Forestview House / Atelier st

Mar 2010

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Architects: Atelier st
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Directors in Charge: Silvia Schellenberg- Thaut & Sebastian Thaut
Collaborator: Ludwig Uphues
Client: Gaedtke Family
Structural Engineer: Mittenzwei GmbH, Werdau
Project Area: 186 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2009
Photographs: Bertram Bölkow

General

In a uniform, from florid preroofs and cultivations stamped residential area, the clearly formed volume emits rest and presence. All cultivations and overhangs it was renounced. The garage was integrated unobtrusively into the building sculpture.

The rectangular and narrow construction body is cut in the ground floor and is bent. This incision forms a protected, roofed input area and separates at the same time internal functional areas in his crease points.

situation plan

The prescribed roof inclination of the land-use plan was moved in theirs lower (22 °) and upper (48 °) to maximum values. With this interpretation of the editions arises, with the running around same eaves high and a suitable building width, an optimum exposure of the southern roof surfaces.

Facade

Thoroughly on the rural surroundings and the nearness to the nature the dwelling house, including the roof is wrapped up, totally in fine larch timber profiles. The structure and surface of the wood changes optically, according to weather and season. In the course of the time the facade of beige, brown, silver-grey about itself will change sometime totally to a dark grey whole appearance. To all colour default of the land-use plan are carried therefore calculation.

In the teamwork between surface-terse, vaporized solar protection glasses and deep facade incisions an atmospheric facade rich in tension originates thus between lifestyle, ecology and permanence.

Sustainability

By the primary application of natural and postawake send to raw materials the building does justice to the ecological basic idea and explicit wish the developer.

The low energy house consciously renounces on traditionelle heating system. The power demand is covered only by a solar arrangement on the roof and the application of a water use chimney which supplies the rejected heat by a heat accumulator to the building again.

To reduce the warm losses, the external heat insulation on 180 mm (warm leading group 0.35) was raised.

Interior

The ascetic and on the essential things diminished also finds in the inside area his continuation. Beside a reserved creation mediates the inside, nevertheless, above all security and warmth.

The complicated spatial relations which particularly are effective by probably placed openings to the outside space originate from the deliberate change of differently high rooms, cut galleries and low functional areas.

A wing-smoothed, yellow screed ground underlines at all levels, as a homogeneous floor material the special spatial atmosphere.

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: © Bertram Bölkow

: situation plan

: ground floor plan

: second floor plan

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: section 02

: details

* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "Forestview House / Atelier st" 11 Mar 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/52051>

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Nick Downes says:

Loving this house… RT @archdaily: Forestview House / Atelier st http://archdai.ly/bNdFnO #architecture

# March 11, 2010 at 14:05

roadkill says:

if they got that camera any lower we would be seeing some worms! It is well finished but nothing new or innovative.

The lawn looks in very good shape!

# March 11, 2010 at 15:26

Thomas says:

F**k “innovative”… This house rocks!

# March 11, 2010 at 16:03

blackstone says:

it’s ok, but in such a simple house one would expect the details to be much better resolved. and it’s one thing to camouflage the garage door, but to essentially conceal the front door is perverse.

# March 11, 2010 at 17:37

badfuture says:

very nicely done. i don’t think anything is lacking in the details. the comment above troubles me for some reason. i cannot figure out if i agree or not about the front door. blackstone, do you mean that in this instance it is perverse to conceal the front door or in any instance? If you mean any instance your comment just got all the more intriguing to me. the entrance is delineated, which is one thing, but for some reason we need a door with arrows all over it?

sweet cad graphics by the way.

# March 11, 2010 at 19:10

i’m troubled by the little strips of siding above the ground floor fenestration, for example.
as to the door, traditional architecture almost invariably makes a significant event of the front door. so did lecorbusier for that matter. i don’t think ‘arrows’ are required, but to intentionally design it ‘away’ strikes me as being completely wrong-headed. to be honest, i wasn’t sure where it was until i looked at the plan.

# March 11, 2010 at 19:53

yeah says:

When it comes to single family homes the entrance should just appeal to owners – if they want it hidden then lecorbousier has nothing to do with it. It’s enough that they know where it is.

BUT I think this time it’s not even the case, because I knew where the entrance was from the first glance – under the roof.
I think the break in the volume makes it very clear. It’s subtle but not too subtle to find it. I think it must be only you this time.

# March 12, 2010 at 04:03

Nicholas Patten says:

I'd Live Here: Forestview House. http://bit.ly/bq0ggR

# March 11, 2010 at 23:47

WPstudios says:

RT @nicholaspatten I'd Live Here: Forestview House. http://bit.ly/bq0ggR

# March 11, 2010 at 23:48

naturally they can do whatever the hell they want, but that doesn’t make it meritorious. architecture is ultimately a public language and needs to achieve some level of legibility even in a house, and this is clearly a ‘public’ facade which addresses the street and is intended to be understand primarily by folks OTHER than the owners. yes, the break in the volume is the fundamental gesture of entry– but then the effort to disguise the door and make it disappear contradicts that intent. sorry, but it’s just a dumb move.

# March 12, 2010 at 08:58

bruno says: