Description

Access:

Thoroughfare to access street; entrance halls on courtyard side; vertical point access, two units per floor; interior stairwell; stairwells lit by windows or skylight.

Interior:

As a rule, the apartments of various sizes have an open-plan, north–south oriented “living hall” with a loggia and, in the case of the maisonettes, an open space opposite it with stairs to the upper level. The bathrooms, kitchens, and bedrooms, which receive natural light and ventilation, are located around the stairwell and are accessed via a spacious corridor or hall.

Exterior space:

Loggias adjacent to the living room and kitchen; a variety of terrace layouts with special arrangements on the ends of the buildings.

Morphology:

This polygonal residential slab with a stepped elevation marks and anchors the entire south-facing ensemble as an urban planning landmark and also serves as a noise barrier for the courtyard. The volume is elevated at the ends and projects floor by floor into the surrounding streets. This unusual plasticity is soothed in turn by a unified facade material in the form of robust bricks of varied bright grays and, in most cases, full-height window openings. The result is a diverse offering of outdoor spaces of various sizes that can be used in different ways.

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