The nature of the property invited the different areas of life to be stacked together. This is how the 3 meter high artist's studio and a covered terrace were created in the basement, partly nestled into the slope and partly on the same level as the garden.
Above, at street level, you can access the master bedroom and the children's rooms and the associated bathrooms. The entrance area and the garage with an inconspicuous garage door in the facade are also located on this level towards the street. The open internal staircase, from the studio to the attic, is accompanied by a glazed elevator. On the upper floor is the dining, kitchen and living area, which opens onto a large, partially covered terrace with a panoramic view of the garden side. An outside staircase leads directly to the garden with pool and guest house. The kitchen area faces the street, with a hidden dirty kitchen and a breakfast bar.
The attic, designed as a multimedia, study and music room, offers partially covered terraces facing the street and garden. On the garden side there is a floor-level “hammock” leading to the lower terrace. From here you can also reach the lower terrace via an outside staircase and from there directly into the garden.
The vertically connected open areas are designed like a kind of scaffolding made up of stairs, railings, openings and partial roofs and enable the residents to gradually acquire the outdoor areas.
The basement, which is half underground, and the garage are made of reinforced concrete, the floors above are made of wood, wall and ceiling elements made of cross-laminated timber, combined with partially visible steel construction. The use of untreated wood as a building material, including for parts of the interior and the rear-ventilated, pre-grayed wooden facade, underlines the sustainable and efficient concept of the building. House Max is almost self-sufficient thanks to integrated PV elements on the entire roof (Sun Skin, Eternit with battery storage), deep drillings and a heat pump.
Photographer: Hertha Hurnaus