Private housing, Stuttgart | Germany
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Project: Private housing, Stuttgart // Germany
Architect: Architekturbüro feinplaner – Timo Pietschmann, M.A., Stuttgart // Germany
Fabricator + Installer: Hagen Streicher – HS Blechschmiede, Beilstein-Fernersberg // Germany
Façade system: Glued
Year of construction: 2024
Product: ALUCOBOND® PLUS anodized look C32
Photos: Architekturbüro feinplaner – Timo Pietschmann, M.A.
DISCREET PRESENCE
This compact private residence, which looks rather daring, is tucked away in an undisclosed location in Stuttgart. No matter where it is, perhaps in the valley basin or maybe on the fashionable slopes where the views are good, or in the hills surrounding the city outskirts, only the most observant passer-by, if anyone, will notice it. They might try to get a better look at it: the colour and materials used, the slender joints, gauged precisely within a grid format which also frames the deeply recessed window openings. Or at its simple, monolithic form, like a sculpture, pared down to nothing more than a cube with a gable roof, where dark photovoltaic modules are integrated with similar exactitude. For everyone else, the building, which is difficult to see from the road, is liable to remain hidden and protected from prying eyes. However, it is definitely worth closer inspection. In the garage hidden beneath the house, there are four parking spaces. Above this, the main flat spreads over both the ground and first floor and the levels are connected by a lift to make it fully accessible. Completing the structure is a self-contained flat on the top floor with private access. The building’s generous total floor area of around 800 square metres is enveloped in a precise, flat outer envelope of large-format, bonded ALUCOBOND® panels in C32. The bronze tone is not restricted to the approximately 400-square-metre façade, it has become a unifying design element: window frames echo the colour, as do the banisters and individual pieces of furniture and interior fittings. The cool metallic tone meets warm wood and herringbone parquet is laid through the living areas. The focal point on the ground floor is the open-plan layout, comprising kitchen, dining and living areas with a fireplace and a long, integrated bench; a double-height space links to the upper floor, where three bedrooms and two bathrooms are situated. From the outside, however, the layout is barely discernible; it remains enigmatic. Designed by Timo Pietschmann at his architectural office, feinplaner, a house was created which does not need to be loud or brash to be distinctive. And yet it is still distinctively special.