Description

Access:

The entrances to the units are accessed via an access zone designed as a relief; entrance halls connect the sides of the building; vertical point access, two or three units per floor; interior stairwells; stairwells lit by windows.

Interior space:

The main element of the apartments is a spacious living/dining room, which develops diagonally from the entrance toward the light on the southwest side and continues fluidly into the kitchen. Its direct interlocking of inside and outside, either as a balcony or winter garden, results in a slightly articulated handling of the space that leaves it open to diverse use. Whereas the individual rooms along a corridor on the north side are arranged additively, all of the bathrooms and toilets are in the center of the volume.

Exterior space:

On the standard floors, a combination of winter gardens and balconies that extend well into the building volume, most of which are arranged diagonally; private roof terraces; communal outdoor spaces between the residential buildings.

Morphology:

The staggered residential slabs face the lake. In combination with their orientation toward the sun, this gives the two buildings different characters: one side is open, articulated horizontally by prefabricated concrete parts and balconies and winter gardens; the other side is more closed with cladding of brownish ocher bricks and single-pane windows for the individual rooms. One essential component of the look of the complex is the way these different facades are brought together on the short sides in order to create a sculptural, identifiable whole.

 

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