Two in one house , 2009
Near the alpine town of Innsbruck and only a few curves on the road away from ski jump Bergisel, the work of Zaha Hadid, a house for two families, which autonomously markedly stands out from its surroundings. We did not want to cut much grass', the clients jokingly explain their motives for construction of this two-in-one house. They did not see the immediate neighbourhood as threatening danger at all. Due to the long and narrow 1500m2 plot, the building is arranged like a chain in order to direct it towards the south. Apart from the size of the building and the existence of two entrances, nothing on the outside indicates the fact that this straight-lined building corpus is a house for two families. The sequence of movement is simple: past the garage with plenty of room for storing 'Alpine' vehicles, from mountain bikes to motocross machines, along a single wall behind which there is a sheltered patio, past houses A and B into the garden.