Housing Building With 7 Units by Metaform Architecture
Metaform Architecture have designed a small apartment building in Luxembourg with 7 living units.
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Project description
A discreet and reduced architecture with hidden openings based on a compact and pure volume. One of the main intentions of the project consists in the insertion of a residential building with 7 living units in its direct surroundings, marked by detached and solitary buildings in an suburban context. The use of a single light coloured material (fibre-cement panels) for the façade gives the building a monolithic aspect and preserves the quiet appearance. The composition of the different volumes merged to the continuous grid of the façade blurs the clear differentiation of the stacked floors, indeed often characteristic for an multi-storey housing project.
Each window has been individually conceived in order to frame different viewports or to manage the supply of natural lighting for the interior spaces. These lightly hidden openings play a major role in the desired sculptural image of this realization. The goal was to avoid the simple duplication of identical dwelling units. Here, densification is thought through individuality and this customisation following the wishes of the clients appears as the finalization of this work.
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Architects: Metaform Architecture
Photography: Steve Troes fotodesign
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Katrina Maksimuk on 08 Jan 2013 at 5:14 pm #
The exterior looks out of place, but the interior is incredible!
No No on 09 Jan 2013 at 4:17 pm #
Wow! I love it.
OK, maybe the “suite privacy” door to the mini-hallway in apartments 1, 3, & 6 could be a slider. Also note on the architect’s website the blinds are on the windows, so you could actually take a shower in apartment 2, despite the neighbor you can see up the hill! Their website also shows a pool in the back yard, and lists total building volume of 4.200m³.
Pretty amazing space planning, but… Can’t read the scale; wonder how small those apartments are? Yet clearly the interior build-out requires that “persons of means” live there — are there Luxembourgers who can afford that building quality yet wish to live cheek-by-jowl?
ronel on 19 Jan 2013 at 11:34 pm #
what is the material on the facade of the building?