WER House
The task was to construct a detached house in the best inner-city location.
The plot to be built on rises by about the height of one storey from the northern boundary, where the access
road runs, to the south and it opens to the south on to a level area. One major aim of the design was to create
an optimum sequence of rooms from the public to the private to provide the highest possible spatial quality in
each phase.
The building itself consists of an east-west orientated two-storey base divided by a projecting roof that separates
it from the street and protects it to the south and on top of that a north-south running single-storey gable-ended
roof construction that minimises the view from the house to the west and forms a protective roof over the
terrace. The building fits into its urban environment in that the roof shape and the building line match its
surroundings.
The route through the building is intended to create a series of different spatial moods. The hall in the basement
was designed as a cave-like interior space in a positive sense. The warm, dark colour scheme accentuates the
feeling of “coming home” and it emphasises the light falling from top to bottom in the area of the single-flight
stairway. The wall in the area of the stairs was designed as light with a reflecting surface to further increase the
play of light.
Via the stairs you reach the open-plan living area storey that is designed as a flowing space between the inside
and the outside but still protected from view. The wall structure of the stairway is extended into the exterior
space. This creates a flowing transition between inside and outside. Via another stairway you come to the most
intimate and private areas of the house, the bedrooms and the bath area.
For maintenance purposes you can reach the garden level along the eastern boundary. There is storage space
for garden tools built into the wall at the garden level. The canopied spaces provide areas protected from the
weather and from view.
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KURT KUBALL
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1060 Wien
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