Description
Access:
Entrance halls situated on alternating sides of the ends of the building; vertical point access, two units per floor; interior stairwell; stairwells lit by skylights.
Interior:
The apartments extend through the entire depth of the building in a Z-shaped form, consisting of entrance, kitchen, dining/living room. This flowing but composed spatial figure completes and contrasts with the private area with bathroom/toil and the individual rooms. The comb-like arrangement of the bedrooms around a hall differentiates the space even further.
Exterior:
Balconies; garden apartments with private gardens.
Morphology:
The urban-planning requirement of placing the buildings at an angle to the street, the articulation of the volumes, and the use of materials makes these staggered residential slab buildings an important component of the neighborhood. The staggering is volumetrically striking: the balconies are freed up diagonally from the floor plan, an arrangement that eliminates the parallelism of the rows and offers the apartments an orientation toward and prospect of the spaces in between. The horizontal and vertical staggering and the alternating lining up or mirroring helps eliminate the severity and even monotony of repetitive slab buildings.
Exterior view
Interior view
Drawings
Originally published in: Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Höllbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Ulrike Wietzorrek, Typology +: Innovative Residential Architecture, Birkhäuser, 2009.