The house is a contemporary intervention in an UNESCOheritage urban environments
The project for a private urban residence is part of a continuous urban front in the heart of the medieval city of Regensburg in Bavaria.
In the historic medieval city center of Regensburg in Bavaria, the projectforesees the reconstruction of a building, part of a traditional continuous urban “quint”.
The new building is a private house withastrongcontemporarycharacter, open and bright interior spaces, hight quality materials, advanced building criteria and energystandards.The project answer the opposite requirements from both the City and from the Clients. The first asking to maintain a continuity with the city character in the main materials, in the seriality of the façade openings and in the pitched roof; the seconds asking for a house that stood in character, and that express a contemporary lifestyle.
The answer are very neutral and naked facades but with windows dimension as wider as possible, with an invisible garage door finished in the same white plaster of the facades, and open and bright interior spaces.
Inside one empty space from ground level to the roof level is thought like a unique “public living space” with the living-dining room downstairs and the fitness area with swimming pool upstairs, containing in between a suspended volume with the private spaces of the rooms inside.
The building ensure an high thermal resistanceprovided bya thickthermal coatalong withhigh-performance windows frames including electronic sun shading blinds between the glasses.Lighing and heating control all over the house is managed from a singular touch screen on each floor, while dehumidification systemcontrols thehumidityproduced by thepool.
Ultra-ligth crystal railings without handrail, together with invisible windows frame hidden behind the wall, and mirrored glass reflecting the buildings on the other side of the road, add an effect abstraction and dematerialization.
Therefore the building sits between the adjacent buildings without altering or contradicting the continuity of the “quint”, and the character of the city but at the same time reveals its contemporary and the uniqueness asked from the clients.
26-Sep-2012
Haus Bavaria has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award. WAF will take place 3-5 October 2012 in Singapore during which Carlo Berarducci will present the project to a jury of renowned architects. The project will also be exhibited in the Gallery and on the World Building Directory. http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com
Project report
Above the ancient Roman walls of the city of Regensburg, in Bavaria (Germany), the project foresees the total demolition and reconstruction of a building which is part of a continuous “quint” dating back to the Middle Ages, overlooking the park on the external side and facing the street on the internal side. The new building is a private home with swimming pool and a sport training area inside.
The internal spaces have been organized in three parallel zones on all the floors.
The first zone on the left is like a service tower containing all the wet areas of the house with a swimming-pool on the top level.
The central zone is void and contains an open stairway and a glass elevator.
The third zone contains all the living spaces, without any structure between the two facades.
One empty space from ground level to the roof level is thought like a unique “public living space” with the living-dining room downstairs and the fitness area upstairs, containing in between the suspended volume of the private spaces of the rooms.
The client asked specifically for a house that stood in the character and above all in the choice of materials and finishes, and that express a character and a sense of Italian luxury. So within the materials are brown granite and white marble with golden veins from Carrara, white leather from Florence manufacturing and polished white customized furnishings produced by a specialized marine furnishing carpentry.
The requirements imposed by the city for the fact of being in the old town center, were few but precise. The facades should have maintained an effect of seriality in the openings with a fairly regular alternation of full and empty spaces.
The answer was a very neutral and naked facade but with windows dimension wider as possible.
Ultra-ligth crystal railings without handrail, together with invisible windows frame hidden behind the wall, and mirrored glass reflecting the buildings on the other side of the road, makes an effect abstraction and dematerialization.
Everything protruding or receding from the facade plane is shiny and reflective, with the thickness of the wall around the windows in white gloss aluminum and the thickness of the jutting out slab of the terraces coated with mirrors reflecting the trees of the park, with a confusing effect.
The building sits between the adjacent buildings without altering or contradicting the continuity of the “quint”, but at the same time it is noticed for its strangeness reaveling its contemporary.
It would have been neutral but it is not .
