Description

Access:

Arcades on two or three sides create a generous, covered entry area; vertical point access, three units per floor; interior stairwell; stairwell lit by skylight.

Interior space:

These apartments, which face two or three sides, generally consist of a living/dining room with separate kitchen, which extends outdoors in the form of a loggia. The bedrooms and the bathrooms, some of which receive natural light, are accessed via a corridor that can be closed off. The diversity of openings on the facade is not the result of the floor plan varying from floor to floor but rather of an intent to create as many different connections to the outdoors as possible.

Exterior space:

Loggias of various sizes, with niche-like extensions on the sides; some open diagonally.

Morphology:

The morphology of the two residential towers of this subsidized housing is fundamentally marked by the reddish brown facade cladding of clay tiles and the differentiation between the base floors, the standard floors, and the sculptural beveled top floors. The configuration of the openings is diverse and varied. Secondary elements, such as the steel or glass banisters and the sunshades in the form of rolling or sliding shutters in cobalt blue, increase the variety. In addition, both connections are established vertically between the openings of the loggias and horizontally between the windows. Together with the bright limestone fields, this results in a composition of different strata of the facade orders.

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