Housing for young people must meet three conditions: It must be affordable, should respond flexibly to changing situations and offer generous interior and exterior spaces for communication. Our project features small and economic units - "mini-lofts" -with a flexible floor plan (one or two room flats) - the fixed sanitary box manages the spatial separation.
With its compact housing units on one side, on the other side the supply of differentiated but flexible open spaces is a central task. These are the common areas in the floors – we call them the “floating gardens” - and other open spaces in the area of the ground floor and around the building, the sunken garden as the connecting theme of the neighborhood. The building itself is lifted above the service facilities on the ground floor to generate a covered open space.
