Planning/Construction Management: fabi architekten bda, Regensburg
Employees: Hanna Markgraf
Statics: Kugler & Kerschbaum Kelheim
Building Services: Gas condensing boiler with solar thermal system, KNX control, controlled living space ventilation with heat recovery, wood-burning stove, windows: Josko one, plaster: STO Milano concrete
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Planning Period: 11.2016 – 10.2017
Construction Period: 03.2018 – 05.2019
Living Space: 250.00 m²
Gross Volume: 1158.00 m³
Fabi architekten designed a no-frills cube that seems to float above the challenges to be overcome. Its smooth-grey concrete filler facade only reveals the anthracite-colored wall panels, which lift the building above the hundred-year high water mark, at second glance. Between them is a small, windowless basement made of waterproof concrete, which housed the building services and the cellar.
In keeping with the theme of the bank, access is via a steel walkway with a grating covering. Discreet echoes of a jetty, but no clumsy formalism: Even at high tide, the house remains accessible from all sides, in dry everyday life the south-facing, widened part of the jetty serves as a small sun terrace.
The two residential floors only open to the publicly visible sides via a few small windows. Delicately framed in black, they are cut into the facades in harmonious proportions. The entrance to the house is shielded by a balcony with a view of the old town. Its closed parapet also protects a floor-to-ceiling window on the upper floor from prying eyes.
Larger glass surfaces were arranged towards the Danube, in the area of the large terrace in the north-west corner even as a continuous, floor-to-ceiling window front. Here, a façade recess offers privacy and weather protection in equal measure. This means that a total of three outdoor areas with very different qualities are available. A seat window running around the corner allows a particularly beautiful view from the bedroom on the upper floor.
Despite the tight building limits, an above-average space program had to be accommodated inside the house for the family of five. The ground floor is defined by two visual axes: from the entrance, the view extends between the side rooms on the street side and the centrally located staircase to the eat-in kitchen and, thanks to a floor-to-ceiling window, even beyond.
The second axis goes from the cooking area with kitchen island to the dining area and terrace to the green of the Danube bank. The living area is a quiet zone next to this axis, closed on three sides, opening only to the terrace.
Immediately next to the entrance there is another room that can be used in a variety of ways. A guest room can be set up here as well as an office with occasional visitor traffic.
As a bedroom, it enables living on one level in combination with the bathroom opposite. The current bedrooms are on the upper floor, two of them with separate dressing rooms. Two bathrooms and the utility room complete the offer here.
The black and gray color concept on the outside is repeated even more strikingly on the inside. The white plastered walls and ceilings throughout are complemented by black built-in furniture, for example in the kitchen and living area.
They underline the protective, somewhat defiant character of the bright, light-flooded house. Timeless natural stone floors and individual fronts in dark wood complement this atmosphere harmoniously.