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K. Walal, U. Pont, A. Mahdavi et al.:
"Architecture and technical aspects of the swimming hall designs by Friedrich Florian Grünberger";
Poster: Vienna Young Scientist Symposium 2019, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; 2019-06-13 - 2019-06-14; in: "VSS - Vienna Young Scientist Symposium June 13-14, 2019", K. Ehrmann, H. Mansouri Khosravi (ed.); (2019), ISBN: 978-3-9504017-9-0; 52 - 53.

In the year 1968, the Viennese government decided to implement a new concept regarding public swimming pool halls ("Bäderkonzept"). Thereby, it was decided that a network of easily accessible and affordable swimming pool halls should be constructed. The idea behind was to re-establish the bathing culture of earlier times in Vienna, and to generate facilities for sport and recreation of the population. As a key, 1m² of swimming pool surface area was intended for 333 inhabitants of Vienna. It is obvious that with the facilities available in Vienna at that time, this key could not be reached. Thus, the architect Friedrich Florian Grünberger (Figure 1) developed the so called Bezirkshallenbäderprogramm (district indoor swimming pool program). Based on this concept a set of very similar swimming pool halls has been constructed in Vienna. While Grünberger in the 1960ies and 1970ies was a well-known architect specialized on recreational facilities - he was even called the bathpope of Vienna (der Bäderpapst von Wien) -, today little knowledge about him is preserved. This seems a bit surprising, given that the majority of his swimming bath design from the backbone of Vienna´s public bath infrastructure of today. One of Grünberger´s major developments was the concept of the so-called Europabad, a porotypical plan-layout for an indoor swimming pool hall (Figure 2).
In a first attempt to rediscover some of the knowledge about both the architect and his ouvre, it was decided to propose a master thesis that focusses on some technical aspects of one of Grünberger´s swimming pool halls of Vienna. The findings discussed below are based on this master thesis [3].

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In the year 1968, the Viennese government decided to implement a new concept regarding public swimming pool halls ("Bäderkonzept"). Thereby, it was decided that a network of easily accessible and affordable swimming pool halls should be constructed. The idea behind was to re-establish the bathing culture of earlier times in Vienna, and to generate facilities for sport and recreation of the population. As a key, 1m² of swimming pool surface area was intended for 333 inhabitants of Vienna. It is obvious that with the facilities available in Vienna at that time, this key could not be reached. Thus, the architect Friedrich Florian Grünberger (Figure 1) developed the so called Bezirkshallenbäderprogramm (district indoor swimming pool program). Based on this concept a set of very similar swimming pool halls has been constructed in Vienna. While Grünberger in the 1960ies and 1970ies was a well-known architect specialized on recreational facilities - he was even called the bathpope of Vienna (der Bäderpapst von Wien) -, today little knowledge about him is preserved. This seems a bit surprising, given that the majority of his swimming bath design from the backbone of Vienna´s public bath infrastructure of today. One of Grünberger´s major developments was the concept of the so-called Europabad, a porotypical plan-layout for an indoor swimming pool hall (Figure 2).
In a first attempt to rediscover some of the knowledge about both the architect and his ouvre, it was decided to propose a master thesis that focusses on some technical aspects of one of Grünberger´s swimming pool halls of Vienna. The findings discussed below are based on this master thesis [3].