Living In-between

Living In-between

Heidemann, G.

Jurgenhake, B. (mentor)
Kaal, S. (mentor)

Architecture

Dwelling

2011-11-08

The contrast between the ideas of composing the traditional European city and that of the modern city presented by Corbusier, have always been about the shaping of public space. In the traditional city the facades of the buildings defines the boarders of the public space, thus becoming a series of voids in the urban tissue. Whereas the space in the modern city becomes a open-ended void with free standing objects as buildings. This design mediate between the two extremes, proposing an object where the public, semi public and private spaces are carved out. These spaces are linked with the adjacent buildings on one side, and creates holes on the other, which blurred out the harsh boarder and let the public domain extend into the building. This results in a gradient of courtyard that reflects the small scale ‘Berliner Höfe’ of Kreuzberg and the large open spaces of the Media spree. A new kind of continuous courtyard typology. The quality of the dwellings are also integrated into this scheme. Every dwelling is orientated on three courtyards. The dwellings integrate all daily functions of urban life namely, living ( leisure, eating) working and sleeping. Each activity is matched with one or more courtyards. Narrow dwelling in the form of L-shapes will give max connectivity to these courtyards. The occupant can decide which activity is of more importance than the other and extend it through partition of sliding doors.

Berlin
Courtyard

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2011-11-19

Student theses

master thesis

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