Description

Dream house #1, conceived as a prefabricated house, is laid out around a core with two autonomous spaces and a perimeter circulation corridor, whose neutral character lends itself to a multiplicity of uses. The location of the core allows for an individual interpretation of the floor plan with regard to functions, the different door types (white double doors for rooms, dark wooden sliding doors for bathrooms) enable the occupants to establish varying relationships between rooms as needed. To the exterior, the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors also allow for extreme openness.

The house has two levels, making it possible to divide the zones vertically if required. The stairs are located next to the entrance. The upper and lower level are identical in principle, with the ground floor also allowing for extending one room into the corridor (e.g., for cooking/dining). On the upper level, the rear section of the corridor can be divided off as an additional room for guests or as a library, etc. The corridor also accommodates the bathrooms, which can be used individually or linked, and which are directly accessible from the rooms. When the bathroom doors are closed, the room located at the core extends all the way to the exterior wall. With its surrounding corridor and variety of views even diagonally across the rooms, the house creates transparency and even a measure of chaos: it is up to the occupants to create quiet zones.

The floor plan options demonstrate only some of the potential internal room arrangements corresponding to different patterns of living.

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