The provision of housing supply is most likely the biggest challenges in our cities in the
future. Thus, the housing estates of the 50s, 60s and 70s do not go unnoticed on the
outskirts of the city. Where developers divide the original properties of the local individual
development into small pieces with oversized buildings, the border between city and
countryside blurs. What if we continue to condense the city and treat the country differently?
Situated on a fairy tale-like plot just outside of the City of Munich, HouseH is a suburban
dream of the Sixties. While the luxury of this estate is the beautiful outside-space, our
aim was it, to keep the additionally built volume as low as possible. The character of the
main-house as a single storey building with a huge roof remains, even been completely
reorganized and restructured. The sculptural aspect of the roof and the outside terraces’
is reinterpreted and strengthened by design surgeries as one of the key aspects of the
sixties architecture.
To avoid additional volume, al additional functions are strategically situated in the old ensemble
of outbuildings, as the guesthouse is located in the completely refurbished cabin
from 1920.