Located in Germany, this house is an existing three-family house from the 50?s that was renovated by Bernd Zimmermann Architekten. The exterior form of the existing building wasn’t allowed to change, but the interior was completly converted. New Airspaces and galleries, which connect the different levels, create the favored open living-structure. Existing windows were closed almost completely and replaced by new openings in roof and walls, with different sizes, forms and functions. A large-sized skylight above the three-storied airspace, with a planted tree in it, provides an ideal natural lighting of the house.
At the outside the stainless steel covering, coherent on walls and roof, reflects the whole environment in order to adapt to the existing surrounding, without being subordinated to it.
Photographs: Prof. Valentin Wormbs, Stuttgart