housing München-Riem

"front yard" as apartment access and communication area

This residential building is being developed as a vertical urban landscape, a framework that offers appropriate space for different and changing lifestyles and forms of living. Each floor is considered building land, and when stacked on top of each other, the result is a multi-storey residential building. Each floor is accessed via a „street“ or „plot path“. This is implemented structurally in the form of open pergolas stacked on top of each other, which are accessed via a central staircase.

Load-bearing cores are positioned at regular intervals along the entire length, each containing the apartment entrances, kitchens and bathrooms. Between these cores, the pergola area widens into a „front garden“ that also serves as an apartment entrance, loggia and communication area. By positioning emergency staircases at the ends of the pergola, there are no fire safety requirements for the glazing, which allows for generous lighting in the flats, all of which are oriented on both sides. All bathrooms can also be naturally lit.