Description

Access:

Entrance halls on the street side; vertical point access, two units per floor; interior stairwell; stairwells lit by skylight.

Interior:

In keeping with the very deep building and its north–south orientation, most of the apartments are designed to extend to more than one floor and are oriented to two or three sides. The result is a mixture of units occupying an entire floor and duplex units as well as split-level units perpendicular to the structure of the building. The split-level units have a 3.5-meter-high hall-like living room that runs the full depth of the building, includes kitchen units, and extends into the loggia across the entire width of the unit.

Exterior:

Loggias, adjacent to the living room and individual room with variations for the corners; roof terraces.

Morphology:

The mass and depth of the building, with ocher brown plaster, are developed in reaction to the buildings in the vicinity. In contrast to the north facade—a classical, serene facade following the street, punctuated with restraint with just window openings and two different proportions—the south facade is more sculptural and has deep cutaways for the loggia spaces.

 

 

---

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