Vacation Home Hof Ahmen / Atelier Sunder-Plassmann
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Textual content description offered by the architects. The design for the holiday residence Hof Ahmen goes again to the seemingly easy and but important query: How do I praise a novel, listed farm with surrounding grassland and combine the brand new constructing into the “genius loci“ of the farm, whereas on the identical time growing an impartial trendy architectural language for the brand new constructing?
Hof Ahmen as an ensemble is characterised by an oblong courtyard surrounded by everlasting grassland, which is separated by the standard native bends. In the course of this rectangle stands the listed, thatched important home with a copper beech and luxurious, traditionally grown timber. To the east of the principle home are the indifferent roofs of the sheep barn, which was inbuilt 1990 as an open wood building and in its pro- parts and roof form correspond to the standard native „Drempel barns“.
The cottage varieties an extension of those freestanding roof buildings and a fifth, floating roof is added. The brand new constructing incorporates the “genius loci“. A floating platform, which is inserted beneath the roof, varieties the principle house of the cottage and a threshing ground is created. This platform is totally glazed and the boundary between inside and outdoors turns into blurred. The inside house expands to the outside house and a backyard home is created. Analogies to the classics of modernism, the “Glass Home” by Phillip Johnson and the “Farnsworth Home“ by Mies van der Rohe emerge. The occupant turns into an observer of nature and the surroundings turns into the principle protagonist of the inside. A staging of nature; barely elevated from a form of pedestal, the resident observes the environment, the fixed interaction of cloud formations, the seasons and the grazing of sheep in entrance of the cottage decide the ambiance and character of the cottage and the environment change into a surroundings, a backdrop.
The entire great thing about nature opens as much as the person. The customer enters the cottage by means of a terrace, which is positioned in entrance of the cottage within the east. This serves as an out of doors space in summer season and is an extension of the inside. From right here, by means of the big sliding door (2.4m x 3.4m), one enters the principle room. In its proportions (4 x 10m, 4.1m clear peak) based mostly on the barns of basic longhouses, the cottage seeks right here the dialogue between, on the one hand, rural, typical native typologies and classical modernism.
The principle room is subtly divided into 3 areas by an inserted wall component, with out dividing the house in its entirety. The southern space, which will get solar all day lengthy, is the eating space with its beneficiant free-standing desk. The northern space, the place the solar shines from 5 o‘clock within the night, is the dwelling space. Within the central space, the furnishings component integrates the moist space and visually separates it from the principle room. In entrance of the set wall unit, the kitchen floats as a free, mirrored quantity.
Two wood cubes are inserted into this absolutely glazed platform, which accommodates the sleeping berths. These closed volumes kind a retreat in distinction to the open important house and convey a way of safety. The cubes may be opened to the principle house by means of beneficiant sliding doorways, permitting versatile makes use of of the sleeping berths (daybed, sofa) along with the principle house.
The border between integration and segregation, between panorama and structure, between rural and trendy, between open and trendy and the cautious balancing of those components determines the design and lets the cottage along with the plush nature change into a novel place.
