Description
Open-plan approach to urban infill. The shallowness of the building and the generous use of glass (glass facade to courtyard, corner windows, glass stairwell to street) are designed to channel as much light as possible into and through the building while illuminating the street and block interior at the same time.
The glazed stairwell, in which the staircase lies parallel to the facade, dramatizes the coming and going of residents. The roughly square floor plans are arranged around a compact core – with bath, WC, forecourt, kitchen row; they can be divided by sliding walls or used as freely flowing space. The sliding walls disappear entirely into their wall pockets.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
Typical floor plan 2nd-5th floor, scale 1:200
Two furnishing proposals, scale 1:200
Photos
Street façade
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.