Haus Bavaria
The project for a private urban residence is part of a continuous urban front in the heart of the medieval city of Regensburg in Bavaria. In the historic medieval city center of Regensburg in Bavaria, the project foresees the reconstruction of a building, part of a traditional continuous urban “quint”.
The new building is a private house with a strong contemporary character, open and bright interior spaces, hight quality materials, advanced building criteria and energy standards. The project answer the opposite requirements from both the City and from the Clients. The first asking to maintain a continuity with the city character in the main materials, in the seriality of the façade openings and in the pitched roof; the seconds asking for a house that stood in character, and that express a contemporary lifestyle.
The answer are very neutral and naked facades but with windows dimension as wider as possible, with an invisible garage door finished in the same white plaster of the facades, and open and bright interior spaces.
Inside one empty space from ground level to the roof level is thought like a unique “public living space” with the living-dining room downstairs and the fitness area with swimming pool upstairs, containing in between a suspended volume with the private spaces of the rooms inside.
The building ensure an high thermal resistance provided by a thick thermal coat along with high-performance windows frames including electronic sun shading blinds between the glasses. Lighing and heating control all over the house is managed from a singular touch screen on each floor, while dehumidification system controls the humidity produced by the pool.
Ultra-ligth crystal railings without handrail, together with invisible windows frame hidden behind the wall, and mirrored glass reflecting the buildings on the other side of the road, add an effect abstraction and dematerialization.
Therefore the building sits between the adjacent buildings without altering or contradicting the continuity of the “quint”, and the character of the city but at the same time reveals its contemporary and the uniqueness asked from the clients.
