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Studio House
Germany
Studio House, South Germany
Single person residence for a private client, 2007
Designed for a musician/healer in a remote village in the woodlands, this proposal breaks with the plan of a traditional local house. Rather than dividing the house into hall, kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, cellar and attic, it provides a single multi-functional space, folded in section, with exposed sanitary and kitchen objects.
In order to keep both construction and operating costs as low as possible, it was designed as a rather enclosed studio house with a minimum of partition walls and façade openings. Instead of proposing multiple windows per elevation it has only one large opening on three elevations and one skylight, each fitted with integrated roller blinds. In addition, there are secret doors and top-hung ventilation hatches with mirrors on the inside. When opened outwards, the mirrors reflect the flowers growing along the façade.
The Studio House is constructed with lightweight timber frames, clad with untreated larch boards of various colourations on the outside and bright birch plywood lining inside. Keeping the carbon footprint to a minimum by using local sawmills and timber contractors for pre-fabrication and erection, the design is highly sustainable and contemporary.
As a healer the client believes in the connection between magnetic radiation and well-being and originally intended to build an in-situ concrete house and to enrich the wet concrete mix with magnetic radiation before pouring it into the formwork. This led to the concept of using a product known as HEMCRETE® for insulation of the external walls. Being applied wet, the client believes that it allows for a similar treatment to concrete for which he invented a special magnetic appliance to be fixed around the end of the pump hose.
One of the key features of the house is the grand staircase that stretches from one side to the other, becoming more of a stepped floor than purely an element for changing levels. Not only can the steps be inhabited, for example by using them as a small auditorium, a bookshelf, for plants or as a bedside table on the lower level, they also serve as the only partitioning element in the folded space. An integrated hydraulic hatch, which when closed forms a normal part of the staircase, provides access to the more private lower level. Usually open, it can be closed when patients or visitors are expected.
Spatially, the house works like an extruded long-section, meaning that, in plan, all spaces apart from the slender utility zone with entrance lobby, fitted cupboard, shower and toilet, have the same width. This internal condition is expressed by asymmetric gables, which, contrary to the neighbouring houses, are on the long sides of the house rather than the short ends. Internally, the pitch follows the necessary headroom above the four split-levels and provides the house with very different room heights and qualities. In fact, the house is more about 'pitched shape' than 'pitched roof'. This is emphasized by using the same cladding on all sides which makes the house appear very monolithic. Its slightly inclined ground line follows the soft slope of the landscape.
The oddly shaped and long plot of land is landscaped to enable the resident to live a self-sufficient life. The aesthetically wild garden includes tall hedges and bushes along its boundary, as well as vegetable patches and meadows with fruit trees in the centre. Chickens, ducks, sheep and goats live freely all over the place and provide the resident with eggs and milk.
Single person residence for a private client, 2007
Designed for a musician/healer in a remote village in the woodlands, this proposal breaks with the plan of a traditional local house. Rather than dividing the house into hall, kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, cellar and attic, it provides a single multi-functional space, folded in section, with exposed sanitary and kitchen objects.
In order to keep both construction and operating costs as low as possible, it was designed as a rather enclosed studio house with a minimum of partition walls and façade openings. Instead of proposing multiple windows per elevation it has only one large opening on three elevations and one skylight, each fitted with integrated roller blinds. In addition, there are secret doors and top-hung ventilation hatches with mirrors on the inside. When opened outwards, the mirrors reflect the flowers growing along the façade.
The Studio House is constructed with lightweight timber frames, clad with untreated larch boards of various colourations on the outside and bright birch plywood lining inside. Keeping the carbon footprint to a minimum by using local sawmills and timber contractors for pre-fabrication and erection, the design is highly sustainable and contemporary.
As a healer the client believes in the connection between magnetic radiation and well-being and originally intended to build an in-situ concrete house and to enrich the wet concrete mix with magnetic radiation before pouring it into the formwork. This led to the concept of using a product known as HEMCRETE® for insulation of the external walls. Being applied wet, the client believes that it allows for a similar treatment to concrete for which he invented a special magnetic appliance to be fixed around the end of the pump hose.
One of the key features of the house is the grand staircase that stretches from one side to the other, becoming more of a stepped floor than purely an element for changing levels. Not only can the steps be inhabited, for example by using them as a small auditorium, a bookshelf, for plants or as a bedside table on the lower level, they also serve as the only partitioning element in the folded space. An integrated hydraulic hatch, which when closed forms a normal part of the staircase, provides access to the more private lower level. Usually open, it can be closed when patients or visitors are expected.
Spatially, the house works like an extruded long-section, meaning that, in plan, all spaces apart from the slender utility zone with entrance lobby, fitted cupboard, shower and toilet, have the same width. This internal condition is expressed by asymmetric gables, which, contrary to the neighbouring houses, are on the long sides of the house rather than the short ends. Internally, the pitch follows the necessary headroom above the four split-levels and provides the house with very different room heights and qualities. In fact, the house is more about 'pitched shape' than 'pitched roof'. This is emphasized by using the same cladding on all sides which makes the house appear very monolithic. Its slightly inclined ground line follows the soft slope of the landscape.
The oddly shaped and long plot of land is landscaped to enable the resident to live a self-sufficient life. The aesthetically wild garden includes tall hedges and bushes along its boundary, as well as vegetable patches and meadows with fruit trees in the centre. Chickens, ducks, sheep and goats live freely all over the place and provide the resident with eggs and milk.
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