aloof houses / KLab architecture

We tried to minimize the volumes that were attached to the next flat to minimize any possible interference between the people who owned the houses. We managed this by inserting a small middle floor each time, which produced a void space, especially combined with the atrium. The void space was then been occupied by gardens and outdoor covered areas.

In a way, the built part was equal or even less to the outdoor space, covered and uncovered and this is something quite new to an apartment buildings.

The building produces dramatic cutouts in its volume as the metal structure allowed us to create large cantilevered surfaces on top of light metal columns. The atrium and the volumes of the pools emphasized this almost sculptural subtraction of volume which created all these covered gardens.

The latest changes in the building regulations and also the new technologies which we have tested and introduced to our design, but also the need for new and more sustainable living conditions allowed us to fulfill our design and living experiment and produce this typical (at least for now) apartment building.