TÜBINGEN – Based in Stuttgart, Germany, Fabian Evers Architecture together with Wezel Architektur recently completed a modest residential project that cleverly addresses the technical challenges of its inconvenient site, turning them into potentials and creative opportunities.
Lying along a main road near the German university town of Tübingen, this 120-sq-m house sits atop a workshop primarily accommodating the client with a sheltered parking space for all-wheel drive medium trucks. The architect further explains that stacking open and versatile spaces on two levels allows to significantly reduce the building’s footprint and grant the living spaces with interesting views towards the surrounding rural landscapes.
The project’s façades make the vertical distribution of the programme explicit and very legible. The anthracite-sided volume of the residential unit appears to be hovering over a translucent polycarbonate-clad prism which transmits light by day and boasts a compelling lantern-like quality by night.
Oriented strand board lines the walls and ceilings of the bedroom and bathroom as well as the living room, opening up to a large south-facing loggia. The upper floor is punctuated with window bays, framing the vicinity and allowing natural light to bathe the house.
The Haus Unimog stands out for its typology, hybrid in character, as well as for its extensive use of basic and economic construction techniques. The project promotes a context-aware architecture, stripped down so as to reveal the essential quality of spaces.
Photos Sebastian Berger and Michael Schnabel
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wezelarchitektur.de