HOUSE HEXAHEDRA by Architekturbüro Stocker

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On a 92-acre estate on the northern rim of the Black Forest, two residential houses and a pool came into being within a landscape garden. On the exposed topography located on a slight slope, different topologies are explored. The inhabited and uninhabited buildings, and gardens of different sizes provide the base for a quest of classical and unknown geometric topologies. The calm search for the “quinta essentia“ of an elegant classical form leads from the tetrahedron to the artificial landscape, a classical form which does not deny its revolutionary roots and formulates a poetic science.

In Phase One, the existing house was reconstructed, extended, and cut in two. By leading a run through its middle, the house was opened to the landscape.

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