011 Apartment / flipê arquitetura

Our look through references from the past is revisited today. This is the essence of apartment 011; transform elements and history into a new language of its own, honoring the past and being a new creative generation.

ROOT Apartments / idArchitekt.innen + AETAL.

On the Rootacker in Stetten, a development structure is proposed that corresponds to the existing neighborhood of single-family houses. The sloping site is occupied by three apartment buildings, which follow the natural course of the terrain. Although the desired density is achieved, the gradation leaves enough space between the buildings and allows an unobstructed view over the valley. Each of the three houses includes five bright flats with different sizes and floor plans. They all have in common an orientation towards the view and a fluid sequence of rooms.

Transformation House / HGA Henning Grahn Architektur

The existing building from the 1970s is part of a settlement, which is affected by the same building type of houses. These prototypes are placed more or less without regard to their orientation, the terrain, or the position of next-door houses. As two of the facades are windowless the house reminds more of a row house than of a free-standing house. Besides this, the house lacks a functional floor plan for contemporary living:

Architecture Not to Scale: Viewing the Familiar With an Unfamiliar Eye

Scale is a term that has dominated the architectural profession for as long as built structures have existed. In the literal sense, scale defines the measurable standards that we have come to know and accept —the widths of door frames, a car turn radius, and of course, a means of producing measurable drawings. In a more abstract and figurative representation, scale describes a feeling of individual experiences when comparing themselves or a familiar object to something unfamiliar.

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