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House F, Kronberg,
Germany
Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten
Photographs : Christoph Kraneburg

House F - Project description:
The starting point for the planning of the house was the goal of coupling
the residential quality and the topography of the idyllic orchard lawn
with the living rooms of the house.

Due to the stipulation of a pitched roof by the authorities and in connection
with the individually designed roofs of the current and historical buildings
in the neighbourhood, an interesting debate ensues on the subject of pitched
roofs. From this, the concept of subdividing the new building into three
zones develops:
1) The ground floor is completely submerged in the earth (cellar).
2) The garden floor, of which the base is oriented to the topography of
the plot of land, is openly embedded in the orchard lawn.
3) Upon this, the corporeal top floor completes the contours of an ostensibly
pitched roof type of house.
The actual form is based on fundamental criteria such as function, construction,
material, lighting etc. and associative form design.
The associative ambivalent perception is, on the one hand, a dynamic,
hovering vehicle or flying object, and on the other hand, a completely
normal pitched roof house, built on a slope, where the mass of the garden
floor has been subtracted.
The garden floor is completely glassed, in order to connect the interior
with the orchard lawn in an unbroken flow. Also in a flowing manner, the
orchard lawn is furnished both inside and outside with boxes and spaces.
The top story appears to be a levitated body. The sheet-metal cladding
echoes the ambivalence of roof and vehicle
Architect: Meixner
Schlüter Wendt Architekten
Project team: Claudia Meixner, Florian Schlüter, Martin Wendt, Georg
Kratzenstein (Project Architect)

Engineer: Dipl.Ing. Hans Gruhn
Büro für Baustatik
Saalfelder Straße 26
65931 Frankfurt am Main
Client: private
Site: Kronberg, Taunus
Fotograf: Christoph Kraneburg
Köln/Darmstadt
Achterstraße 8
50678 Köln
Mobil 0049 - 179-3 98 01 69
Tel/fax 0049 (-221) 3 97 53 40
info@kraneburg.net
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