Klenke Apartment Building

View from the street.

"With its traditional roof shape and simple cubic stature, the new house seamlessly conforms to the typology of the suburban quarter. At the same time this existing image is put into question -- the new building shell comes across as a coloured block, whose lively surface changes in the light, as if it was a huge stone block."

View from the courtyard.

"The mix of tradition coupled with a reduction in opulence typical of traditional construction, causes an overlay of different images of what a house in this neighborhood represents. Thus informing the neighboring building development of the possibility -- of blurring the lines that define the boundaries of old and new.

The 'traditional' is defined in this house by the built-in flap tile and tilt-angle of the roof.

The fact that the building is situated next to a gateway to a delivery-yard, and the atypical front-end gable view; define the urban character of this house."

Credits

• Text by Archifactory.de
• Photographs by Archifactory.de, Christian Richters, Courtesy of Archifactory.de
• Compiled and Edited by Varun M Ajani

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