NOCKI

Munich, Germany

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NOCKI

Munich, Germany

Firm

leonardhautum

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2012

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

This project does not intend to preserve the historical building material just for the sake of it. The focus is more on preserving and allowing the beauty of the original building to be experienced daily while all the advantages of modern living are also enjoyed.

REUSE, EXTEND, AND ADD
This old tradition of the patch-worked 'Herbergshäusl' (workman’s cottages) shall be continued. The building fabric of the ruin had been heavily damaged, making it difficult to appreciate its intrinsic beauty. The hundred-years-old elements of the building didn't leave any doubt that as much of it as possible had to be saved.

A sculpture made of insulating exposed concrete is interwoven into the ruin. It expands the building by carving one room into the hillside, thereby opening the two formally separate apartments to light, air, and the occupants. The concrete sculpture replaces where it was impossible to preserve, fills found gaps, and lines the existing walls with a circular ring wall. The sculpture features the technical installations that are necessary to contemporary living; therefore, it is not only the structural, but also the technical, backbone of the house.