Description

Access:

Access hall in the center of the building from the second floor upward; interior corridor around the hall area with interior stairwell; hall lit by skylight.

Interior space:

The dynamic of the volumes of the main building is continued inside: after passing through the main entrance at the tip, one climbs the stairs to the central hall, which extends up to the top floor. In the apartments, one passes through a corridor, which receives no natural light, from which the individual rooms and the bathrooms and storage rooms are accessed, into the living/dining hall with kitchen units on one side. This main room usually has a spacious balcony or terrace extending its entire width.

Exterior space:

Balconies, roof terraces.

Morphology:

This ensemble of buildings occupies an intersection of important streets, paths, and lines of sight that crisscross the new residential neighborhood Roombeek, and its vivid, plastic form does justice to this emphasized urban position. The dynamically terraced main volumes reach a climax that is deliberately directed toward the heart of the neighborhood, evoking associations with a mountain or a wave. The stepped brick facade and the darker base with its vertical brickwork reveal the building as an autonomous phenomenon in the context of the neighboring buildings.

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