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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Duplex House in Ennetbaden, Switzerland by L3P ArchitektenDecember 15th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: L3P Architekten New development Minergie® duplex house (low-energy consumption building), 5408 Ennetbaden Aargau, Switzerland 2012 Despite the small block of land (637m2), a generous duplex house has been developed in an architecturally heterogeneous neighbourhood on the south face of Ennetbaden, which, in reference to organisation, takes an interesting and unconventional path.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja
 Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The floor-plan volume is comprised of distorted rectangles. The architects dissected the volume at diverse sites. Besides the resulting attractive remaining volume, each of these dissections is intended to fulfil an additional function:
 Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The duplex house is not readable from the outside. The main surface are rendered with a horizontal brush with a 6mm render, treated and painted in a subtle green tone. On the contrary, the dissected surfaces are treated with a 0.5mm fine render in a brown colour scheme, thus machining an additional volume cut.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The windows are also treated in two colours: the protruding, box-shaped constructions are kept aluminium-coloured externally, while the small-formed windows that are flush with the exterior surface, as well as the shutters, appear in golden tones.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The interior of the two units are intrinsically different. The valley-side unit stretches below from the naturally-lit sleeping area over the ground floor, including the living / dining / kitchen area, up to the upper floor encompassing the bedrooms. The continuous staircase leaning on the fire division wall serves as a connection to the third floor, building a formative element of the interior.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The two-storey living area is completed without the usual accessibility, thus gaining power and dynamic. The design of the interior with its exposed cast concrete ceilings, floors and partial walls, as well as the white kitchen with cast concrete exposure gives an archaic impression.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The hillside unit stretches over four floors which are combined through a central core. The common utilities management and workshop is found in the basement. The ground floor with its entry and wardrobe only serves as a collection point to the upper floors with the bedrooms.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The formative element here is the access to the overlapping staircase, which changes direction and entry-side with every floor. In the attic storey, the core of the unit is lighted from above with polygonal apertures in the wall and roof. The surrounding living, dining and kitchen area are arranged on the south and north-sided terraces.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja The view to the south from the timber decking and the intensive roof-greening are breath-taking. For the materialisation a mixture of cast concrete and oak parquet flooring in combination with exposed concrete ceilings and partial walls was chosen. This duplex house is in true spirit of the expression: externally united – internally atwain.  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja  Image Courtesy © Sabrina Scheja  Site Plan : Image Courtesy © L3P Architects  Image Courtesy © L3P Architects  Plan : Image Courtesy © L3P Architects  Section : Image Courtesy © L3P Architects  Elevation : Image Courtesy © L3P Architects
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