Rühlstrasse House

Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton

RÜHLSTRASSE HOUSE

Alex Lehnerer Architekten

CATEGORY
Houses

YEAR
2020

AREA
330 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Tobias Wootton

LOCATION
Germany

The house at the edge of the forest is located in a typical 1960s German bungalow settlement.

Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton

All on one floor, with large, partly inhabited roofs. Before, there was also a bungalow of the family's grandmother, with a hipped roof and low eaves, which was always present both inside and out.

The hipped roof originates from this local idea. With the eaves as the horizon in front of the vertical forest.

Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton

Inside it was to be a counter-design to the zoned living concept of the grandparents, with its former separation into representative and private areas.

Therefore, the three children's rooms stand around the living area like on a campground. The parents live upstairs. The open ground floor is surrounded by the children.

Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton

Sliding doors lead from each room to the outside, and virtually every element of the floor plan can be walked around. Construction is in in-situ concrete, on which the roof wave floats.

The slightly inclined stairs form the central, concentrated moment of the house. With the 15m long joist at the front, it supports the upper floor.

Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton


Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton
Rühlstrasse House
© Tobias Wootton


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