Stone H / Gus Wüstemann Architects

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Text description provided by the architects. Program and context The site is located in the district 6 in the city of Zurich, originally a residential neighborhood with large gardens. The project was an apartment building with three rental apartments, one apartment on the ground floor with a garden, an apartment in the middle, due to the slope with a garden too and on the top floor a duplex penthouse. The wanted the living rooms to be outside rooms with maximum views and optimal exposure to receive the light. This while keeping the upmost privacy in the dense Context of the city. Therefore the goal was to achieve spaces you normally only get in private houses, but not in an apartment building. Another topic we follow here, is to leave the context of the house in the architectural connotation. Not the facade, as separation between inside and outside, so the tempered space, generates volumetric face of the building, but a figure independent from the heated space, generates presence and power.