275,00 M² NET EFFECTIVE AREA
1.063,00 M³ GROSS VOLUME
The surrounding settlements have clearly been constructed in the post
war area – tiny, one-storied, lined-up detached single-family houses,
having been enlarged and niced-up a bit over the past decades, but unfortunately
in a rather petty-minded way. Buildings reflecting the lives of their
inhabitants embedded in the poverty and hardship of wartime. The whole
unit on the one hand asks for a new, different design and ambitious creative
architecture, on the other hand demands respect and acceptance of the
economic and social features of the surroundings.
The connected one-piece ground floor is characteristic of the town-planning
concept of the neighbourhood and was supposed to be preserved. However,
now the construction is twisted in the upper floors and breaks the grounds
for a new urbanistic approach - a comb-like structure of the settlement.
Inside the construction an interesting space allocation plan is hidden.
On the two floors two accommodation units have been executed completely
differently not only because of their differences in size but also in
style. Living in the garden is contrasted with generous open spaces on
the terrace, the one-storied arrangement of rooms on the ground floor
is supplemented by the maisonette-like converging of the interior spaces
on the upper floor - uniting and separating in a tolerating and inspiring
kind of way.
A house having offered many interesting ideas for design, which had to be thought through from scratch in order to successfully realise both wishes and needs.
