RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF TWO RESIDENTIAL HOUSES IN GRAZ

• Exterior Architecture
• Engineering
• Interior Architecture
• Interior Design
• Lighting Design
• Site Supervision
• Project Management
• Project Development

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