Article source: one fine day Architekten

Settlements
Haus B is located in in the town of Dreieich, within the vicinity of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Here the house is embedded in a quite typical suburban housing settlement that had been developed during the 1960s. Today, this settlement depicts both: the aesthetics of an increasingly wealthy, yet rather conservative and homogeneous suburban society during the so-called “Wirtschaftswunder” of post-war Germany; and a heavily plural and individualist approach towards the aesthetics of one’s own house that manifests itself in a rather eclectic collage of styles since the 1990s.

The former local societal, cultural and aesthetic conventions of the1960s reflect themselves in a rather homogeneous array of small-scale bungalows and houses with allegedly local stylistic elements, such as gabled or hipped roofs and a rather rustic-style use of materials. On the other side a much more differentiated and somewhat reckless approach to size and individualized aesthetics has filled empty plots but also replaced existing houses since the 1990s. Thus, Haus B finds itself in an apparently homogeneous, yet at least architecturally also quite ambiguous neighbourhood. Here it has to balance the needs of contemporary living and aesthetics with the cultural and formal implications of a grown context that is typical for many suburban settlements throughout the region.

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• Architects: one fine day Architekten
• Project: Haus B
• Location: Dreieich, Germany
• Software used: Rhino, Grasshopper
  
• From Design to Construction Documentation (LPH1-5): one fine day. office for architectural design, Daniela Hake, Holger Hoffmann, Hajdiin Dragusha, Janis Millard, Gabriele Gölzer
• Tender and Site Supervision (LPH6-8): Ulrike Thies, Freie Architektin, M.Sc. IPM
• Structural Design: Wassink Ingenieure, Jürgen Scholte-Wassink

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