Description

Access:

Building connections and entrance hall with mailboxes on ground floor; external access gallery separated from the volume of the building; interior stairwell; not organization around a center; lighting in the stairwells from the entry doors and facade elements.

Interior space:

The concept for the building was to define a clear structure within which as broad a spectrum of individually formulated apartments as possible could be formulated. An interior core of wet cells and a supply shaft occupies the main focus of the living space and makes it possible to organize the floor plan and living concept as flexibly as possible.

Exterior space:

Balconies for communal use on the external access gallery; common terraces; apartments with private loggias.

Morphology:

In terms of access, the shelf system of prefabricated concrete parts conceived for the volume determines the design. The spatial organization of this structure for access is highly differentiated, thanks to wider, balcony-like spaces, bridge elements, and vertical shifts, thus offering various communal public spaces. On the “private” side of the building, the structure of the overall form is made rhythmic and more differentiated by means of bay windows, French doors, and loggias that recede from the line of the facade.

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