Description

Access:

Common entrance on the ground floor serves as lobby and atrium and connects to stairwells; vertical point access, two to four units per floor on the upper levels; interior stairwells.

Interior space:

Large cuts articulate the volume of the building; on the upper floors, this results in separate volumes, making it possible for the variously large apartments to face, and get light from, multiple sides. The units differ considerably but all have a hall-like living/dining room, to which the largely open kitchen attaches niche-like. Corridors with hall-like extensions provide access to the bedrooms and the wet cells, most of which are located in the interior.

Exterior space:

Terraces, balconies, and winter gardens of great variety provide different outdoor spaces and possible uses for them; communal garden on the ground floor and communal roof terrace on the second floor.

Morphology:

The cuts and projections of the volume are the primary reason for the building’s three-dimensional look. At the same time, this corporeality is superimposed with powerful frames around the window openings and a colorful pixilation of the ceramic skin.

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Originally published in: Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Höllbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Ulrike Wietzorrek, Typology +: Innovative Residential Architecture, Birkhäuser, 2009.