DWELLING SITE MICHAEL - PACHERSTRASSE
DWELLING HOUSE
DECEMBER 1999
4.300 M² TA
4.300 M² TA
The premise can be called a typical fill-in of a district from the sixties, in which loosely distributed public buildings are situated. The project intends to make visible the existent, but not always recognizable qualities of the surroundings in doing so with minimal efforts, so as not to deviate from the basic building situation. From all this results a building like a longish bar, variously structured and subdivided.
By choosing a building type with two apartments per floor (“Zweispänner") a modern type of a dwelling house has been achieved, which offers in its totality equal dwelling space of a height quality. The cross-wall construction type of the concept permits the greatest possible variability of the ground plan and leads to east-west orientated ground plans. The east facade with its belt windows as well as the west facade with its apertures broad and as high as the ceilings copy the basic concept of the cross-wall construction type. The ground floor forms a critical intersection between privacy and publicity.
This challenge could be met by raising the ground floor over the street level. The necessary intimacy and shutting-off towards outside pedestrians was thus achieved. The two uppermost storeys house large marionette-type flats with terraces in the intersections and on the roof.
In spite of the large dimensions of the project a vast lawn plus orchard in front of the house was planned and by its elevation over the ground filled with a private atmosphere
By choosing a building type with two apartments per floor (“Zweispänner") a modern type of a dwelling house has been achieved, which offers in its totality equal dwelling space of a height quality. The cross-wall construction type of the concept permits the greatest possible variability of the ground plan and leads to east-west orientated ground plans. The east facade with its belt windows as well as the west facade with its apertures broad and as high as the ceilings copy the basic concept of the cross-wall construction type. The ground floor forms a critical intersection between privacy and publicity.
This challenge could be met by raising the ground floor over the street level. The necessary intimacy and shutting-off towards outside pedestrians was thus achieved. The two uppermost storeys house large marionette-type flats with terraces in the intersections and on the roof.
In spite of the large dimensions of the project a vast lawn plus orchard in front of the house was planned and by its elevation over the ground filled with a private atmosphere
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