HOMEBASE
RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF TWO RESIDENTIAL HOUSES IN GRAZ
- Exterior Architecture
- Engineering
- Interior Architecture
- Interior Design
- Lighting Design
- Site Supervision
- Project Management
- Project Development
"we wanted to design, we wanted to build and we were tired of our student flats" / urban densification / layering of two housing generations / extravagant and simple / pre-fab-system / low-cost / common courtyard / "Sportsbar" / sundeck & barbeque
By superimposing two generations of houses, the team at Innocad creates a fruitful association with two living philosophies. Here the team offered two different types of renovation and extension: one is the street-facing renovation, highly extroverted, with big windows; and the one floor house in the protected courtyard, introverted, with small windows. Here the most widely varying identities – introverts and extroverts – can come together to animate the common living space. The team used two wooden cubes to create a unique relationship with each other. The design maintains consistency with the cubes that share the same shape, material, construction (prefabricated board elements) and a seemless integration into the existing building and offer a dialog with each other. The urban monotony of the Graz city fringe is burst wide open here with this confident design.
- project name: HOMEBASE
- function: residential
- location: Graz, AUSTRIA
- client:
- owners association
- floor space: 435 m²
- number of floors: 4 main house / 2 courtyard house
- number of units: 8
- construction start: 01 / 2001
- completion: 07 / 2001
- construction cost: EUR 430.000
- project team:
Peter Schwaiger
Alexander Gruber, Andreas Reiter, Bernd Steinhuber, Erhard Rathmayr, Martin Lesjak
- photographer: Angelo Kaunat and INNOCAD
