Villa L near Munich
- Jakob Schoof
Concrete, glass and oak – this restrained material selection characterises the house that Pool Leber Architekten created on the outskirts of Gräfelfing near Munich. In this new building, hardly anything other than the door and window openings are orthogonal. The roof and facades merge into one another as a homogeneous outer skin, separated only by minimalist coping and flashing along the gables and eaves. The asymmetrically folded roof is a response to the hipped roofs of the houses built in the 1930s that continue to define the neighbourhood, despite numerous newly erected structures. The floor plan of the house resembles a compressed hexagon and is connected to a pentagonal garage along its northwestern edge.
