The numerous protrusions and recesses of the geometrically complex roof volume create a highly dynamic interior space. The balconies can be accessed through numerous doors. This results in additional connections between the different areas of the roof extension. Room-height panorama windows draw the cityscape into the apartment’s most appealing place, the central living area. A spatial element with painted white finish combines gallery and fireplace and illuminates the roof space. The flowing spatial concept can be experienced from all directions without obstruction.
Pool Leber very diligently created innovative and multifunctional tailor-made inbuilt elements. They developed a multi-faceted furniture component that meanders through the space in the shape of a 20 m long band that traces walls and windows. It emerges in the dining area in the form of a typical sideboard. It then transforms into a threshold equipped with drawers, bridges the elevation difference between the exterior terrace and the interior wood flooring, hides numerous wall heating elements in a nonchalant way and eventually turns into a bench. Its inclined backrest finally becomes the kitchen countertop.
The material selection is characterized by a carefully coordinated colour scheme. The cross laminated timber structure made of pine and the exposed concrete firewall cast in untreated formwork provide cues for the gentle variations in surface materials used for floors, walls and inbuilt elements.
