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Architects: Triendl und fessler architekten
- Area: 230 m²
- Year: 2008
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Photographs:Günther Wett
Text description provided by the architects. Near the Alpine town of Innsbruck and only a few curves on the road away from ski jump Bergisel, the work of Zaha Hadid, the duo of young architects triendl and fessler have designed a house for two families, which autonomously markedly stands out from its surroundings.
![Two in one house / Triendl und fessler architekten - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/4fdf/c169/0bfa/0f7a/fb00/0014/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1414001919)
'We did not want to cut much grass', the clients jokingly explain their motives for construction of this two-in-one house. They did not see the immediate neighbourhood as threatening danger at all. The plot of 1500 m2, however, did have a complex topography: 'The plot is very long and narrow, therefore it was soon clear that we were supposed to arrange the building like a chain, in order to be able to direct it toward the south', say Karin Triendl and Patrick Fessler.
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Apart from the size of the building and the existence of two entrances, nothing on the outside indicates the fact that this straight-lined building corpus is a house for two families. The sequence of movement is simple: past the garage with plenty of room for storing 'Alpine' vehicles, from mountain bikes to motocross machines, along a single wall behind which there is a sheltered patio, past houses A and B into the garden.
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