This residential building at Heiligenstock is located in a residential area with villa-like houses in a relatively homogeneous development. The task given by the client, a developer from Wiesbaden, was to construct a residential building with four units while utilising the plot to its maximum and achieving as much rentable area as possible.
Eckelmann AG was established in 1977. This medium-sized company offers its customers practical solutions for electronic machine controls and software development and system integration for the system automation. The spectrum ranges from compact device control through to the automation of scattered industrial systems.
House O, built in the sixties, is located in a classical residential area in Wiesbaden, Germany. A Competition was organized in order to find a concept of how to rebuild and renovate the existing building.
This specific construction assignment is a central topic of today’s urban development: the roof area as building site which can be covered with independent buildings – urban compression by utilization of roof areas as valuable building land. Thereby the architect is always confronted with the question of how to handle with the existing building in a contemporary sense. In the case of House S a 60´s bungalow, built by interior architect Wilfried Hilger for himself and his family.