Description
This house was designed by the architect for his family, and, resting on six concrete cores due to weak near-surface soils, appears to hover over the inclined site. The U-shaped, niche-like rooms in these cores along the facade become a motif and are repeated on the other sides of the house, where they contain sanitary rooms or staircases, storage spaces or bay windows with integrated seating. The spatially dominant elements, however, are the floating wooden horizontal levels overlapping in an offset split-level formation over the terrain, which generate a near borderless space with numerous spatial and visual connections and open at multiple points onto outdoor terraces. The central portion of the Z-shaped floor plan incorporates a studio, living spaces, entrance and kitchen. Branching off to either side are the master and children’s bedrooms.
Drawings
Floor plan diagrams, scale 1.500
Lower level with the sunken studio offset to central living level by ½ story, scale 1:500
Upper levels, scale 1:200
Longitudinal section, scale 1:500
Sectional perspective of house volume
Photos
Exterior view of entrance
Interior view of the living levels
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider with Eric Zapel (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fifth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2018.