Description

Access:

Corridor system with widened areas; stairs and galleries between the building volumes produce a communicative, semipublic access area, which is neither covered nor heated; stairwells and corridors lit from above.

Interior:

The design of the access areas encourages communication, which is important for the conception of this residential building, which offers apartments primarily to singles and small families. After one passes through the service zone, which has small openings into the access area, the living spaces extend along the outer wall, sometimes oriented toward only one side, sometimes diagonally toward two sides, and are continued by the loggias. In the larger units, the bedrooms are accessed by a stairway from the living room.

Exterior:

Loggias, attached to the living rooms and occupying the full width of the space.

Morphology:

The roofs of the complex, with their folded ridges and edges, recall the roof landscape of Rovinj’s old town, with its varied surfaces and textures. The plastered, gray-painted volumes are articulated by seemingly randomly placed areas of green and ocher yellow paint around the windows. They recall the colors of a karst, of vineyards and vines.

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