037 Alles bliebt anders
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Rapperswil
2023
Rebecca Buus, Noah Curinga, Aimée Michelfelder und Jurek Brüggen
2023
Rebecca Buus, Noah Curinga, Aimée Michelfelder und Jurek Brüggen
The requirements of a home are subject to major changes over many years: On the one hand, family constellations change. Children are born or move out, couples split up and find each other, grandparents die or are taken in for care. On the other hand, social standards of living together change from private, individual to communal.
The aim of the design is to allow such flexibility of living and to make it spatially possible. On the one hand, this is ecological, as the living space per person in Switzerland is 46.5 m2 (2022, source: FSO - BFS – Gebäude- und Wohnungsstatistik). The reorganisation of living space in all living situations and the reduction of individual living space makes a significant contribution to reducing the consumption of land, resources and energy and thus helps to solve the climate crisis.
On the other hand, this flexibility is also socially and economically attractive for residents, as they can increase their living space when needed and reduce it when not needed in order to save resources, rent and expenses.
Option Rooms
The outer flats each have two additional flexible rooms, which are separated from the living area by an openable glass wall. This allows light into the hallway with kitchen and dining table. However, it is also possible to use the rooms as a living room as an extension of the hallway or, with the glass wall and a curtain, as a bedroom or study.
Schaltzimmer
To achieve this flexibility, switch rooms are located between all the flats, which can be allocated to one or the other flat. There are five control rooms on each main floor and a further one on the top floor, giving the building a total of 11 control rooms and a correspondingly high degree of adaptability.
Flexible Sapces
There are also three joker rooms / studios on both main floors. These can be used as separate units (alone or in combination with a control room) or allocated to one of the flats as an additional room. The kitchens in these units are located behind a folding wall so that they disappear behind folding doors depending on their use.
Wohndiele
This can be extended out into the hallway through a double door in the flats. This turns the corridor, furnished with a long bench, into a communal living space if required and encourages social interaction and cohesion among the residents.
in collaboration with ammi
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The aim of the design is to allow such flexibility of living and to make it spatially possible. On the one hand, this is ecological, as the living space per person in Switzerland is 46.5 m2 (2022, source: FSO - BFS – Gebäude- und Wohnungsstatistik). The reorganisation of living space in all living situations and the reduction of individual living space makes a significant contribution to reducing the consumption of land, resources and energy and thus helps to solve the climate crisis.
On the other hand, this flexibility is also socially and economically attractive for residents, as they can increase their living space when needed and reduce it when not needed in order to save resources, rent and expenses.
Option Rooms
The outer flats each have two additional flexible rooms, which are separated from the living area by an openable glass wall. This allows light into the hallway with kitchen and dining table. However, it is also possible to use the rooms as a living room as an extension of the hallway or, with the glass wall and a curtain, as a bedroom or study.
Schaltzimmer
To achieve this flexibility, switch rooms are located between all the flats, which can be allocated to one or the other flat. There are five control rooms on each main floor and a further one on the top floor, giving the building a total of 11 control rooms and a correspondingly high degree of adaptability.
Flexible Sapces
There are also three joker rooms / studios on both main floors. These can be used as separate units (alone or in combination with a control room) or allocated to one of the flats as an additional room. The kitchens in these units are located behind a folding wall so that they disappear behind folding doors depending on their use.
Wohndiele
This can be extended out into the hallway through a double door in the flats. This turns the corridor, furnished with a long bench, into a communal living space if required and encourages social interaction and cohesion among the residents.
in collaboration with ammi
