Single-Family House in Tuttlingen

Issue
10/2019 Hybrid Forms of Construction
Author
Claudia Fuchs
Source
DETAIL
Task
New construction
Location
Germany, Tuttlingen
Architecture
Yonder – Architektur und Design
Two intersecting reinforced concrete walls form the load-bearing structure of the house. The outer walls, in a timber-frame construction, are clad in black plastic fabric.
© Brigida González
On an undeveloped plot of land in the centre of Tuttlingen-Möhringen, surrounded on all sides by buildings with pitched roofs, the architects created a single-family house as an urban-compaction scheme. Just as surprising as the asymmetric form of the structure and its black polythene fabric outer skin are the layout on plan and the hybrid form of construction. The load-bearing...
Two intersecting reinforced concrete walls form the load-bearing structure of the house. The outer walls, in a timber-frame construction, are clad in black plastic fabric.
© Brigida González