House h

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 fundame... More