Apartments

The 25-unit residential building in Berlin was built with a building group, a community of private individuals, who joined together for the purchase of land and construction of a building, this way being able to cut the developer’s profit margin and to participate in the decisions concerning their space and the building.

Andre Kong Studio has extended a Victorian terraced house in southeast London by extruding a series of stepped brick volumes hosting a new bedroom, study, and bathroom. The brief emerged out of two significant post-lockdown changes for the family: the arrival of another child and a shift to permanently working from home. Suddenly the family was outgrowing their house and needed more space and a refuge from the rest of the busy youth-filled household.

On the Rootacker in Stetten, a development structure is proposed that corresponds to the existing neighborhood of single-family houses. The sloping site is occupied by three apartment buildings, which follow the natural course of the terrain. Although the desired density is achieved, the gradation leaves enough space between the buildings and allows an unobstructed view over the valley. Each of the three houses includes five bright flats with different sizes and floor plans. They all have in common an orientation towards the view and a fluid sequence of rooms.

When wood shapes Paris. A simple but essential question guides the conception of Tolbiac: what is housing? Housing should elevate the individual to the rank of an inhabitant of the world, install home and in the city, connect to yesterday and tomorrow, let us contemplate the near and distant elsewhere, structure our views, let us touch the mineral and the woody, the light and the dark, be caressing and rough, clear and blurred, welcoming like a hotel and simple like a shelter, make us big and small at the same time.

Bit Loft is located on the corner of Colon Avenue and Montenegro Street, in the Historic Center of Guadalajara, in the Mexicaltzingo neighborhood, a very traditional area of the city. It is an apartment building designed for people who prioritize a central location in the city and to have public amenities on the premises for work and recreation.

This project is a result of a public open call by the Barcelona City Council to alter the use of a lot located in the Marina del Prat Vermell neighborhood, classified as VPO with surface rights in favor of housing cooperatives for a minimum of 75 years. The self-promotion and subsequent collective management by the cooperative Llar Jove Marina Prat Vermell SCCL has involved the participation of 32 neighbors in the process (design, construction, and use) generating the opportunity to jointly project their specific needs, investing in the community dimension as one of the main values.

The client asked for a building with two twin apartments, one on top of the other, as the first of two projects to take place on the two last vacant plots of land in the neighborhood, which belong to two brothers.  A duplex solution was proposed instead, in order to preserve the relationship that all the other houses in the area still have with the street. Thus, the property´s 10-meter frontage is divided in two which results in narrow and deep floorplans with ample open spaces in front and in the back, this allows for an ideal combination of contact of the first floor with the ground and the privacy that the second floor provides.