Instead of a run-down property, which consisted of a wide variety of extensions, a single-family house with about 300 square meters of living space was to be built. The property is located in the outdoor area. It was an essential requirement of the approval authority not to change the original ridge height and the building width and length compared to the old house. In order to obtain a well-lit house on the garden side on the upper floor, the ridge line was moved to the south. This made it possible to form two sufficiently high storeys while maintaining the same ridge height. An asymmetrical gable roof is created, which with its one-sided roof overhang seeks a reference to typologies that are common in the region.
The building is a solid construction made of perforated bricks with a foamed facing shell made of solid bricks. All surfaces of the interiors were covered with gypsum plaster. The solid construction method is also continued in the roof: a highly insulated, rear-ventilated roof was built on the sloping prefabricated brick ceiling. Used, natural double seam tiles were used for the roof covering. Its yellowish color corresponds to the tone of the slurry façade.
In terms of floor plan, the building essentially consists of approximately equivalent individual rooms that are lined up along the access zones. The house stands on a circumferential base made of Eichstätt lime sandstone and divides the property into a garden side and an entrance side with a garage and a driveway yard.
The façade is a reflection on the irregularity and play of light of traditionally plastered masonry surfaces. The aim was to find a surface that would geometrize the artisanal coincidences and thus make them manufacturable. The façade was provided with a corn-yellow plaster slurry, the colour of which is repeated in the roof and plinth.
Source: HildundK
Photos: Michael Heinrich
Publications:
☛ L'architecture d'auhourd'hui
☛ Publication Deutsche Bauzeitung
☛ a+u
☛ German Construction Magazine
☛ Oasis 65
☛ S AM
