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Home About ScKA Project catalogue   Housing Development near Basel, 2006 - 12  Overall view of the eight housing units on a gentle slope.  Interior. The development on a slight slope near Basel, places five individual residential units in a way that the benefits of the terraced house (unobstructed view) and of the patio house (intimacy) are achieved in one scheme. The accurate integration of the buildings and enclosed patios into the slope creates a multifaceted use of interior and exterior areas and a relaxed atmosphere for living. The intensive greenery of the roofs form part of an overall "Wohnlandschaft" which only is interrupted by courtyards of smaller and larger scale - finally these appear as being scattered in a topological manner over the whole plot. Instead of condensing again, the project finally reserves an extraordinary open space in an already densely populated surrounding.  Structural principles of former forts were tested on their contemporary potential.    A roof box leads daylight into the rooms below ground level. |
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