The design for a single-family house at the edge of a small town in the western part of Germany combines vernacular and contemporary formal language. We examined how specific regional form could be further developed with the help of digital planning tools in the sense of a contemporary "parametric regionalism" that is both common and uncommon to its context.

The plan of House H refers to the aisled barns that are typical to the region with their nave-and-aisle layout. We have furthered this pattern with a parametric model, whose geometric elasticity helped to, cover required functions, answer building legislation, optimize structural requirements, as well as balance spatial and formal intentions. House H is divided into two fundamentally different zones: the wings contain areas for seclusion, such as the intimate living room, the kitchen-cum-living room, the library, as well as the family's bedrooms upstairs. The transformation of the plan also instigates the transformation of the saddle roof into a relatively complex roof landscape. While the well-known shapes of the four gables remain undisturbed, the “tweening” of the roof shapes results in curved and folded surfaces that obscure the clarity of a gabled roof. The roof is covered with cedar-wood lamellas, that translate the logic of the roof's transformational geometry.

House H has been designed beyond the requirements of the latest German energy saving regulation (EnEV). Thus, next to the application of durable materials all exterior wall and roof surfaces contain up to 20 cm thick layers of thermal insulation. All windows are at least double-glazed. A brine-to-water heat pump provides the house's heating and warm water-supply with energy.