Residence House in Zwickau, Germany
A gentle ridge of Cainsdorfer local situation can be seen just high over the river meadow where you see a sharp edged of residence house rising there. The house uses the available hillside calm and generous property, and this contrast by his clear measurements which are consciously and amazingly strikingly and impressive with the grown landscape around the place.
The Town planning of the area available has been made to adapt itself in a relatively cubic course in the heterogeneous outskirts of the situation. The scale of the mostly always empty and lone constructs of the place and its surroundings will transform it into a solitaire kind of construction in the place.
However, simply by the clear and precise form of the structure, the big and single openings and the material that is made of extremely smooth and fine concrete façade, all this changes the house and the usual picture of the surroundings.
The house is built from a single rock, called a monolith, with Ferro-concrete construction that also includes a nuclear insulated structure for secure living. Also, there was a topmost demand made for good concrete quality to provide highly demanding view of the outer wall. A two ply and extremely slim external wall strength was achieved in a dimension that is as small as 15 cm. The camouflage of the building interiors in the facade was implemented using anodized aluminum wall boards.
(via contemporist) Residence designer:Atelier ST Photography by Bertram Bölkow
