Description

Access:

Combination of exterior corridor around the building, from which some of the apartments are accessed directly, and vertical point access, two units per floor, with interior stairwell; stairwell lit by windows.

Interior:

Separated from the existing walls, new inner shells analogous to the outer shell are produced. The functional areas are integrated into the space in between the inner and outer wall: kitchen niche, sleeping niche, bathroom niche, office area, and so on. The result is an empty, partially two-story center—a kind of “living hall”—to which the various functions of living can be carried out one of the other or simultaneously.

Exterior:

Communal terrace between the floors.

Morphology:

The existing volume is given a new outer shell made of wood slats impregnated with black that cover both the walls and the roof and serve as a trellis for vines. The exterior corridors of zinc-plated steel, which also have zinc-plated grilles for floors and parapets, contrast with the homogeneously concealed volume.

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