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Project • By the next ENTERprise Architects • Housing
House Feigen
A house and two of the wooden huts typical for the area made up the original group of buildings that was the basis for our project; one hut had been converted to a guest house by the previous owners, the other was used as a shed. The brief asked for an adaption of the existing house (originally planned for two people) for use by a family with three children, for an additional guest room and for the building of a new carport. Our strategy was to work on the existing ensemble, defined by the traditional building typology of the area, by selective interpretations and additions. We refer to these elements scattered among the old buildings as 'house satellites'. The façade cladding in the untreated larch boards typical of the area as well as the... More
Project • By the next ENTERprise Architects • Housing
Zirl House
How can something happen that can no longer be imagined? The productive incorporation of chance is one method of increasing the complexity of the design process. As we know, chance can do both, i.e. it can maintain things in a randomly scattered state and can also allow them encounter each other from time to time. In the case of the Zirl house an emergent machine is intended to provoke the accidental, the unpredictable. The self-constructing structure of model fragments, (building) regulations and fragments of language is a pre-digital version of generative architecture. It is analogous equipment and thus its experimental production of meaning is not dependent upon binary logic. Thus for example "empty" space, which in architecture is alway... More