SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Bruchsal, Germany
TYPE
Residential › Private House
This house for a young family with two kids is located in a centre-near development area of Bruchsal, a county seat town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The existing and the new environment is very heterogenic, dense and colorful and the only free building ground was a narrow leftover area beside an already built semi-detached house.
Only the availabil-ity and the location near by the city-centre decided the choice of the construction site.
BUT WHY IS THE HOUSE RED (SANG-DE-BOEUF)?
The local city-laws demanded a red tile roof in this area.
To give the building a sculptural presence and a poetic form, we decided to let wall, roof and all the details have a monochrome color in sang-de-boeuf, coming from the well picket tile roof color.
This seemingly strong color provides a bit of coolness and settlement in this crowdie and colorful place and strengthens its identity.
Besides, we could widen the usable living area by giving up the usual roof overhang and still making a precise roof fitting to the neighbor.
The resulting variance to the house row leads to a significant individuality of the house and, in spite of two corners, it now has four.
To improve the proportion of the house, the chimney was placed as a vertical element to the gable-front.
A service-box for wood, trash and bikes separates the lower entrance-level and the higher garden-level by smart using the natural topography.
Due to as well being located in a river-flood area, the house was constructed in reinforced concrete and the low entrance level was built “waterproof”.
All openings in this level can be protected and sealed to minimize damage in case of a flood (hopefully never needed…).
The advantage of this level configuration is the generation of valuable living space.
In this case, providing the children’s area on entry-level.
Blank steel at the fireplace, stainless steel-mesh in the stairwell and well set color accents create atmospherically moods…
