

Innsbruck Mitte Neighborhood

An urban space on the Raiffeisenlandesbank property that is open to the public. It is intended to serve as a plaza that invites people to linger or take advantage of various offerings, while also encouraging its use as an attractive link between the train station and downtown.

Raiqa Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20260511 19 web
Raiqa Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20260511 20 web
RH3337 0089 web neu

The new building, a synthesis of these ideas, is a hybrid that meets all of these requirements.

The central idea was to demolish the Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol building complex in its original form, but to carve out the core of the building—the beautiful, wide-span reinforced concrete skeleton structure of the high-rise—literally freeing it from its loads and transforming it into a flexible spatial structure that opens onto the atrium and lobby of the new hybrid building complex (“DAS RAIQA”).

Raiqa struktur
Pxt DAS RAIQA Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20230316 10 web neu
Pxt DAS RAIQA Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20230316 10 web
Pxt DAS RAIQA Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20230316 56 web

The structural framework of the old building becomes the defining feature of the new one.

RH3337 0160 web RH

Based on the premise of an exposed reinforced concrete structure, the following steps were taken

Between Südtiroler Platz and Adamgasse, a plaza is taking shape that opens in a trapezoidal shape to the full width of the National Bank building across the street. From the plaza, the bank lobby, the self-service and quick-consultation areas, and the hotel are all accessible and arranged in a free-flowing, logical layout. The space within the reinforced concrete skeleton serves as the bank and hotel lobby, a shared atrium, and part of the Art Space.

Raiqa Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20260511 40 web
RH3337 0144 web
RH3337 0120 web

The elevators are freestanding glass elevators that travel between the exposed reinforced concrete beams to the banking levels on one side and the hotel floors on the other.

Raiqa Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20260511 95 web

An inviting, spiral staircase leads to the consultation level, which, together with lounge and meeting areas, is arranged in a gallery-like configuration around the hall. The three office clusters are all located on a single level above.

RH3337 0156 web RH

This ensures simple, barrier-free, and non-hierarchical communication—“we all work on the same level.” The open space created by the reinforced concrete skeleton serves both as a small courtyard and as a shared atrium.

Raiqa Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20260511 66 web
RH3337 0171 web

On the north side (toward Bozner Platz) and the east side, the next level serves as a transition between the hotel and the bank; as such, it is designed to house the event and seminar areas and features double-height ceilings.

The hotel’s guest room wings begin on Adamgasse on the fourth level and extend up to the ninth floor. They are composed precisely of those room modules that, as functional units, correspond to the grid of the former office tower.

Pxt RAIQA holztragwerk wooden framework web

However, the hotel wings extend far northward beyond the main hall, framing another courtyard with a terrace on the roof of the event area, which is densely landscaped.

Raiqa Innsbruck Foto Toni Rappersberger 20260511 50 cut web
Reception 43207515 web
RH3337 0078 web
Christoph Schubert Executive Room 43208035 web
RH3337 0078 web kl

The restaurant and the Skybar are situated as a floating platform on the top floor, at the upper edge of the reinforced concrete skeleton structure, and offer a spectacular 360-degree panoramic view of the Upper and Lower Inn Valley, the Nordkette, and toward Serles.

The facades are designed to be particularly durable, featuring large-format glazing, aluminum, and exposed concrete surfaces. As exterior sun protection, curtain-wall structures made of slender aluminum profiles, fabric panels, and printed panels resembling curtains were used.

RH3337 0108 web
RH3337 0021 web
RH3337 0088 web

RAIQA stands for transformation. It embodies the idea that something new can be created from an existing space without simply replacing it. And it reflects the belief that architecture does more than just shape buildings—it makes cities, movement, and encounters possible.

Presse A 00 FBOK fin 200 2 01 web
Presse A 03 FBOK fin 200 2 01 web
Presse A 04 FBOK fin 200 2 01 web
Presse A 09 FBOK fin 200 2 01 web
Pxt RAIQA LS A fin 200 longitudinal section

Architecture

Pichler & Traupmann Architects

Design team

Bartosz Lewandowski (team leader)
Patrik Drechsler
David Guisado T.
Anna Gulinska
Jakub Kaczmarek
Andreas Schermann
Jan Niklas Schöpf
Milan Suchánek

Project team

Alexander Tauber (project leader)
Adnan Balic (coordinator general planner)
Nikola Beim
Iris Berger
Patrik Drechsler
Peter Grandits
Florian Huber
Jakub Kaczmarek
Joachim Kess
Alexander Klapsch
Moritz Kühn
Bartosz Lewandowski
Giuseppe Malfona
Elisa Mazagg
Piotr Pindor
Jan Niklas Schöpf
Julian Straub
Milan Suchanek
Rafal Szczyglowski
Wolfgang Windt
Martin Zamazal
Stefan Zimmermann

BIM-Management

Tibor Koczian
Barbara Jarmaczki 
Severin Türk

Client

Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG

Structural design

RWT Plus ZT GmbH, Vienna

Structural engineering for steel structures

FS1 Ziviltechniker GmbH, Innsbruck

Structural design wood construction

RWT Plus ZT GmbH, Vienna

Building services

Woschitz Engineering ZT GmbH, Oberwart

Building physics

RWT Plus ZT GmbH, Vienna

Acoustics/RLB hall

Müller-BBM Building Solutions GmbH, Munich

Electrical planning

Kubik Project GmbH, Wiener Neudorf

Structural fire protection

IBS Technisches Büro GmbH, Linz

Facade planning

gbd Projects ZT GmbH, Dornbirn

Geotechnics

GUB Geotechnik GesmbH, Absam

Lighting planning

Conceptlicht.at GmbH, Kematen

Kitchen planning

Feichter Großküchen- und Wäschereitechnik, Inzing

Building certification

Spektrum Bauphysik&Bauökologie GmbH, Dornbirn

Sprinkler planning

Hoyer Brandschutz GmbH, Vienna

Occupancy planning

M.O.O.CON GmbH, Vienna

Cost Management

werner consult ziviltechnikergmbh, Vienna

Landscape design

Carla Lo, Vienna

Art in/on the buildung

Dorit Margreiter Choy, Vienna

Local construction supervision

Drees & Sommer Projektmanagement u. bautechnische Planung GmbH, Innsbruck
 

Hard facts

Start of planning: 2019
Start of construction: 2022
Completion: 2026
Usable floor area: 23,098 m² 
Gross floor area: 38,214 m² 
Function: Multifunctional building (bank, offices, retail, restaurants, hotel, art space)
Scope: Designer with responsibility for all design services, BIM

Photos


Roland Halbe, Stuttgart
Toni Rappersberger, Vienna
Christoph Schubert
Franz Oss Photography 
 

Certifications

klimaaktiv Gold (RLB), OEGNB (Hotel)

Related projects

LDZ Salzburg

RLB Landesbank Kärnten

Wiener Neustadt, Civitas Nova

Wiener Neustadt Station Area