Westend-Zschokkestrasse Munich

The buildings, organized as multi-storey structures, are accessed from a central stairwell located in the depth of each building. The apartments are arranged around it. The square grid does not tolerate classic corridor/room layouts. Rooms fit next to rooms. The functions can be distributed flexibly throughout the apartment. The private outdoor areas also become part of this structure and can be used as external rooms to extend the living space in summer.

The grid of the building volumes, initially conceived as a polygonal basic form, leads to the dissolution of the façade fronts. The offsets allow a large interlocking with the exterior space and a variety of references from the interior to the surroundings.

Despite their size, the volumes appear to the outside as pavilion-like structures. In this way, the prefabricated timber façade elements also demonstrate their underlying grid structure and thus the lightness of the basic construction.