Description
The problem of north-south orientation is solved here with a mixture of apartments and maisonettes. On the lower level, the stairwells provide access to two apartments and two maisonettes, and on the upper level to two apartments. The two forms of housing are combined in such a way so that the maisonettes could be aligned only to the south and the apartments from north to south. The diagonal stairwell of the maisonettes slides into the flats so that the hallway is bent and narrowed (thus isolating the small bedroom hallway) while the living area is cleverly expanded. All apartments and maisonettes have two baths; the apartments have balconies to the south, the maisonettes feature balconies on both levels. The ground-floor apartments have private gardens.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
General layout – ground and 2nd floor
Typical layout of the 4-room apartments and 3-room duplex apartments, scale 1:200
5-room apartments of upper stories, scale 1:200
Cross section
Photos
Street façade
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.