Description

Access:

Entrance hall connects street side to courtyard side; vertical point access, one or two units per floor; interior stairwell; some units accessed via exterior corridor; stairwells lit by windows.

Interior:

All of the service rooms in the apartments, such as the bathrooms, toilets, and kitchens, and the stairwell are located on the courtyard side so that the spacious living spaces can face south. On the individual levels, there are various constellations of flats and maisonette apartments, which are separated from one another by open spaces that run through the entire volume. This results in independent, individually designed units with a maximum of walls that receive natural light and varied outdoor spaces.

Exterior:

Terraces and loggias in various geometric forms; interior courtyard with greenery as common area on the ground floor.

Morphology:

The individuality of the units characterizes the housing concept and contributes to the design. Because the walls of the apartments that separate the spaces do not extend from floor to floor, but are separated from the ceilings like partition screens by means of a kind of overhead track lighting, the units are not only separated from each other on a plane but also from floor to floor. The building looks like a constellation of stacked modular buildings, an impression that is reinforced by varying the materials.

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