Attic expansion
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Project • By Christian Tezza Architect • Apartments
Mansarda A2CP
This is a revenge story.
Antonio and Chiara, together with their sons, are the main characters.
Everything started with their wedding and their dream to star a family more than ten years ago.
Marco Toté
They searched for their love nest and they found it a three-room apartment placed at the last floor of a building under construction; that apartment had also an attic directly connected with a stair.
Marco Toté
Thirteen years have passed since the day they found their nest, but their attention concentrated just on the bottom level of the house: the attic was used only as storage room.
Marco Toté
But in the meantime, they had children and they began to feel the necessity of having more space without le... More
Project • By D. Champsas architectural office • Apartments
LINE-PLANE-PRISM | Loft addition to a penthouse
The progress achieved by systematic research will give birth to a dictionary of elements that, developed further, will lead to a “grammar”.W. Kandinsky, 1924, “Point and Line to Plane” A. ANALYSIS1. A groundbreaking architectural vocabularyDefining the POINT and the LINE, W. Kandinsky and P. Klee have identified rich symbolic and conceptual content to these archetypal engravings. With their theoretical and painting work, the modern masters of abstraction laid the principles for a methodical composition on canvas, based on these primary Elements.What would the content of this radical vocabulary be if, reductively in some way, it was to be extended to the "3D canvas"?Extruded to the third dimension, the POINT, the LINE and the... More
Project • By brandt+simon architekten • Apartments
konus
The roof of the three-storeyed residential building from the 19th century should be rebuilt and extended to an apartment. For geometric, static and building physical reasons the extension was not realizable with the existing roof construction. For that the roof timbering was removed completely and rebuilt in form of a pitched roof. To align the geometry of the roof space for residential use the ridge line was raised but subordinated to the neighbor building. Despite of this elevation the roof surface areas stay not visible from the street. Generous roof-top windows in direction to the street care for lighting and ventilation of the new living area. On the roof side to the courtyard a row of little roof-top windows was planned to light up th... More
Project • By brandt+simon architekten • Apartments
lichten
Attic expansion of a multifamily house in Berlin. More
Project • By brandt+simon architekten • Apartments
deckweiß
A large Berlin block of flats in Bötzow district, built in 1905, with a representative front building, side wing and rear wing was extensively refurbished in a partially inhabited state.
The originally rich stucco facade of the front building had mostly dropped off and the remaining elements were irredeemably dilapidated.
For the reconstruction of the facade a stucco version from the construction period could be moulded from the mirror-inverted neighbouring front building.
All flats received bathrooms, the partly still existing pedestal toilets were removed.
Several Berliner Zimmer were combined with the adjacent former kitchen and toilet chambers to form generous kitchen –living rooms.
The side wing was completely gutted and small one... More