Description

Three houses situated relatively close to each other. The facade, evenly broken down by floor-high windows, makes it impossible to deduce the true inner arrangement of the house. A central stairwell with skylights allows access to four apartments on every landing.

The symmetrically placed doors conceal, surprisingly, apartments of different sizes: made possible by shifting a separating wall within the pattern established by the windows – one room per window – by one room module. Thus, two 3-room apartments become a 2- and a 4-room apartment. The bedrooms are aligned along a corridor remaining private, whereby the round bathroom guides the visitor straight into the living space. The living rooms with kitchens and loggias are situated in the four corners of the building. On the ground floor are three 2-room apartments and various kinds of ancillary rooms.

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