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Article from issue 1/2001 »Concrete Construction«

House in Berlin

documentation p. 52 - 56
Architect OIKOS Herrle, Peter und Stoll, Werner | Structural Engineer Wilhelm und Wulle |

Drafts
Ground floor plan/Upper floor plan 1:200
Part section 1:20
Section 1:200
Site plan 1:1000
Vertical section through facade 1:20

The house consists of two tracts linked by a glazed intermediate zone. On the ground floor is a self-contained flat. The narrow, northern tract in concrete accommodates the entrance area and service rooms. The living spaces are housed in the pitched-roofed timber tract to thesouth. The facade to this tract consists of 8-metre-high prefabricated timber-framed elements clad internally and externally with horizontal larch strips. This is echoed by the cladding to the set-back end faces of the concrete tract. The use of concrete and timber dominates internally, too. An exposed-concrete staircase leads up to a first-floor gallery. The clear external articulation is thus reflected inside the house.