Description

Access:

Vertical point access, two units per floor; interior stairwell; stairwells lit by skylight.

Interior:

Like a Loosian Raumplan, the apartments of various sizes are developed freely within the volume of the building. The open, central living space always extends to one-and-a-half or two floors and forms gallery spaces. The individual rooms are located like individual cells alongside this flow of space and are accessed via halls and corridors. The majority of the bathrooms and toilets are located at the core of the building, which does not receive natural light, and are ventilated mechanically.

Exterior:

Private roof terraces on upper levels.

Morphology:

The exterior of the staggered volume of the upper floors has three different materials: the stone bands reflect the partition walls and ceilings one the outside, thus marking the various housing units on the facade. A combination of transparent and mirrored glass both relates the surroundings to the interior of the apartments and reflects the surroundings on the building. The metal ornamental structure of the base of the building alludes to the vegetation of its context. The facade is intended to be seen as an oscillating surface, communicating between the inner structure of the urban apartments and the rural atmosphere of the context.

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