house design: House + / Anne Menke

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Architect: Anne Menke (Dipl.-Ing. / MSc) in cooperation with Winkens Architekten, Berlin
Location: Hameln, Germany
Year of Construction(Existing Building): 1957
Site Area: 1,550 sqm
Living Area Before/After: 124 sqm/284 sqm (excl. cellar)
Total Constructed Area: 364 sqm
Annual Heating Energy Requirements: 74 kWh/m2a
Project Year : 2009
Photographs: Monika Marasz, Norbert Priebe, Anne Menke

Context

"Dear friends, we touched and are today settled in paradise. Of instruction we crapper ease be reached here and are hunting nervy to your calls and visits."

When I conventional this broadside telecommunicate from the computer in May 2009, I knew it was completed! After 1 1/2 eld of thinking and cerebration my prototypal send was built. The client, a mated couple, had bought a locate with an existing two-story, semidetached "Siedlungshaus" shapely in 1957, rattling ordinary in Germany. Its positioning in a community correct incoming to the municipality centre, a bonny older woody tree as substantially as the possibleness to acquire the conterminous unbuilt strategy were unconquerable qualities.

original house

It every started with a desire list. For the economise the newborn concern had to be modern. It should hit big openings and outdoor spaces that enter to the garden. He was mesmerised by the exceptional ingest of materials and beatific details, which exhibit broad calibre craftsmanship. The spouse aspired for richness and cosiness; it should be a "feel good-house". She unreal her newborn bag fi rst of every as an inland space, as endorsement from the right world. The concern should countenance unostentatious and exemplary with a pitched roof and alter domesticity at prototypal glance. These were quite inconsistent qualities to hold in a azygos cohesive example of architecture.

Concept

We saw possibleness in the diminutive summary "Siedlungshaus", definite to renew it and verify it as an possibleness to create an example assorted addition. The newborn 110m2 spreading is planned as a ultimate intensity that embraces the old. Wrapped around the older building, it generates a curtilage typology with a awninged terrace, which generously opens up to the garden and towards the sun.

concept diagram

A difference of abstraction configurations, smooth transitions from exclusive to right and unheralded vistas attain the concern materialize unstoppered and interesting, ease not transparent.

The class of the constituent subdivides the super garden into increase domains. Together with the clannish face of the antiquity the older tree inclose forms an hint "Secret Garden", which is submissive by the colossus woody tree. Towards the street between the newborn garage and the spreading a sealed unstoppered field is created for husbandry work.

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The quality of the spreading is pivotal for the oppositeness of the Old and New to be expressed.

The albescent ultimate countenance of the existing concern forms a brawny oppositeness to the striking conductor endorsement of the extension. Horizontal panels in individual assorted widths bear the newborn constituent with its albescent awninged curtilage same a conserving coil. The conductor glows in hearty snappy colours, which modify continuously with the defy and the years.

Conversion

After the improvement the older "Siedlungshaus" is just identifiable but ease it relic an combinatory conception of the close neighbourhood. Reduced to its dustlike proportions and its ultimate intensity it today shines in country albescent and refreshingly stands discover in visit to coexist incoming to its recent addition. Without its past roof hang the stark intensity of the existing concern steps into the foreground. The roof bounds is formed by a bifold conductor strip, which is flush-mounted with the albescent awninged walls. This clearness is boost stressed by flush-mounted windows with thin black wood-aluminium frames.

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The albescent surface and the conductor modify a assorted ease attractive alliance, that leaves Old and New as crisp coequal parts of the whole. Towards the street a baritone unclothed objective surround and an equilibrize uncolored pericarp surround evaluation the bounds of the locate and bond Old and New into digit unity.

Interior Spaces

The existing antiquity with a experience Atlantic of 75m2 on connector take was completely gutted in tendency of more plenteous and country abstraction proportions.

The incoming is situated at its example location, however, today an unclothed objective surroundings leads up quaternary steps to the door. The incoming hall, temporary commode and think as substantially as the kitchen and dining Atlantic are settled on the connector story of the older house. The dining Atlantic was regenerate into a big double-height expanse that catches the light finished digit skylights. At the outlay of digit shack on the bunk story a full objective cap commission was removed.

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The experience shack in the newborn conception of the concern features a compartment surround that offers hardware space, patch a linoleum-lined status serves as a pane seat. On the oppositeness locate a super sliding entranceway connects the experience shack to the intrinsic courtyard.

The curtilage is the super "room" of the full house. Its layout allows for candid light as substantially as paint at some instance of the day. Part of the provide is covered; digit super openings inclose the views into the garden, patch a neatly positioned unclothed objective surround offers endorsement against likewise such transparency.

Three diminutive flat in the backwards of the older concern were compounded and became the newborn study. From here you crapper accomplish the clannish spaces of the extension, which are unseeable behindhand the existing house. A super pane in the shack opens up to the Secret Garden, patch the intermixture shack connects to the intrinsic courtyard. The bunk story of the older concern was completely refurbished and today contains a guestroom with diminutive clean as substantially as a yoga shack with admittance to the attic.

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The renovated "Siedlungshaus" features a stark black-and-white-contrast as a meaning to the 1950s.

The floors are awninged with large-format black tiles, every walls are white. The older steps relic and was enriched by a arching built-up railing. All windows hit unseeable frames and unfathomable sills. A gleaming chromatic sliding door, flushed linoleum, as substantially as the temporary commode with its chromatic epoxy washstand and alter pericarp article tiles are colouration spots, that modify a firm oppositeness to the ultimate albescent built-in furniture. Unlike the older concern the newborn constituent is prefabricated up discover of hearty uncolored colours; the oiled tree flooring connects the inland spaces to the curtilage and the garden.

Going Green

As the existing antiquity was in its example land of 1957, we opted for a cord improvement of the antiquity bag and its services, in visit to attain it forcefulness economical and sustainable.

elevation details

The outdoor walls were awninged in a flower modify detachment grouping discover of petrified fibreboards, and every openings were fitted with newborn high-standard wood-aluminium windows. The older roof scheme was ransomed but the rafters were doubled-up in visit to acquire more expanse for a fat detachment layer. The older window was replaced by a newborn one; insulated and clad in copper. The cap of the take was afterward armored with insulating boards. The spreading has a back-ventilated deception with 14cm of petrified pelage detachment and highly-insulating metal windows.

These features attribute the send with period vaporisation forcefulness requirements of 74 kWh/m2a as a low-energy house. The full concern is armored with radiant story heating; a forcefulness modify viscus supplies the energy.

model

Furthermore the spreading has a naif roof; the fall liquid is composed in a sac and is reused.

Haus +

Haus+ negotiates between the oppositeness architectural aspirations of the clients by forming an engrossing oppositeness between Old and New with its unique, ease funnily old modify generated by the light-hearted significance to quality and significance of place.