Erler House / Meier Unger

© Philip Heckhausen

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© Philip Heckhausen

Text statement provided by the architects. Erler House posed the task of designing a single-family house, a task that the nonrecreational house-building manufacture carries retired hundreds of times a time with dazzling velocity but an optimized variation. This unluckily leaves the small imaginable for appropriation oregon a tendency to deliberation extracurricular the box. By contrast, the centuries-old colony structure, contempt having taken immoderate harm implicit the years, inactive held architectural imaginable and we utilized this to our advantage.

© Philip Heckhausen

Fascinated by colony structures that person a unsocial signifier of assemblage and nationalist spaces, this yet became the plan motivation. Erler House is truthful not understood conscionable arsenic a building, but arsenic an ensemble of spatial situations. The driveway becomes a covered quadrate conscionable disconnected the thoroughfare and marks the entranceway to the residential building. The quadrate enclosed by the idiosyncratic buildings transforms into a courtyard abstraction and the halfway of household life, and successful turn, tin besides beryllium understood arsenic the abstraction successful which the idiosyncratic neighboring buildings travel unneurotic to signifier a whole.

© Philip Heckhausen

Plan - Ground floor

This juxtaposition is besides reflected successful the plan of the façades. On the 1 hand, the façades connected the quadrate are elevated and, connected the other, their multitude of ornaments marque them effectual plan elements. Only aft completion did it go wide that the courtyard ensemble by nary means attempts to adjacent itself disconnected hermetically, but alternatively allows views of the neighboring buildings done the offset of the idiosyncratic structures with their antithetic heights. This enactment creates the content of being portion of a assemblage oregon adjacent a colony society.

© Philip Heckhausen

From the beginning, determination was a tendency for the surfaces to person appealing qualities to the senses. In the hunt for an due worldly that could fulfill these criteria, brick, and masonry became decisive. In bid to region transport distances of respective 100 kilometers, we went connected a region-specific hunt and recovered an aged ceramic manufactory successful Nossen adjacent Dresden.

© Philip Heckhausen

© Philip Heckhausen

Each idiosyncratic brick, therefore, became a unsocial portion of the design. Similar to the manufacturing process, we besides adjusted elements of the operation process. Increasing the bearing and butt joints to 2-3 cm, we transformed the slots successful the bricks into ornaments and utilized each past scrap of worldly disposable successful lintels, capitals, extortion edges, letterboxes, planters, fountains, benches, and overmuch more.

© Philip Heckhausen

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Our ideas and information were rapidly passed connected to the household liable for the project. We besides recognized and encouraged their skills and involvement successful wanting to physique themselves, and aft overmuch readying and discussion, they were capable to bash so. The outhouse, works troughs, lintels, and the good of the workplace were built by the household themselves and would not person been imaginable without this effort. The assurance successful the quality to enactment ourselves enabled america to make a affluent assortment of architectural elements that enhanced the task and support it unsocial to this day.

© Philip Heckhausen

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Published connected February 01, 2023

Cite: "Erler House / Meier Unger" 01 Feb 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/995761/erler-house-meier-unger&gt ISSN 0719-8884