Description
The residential building for the families of fishermen forms the head of a row in the harbor district. The geometry of the ground plan with its two mirror-image apartments is as animated as the undulating facade. The corridor leads in a sweeping diagonal across the apartment and straight ahead into the living room to a corner which is dissolved into window elements allowing the space to be flooded in light and offering a view onto the street space.
A passage at a right angle in front of the living room leads to the kitchen with terrace. The bedroom wing with ensuite bath is located on the other side of the main corridor; the bedrooms are reached via a separate corridor and are connected on the exterior by loggias, which are protected from the elements with louvered shutters. The movable louvers, which allow the occupants to regulate the ingress of light, further animate the facade. The modest apartment size is amply compensated by the optimized use of all rooms, for which the furnishings were custom designed with a great attention to detail.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
Lower level with storage and caretaker’s apartment
Raised ground floor with commercial spaces
Standard floor with two 3-room apartments, scale 1:200
Section
Photos
Exterior view
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.