Description

Access:

Exterior access; separate staircases for the apartments arranged around the building volume.

Interior:

The neighborhood has single-family homes with gardens. In order to relate to that, an ensemble of four distinct, freestanding volumes was planned. In the first construction phase, an apartment building with five nested apartments, each of which has separate external access, was built on the southeast corner of the lot. The dividing walls on each floor are arranged differently. Thanks to a variety of connections to the floor above or below, the units intersect spatially. Each of the apartments has openings of different sizes that provide views of the surroundings on three sides, which creates a sense of living in a single-family home.

Exterior:

Loggia spaces and terraces for the semi-basement; loggias adjacent to living room and kitchen; roof terraces.

Morphology:

These residential cubes are characterized by loggias cut out of the volume and take up the form of the lot. The design is the result of the interplay of autonomous elements, for example, different colors and surfaces of the plastered facades or seemingly randomly arranged windows and exterior stairs facing in different directions. This gives the facades a heterogeneous spatial character; the differences ensure there is no clear front or back side.

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