The dark grey stucco and sharp-edged aesthetics ensure that a house for a family with three children on Munich’s southwest side is recognisable from afar as new construction. The master plan specified the allowable cubage and the type of roof. The architects developed the building massing with carefully positioned openings of varying dimensions, which articulate the relationship between inside and outside and form four very different facades. The cut-outs give the house its sculptural quality: an elongated recess shelters the entrance and the threshold to the kitchen.
A cut-out on the southwest corner gives rise to a covered seating area and opens up the living area toward the garden. Last but not least, an opening in the upper level creates a loggia above the extensively glazed, double-height central space where the house’s circulation is concentrated. From the entrance, the path leads around the stair to the living room, where a narrow window and a bench that visually extends from the interior to the exterior gestures back to the entrance area.
A ribbon of windows extending to the floor shields the interior from the neighbouring property. On the upper level the southeast facade has no openings; the bathrooms behind it receive daylight from prism-like skylights. On the gable ends the tri-partite windows provide a contrast to the dark, rough stucco surfaces of the thermal insulation composite system.
A cut-out on the southwest corner gives rise to a covered seating area and opens up the living area toward the garden. Last but not least, an opening in the upper level creates a loggia above the extensively glazed, double-height central space where the house’s circulation is concentrated. From the entrance, the path leads around the stair to the living room, where a narrow window and a bench that visually extends from the interior to the exterior gestures back to the entrance area.
A ribbon of windows extending to the floor shields the interior from the neighbouring property. On the upper level the southeast facade has no openings; the bathrooms behind it receive daylight from prism-like skylights. On the gable ends the tri-partite windows provide a contrast to the dark, rough stucco surfaces of the thermal insulation composite system.