Description

Access:

Opening of interior courtyard onto plaza; entrance and stairwell located on the courtyard side; vertical point access, four units per floor; interior stairwell; stairwells lit by windows.

Interior space:

The apartments face two or three sides and generally consist of a living/dining space with kitchen units and access to the garden on the ground floor. The bedrooms and the naturally lit bathrooms are accessed via a corridor.

Exterior space:

Private gardens on ground floor; loggia and diagonally situated balcony on upper floors.

Morphology:

The clear and compact volume recalls small Venetian palazzi. The building follows traditional typologies in terms of proportions and materials but reinterprets familiar elements and thus creates an abstract form of a historical model. The base of the building is clad with natural stone slabs of various heights. The graphic character of the gray-plaster facade is underlined by the three different window formats, which are framed in bright Trani stone, which is flush with the interior or exterior surface, depending on the situation of the interior, and the attic has a narrow band of natural stone as an upper termination.

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