Base data:
covered area: 150 m²
net area: 250 m²
residence: 160 m²
apartment: 40 m²
service: 20 m²
garage: 30 m²

The clients are a family from Namibia and Mozambique with German roots. They want to settle down in Baden near Vienna. Out of a delight in making discoveries we procured all kinds of maps of the family's former country. A section about the geology of this region immediately attracted our attention. Surprisingly, in the Baden region the same types of stone are found as in Mozambique. The eruption lines and cracks in geological formations begin to interest us.

Hundreds of drawings explore the similarities and formal differences. Slowly qualities emerge that lead to an inhabitable object. The Anglo-Saxon type of the "family room" served as a starting point in interpreting the drawings. It shifted the design process from an inhabitable form to a living space. The result is built: a house that not only meets the requirements of a family but also offers plenty of possibilities in terms of form and space that need some time to be discovered. This is a building that does not immediately reveal itself.

Published in: Architektur, Nov. 1995, Orac Verlag
Falter special issue Wohnen, March 1999, Falter-Verlag 

Client:
Dr. Volker Petersen
Bergsteiggasse 1a
A-2500 Baden/Austria

Dates:
commission Aug. 89
construction start May 90
completion Dez. 90

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