Award-winning living in Wilhelminian Style House
S.DREI Architektur wins the best architects award in the category
Interior Finishings
A young family finds an apartment in need of
rehabilitation, with potential in a Wilhelminian Style House in Graz. Architect, Armin
Stocker (S.DREI Architektur, Graz) takes over the rehabilitation and renovation of the
apartment called ?Appartement 8? in an old historic building, and shortly after
gets awarded with the label ?best architects 10!?A stroke of luck for the
executing architects and clients. However way you look at it, the award-winning
project proves that with luck you also need a lot of Know How and passion for
detail.
The long deserted 135m2 apartment required cautious
intervention, in order to create the perfect living space for its future
residents. A prerequisite from the client was most importantly to create a
place for art and literature, which meant well-thought-out, reasoned solutions
for appealing storage space including recreational area. S.DREI Architektur
found the solution in combining the entrance cloakroom, library, kitchen
fixtures and lingering areas. The dinning room got extended through an all year
round useable loggia, amplifying the living room simultaneously. In contrast
are the bedrooms, which were kept compact thus enabling a more generous
creation of space for the communal areas. The basic tint white dominates all
the surfaces in the apartment and creates the appropriate framework for
designer furniture, contemporary art and antique clavier. It also enables the
reflection from the courtyard greenery to seem like a painting filtering
through its windows.
Armin Stocker and his partner Walter
Sametinger amalgamated in 2002 and founded S.DREI
Architektur. Their office is situated in the inner city of Graz, and is managed with 6 members of staff
that are allured by their innovative project attentiveness. And the best
architects award proves their concept right. The award sums down the best
architects within the german spoken regions. This year out of 228 submissions,
a total of 43 outstanding architectural projects, divided into five categories
were awarded. S.DREI Architektur received the best architects award in the category
Interior Finishings for their project Appartement 8.
Not only the contentment of the client but also the
award and label ?best architects 10?is a confirmation of the credit well due to
S.DREI Architektur for their successful conversion and cautious revitalisation
of an object with highest architectural niveau.