Redesign of a 1930's multifamily home in Bonn, Germany. The goal of this work is to create an energy efficient architecture that reduces energy consumption up to 50%. The technical components correspond to a redesign of the facades as well as a refined organization of the individual unit floor plans and their relationship between inside and outside spaces. Passive as well as active measures are combined to reduce the overall energy consumption and to improve living comfort.
Spatial configurations are explored to interpret the available lot between its two existing 19th and 20th century neighbors with the goal to integrate the new building in its urban context and at the same time to illustrate its cutting edge approach towards building technology.
Two separate apartments are fit into the building envelope in a way that both units have a street level entrance as well as a maximum exposure of views to the nearby river and the iconic medieval castle that dominates the surrounding landscape.
Credit
Oliver Schütte with Jean Paul Garnier.
Structural Engineering: Fritz Giese.
Bonn, Germany, 2008 - 2009.