Description

A simply unusual, unusually simple floor plan: per floor, the stairs provide access to only one of three identical units. The elongated apartment is divided into a private and a common area by a wall in the middle. The division of the floor area is effected simply by placing various elements along the middle wall. There is no need for a hallway. The kitchen and loggia are located at the entrance.

The continuous windows give the kitchen a clear view of the living room, dominated to the rear by an open fireplace. A bathroom core serves as a dividing element for the private half of the unit. The bathroom’s cabin-like sliding walls separate and connect the two bedrooms. The loggia is suspended in front of the facade like a separate room or body. The ribbons of windows along both longitudinal sides of the building bathe the interior in light.

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Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.