JUNG

Between the rails of the Baden tramlines and the old walls of a villa of a factory owner there is a property that removes itself from the noise without hiding away. At the end of it is a house that was placed with a clear gesture as if it marked the threshold between town and garden, movement and calm.

A thick external wall in insulating concrete surrounds the building. It has been left bare, without render, without coating. The inside and outside are in the same material. The house breathes through its bulk, and regulates the temperature not with technology but with its own substance. The garden at the rear is only accessible through the house. It is not a rear space but rather a counterpart – a silent counter-pole to the tram passing by. A wall surrounds it and makes it into a second internal space. In the centre of the house, a high space opens up: it is almost twelve metres long, over ten metres high and scarcely wider than a corridor. It is empty, but forms the spatial heart from which everything else develops. Each of these six rooms is the same, but differentiated by the changing room heights. The specific spatial qualities create unpredictable and versatile possibilities for the appropriation of the use-neutral rooms. Two stairs that are interlaced into a double spiral connect the rooms on the track side. The LS 990 switch range in white accompanies this architecture quietly as a matter of course.