Abstract
Wachter Residence, Karlsruhe - West Germany The design of this home in Karlsruhe v\/as presided over by two basic criteria: function and human scale, carried up to their ultimate consequences. The first criteria had a decisive influence on the roof arrangement, as an extension of the neighboring buildings, and on the selection of construction materials to match the suburban environment where the site is located, not to forget the shaping of Windows and skylights, reflecting the internal functions and providing lighting while protecting the privacy of the interior from the exterior lines of view. The second criteria affects aspects so different from one another as the unexpected but valid room arrangement following a spiral path leading from the entrance to the master bedroom at the other end with the remaining rooms at intermediate levels affording the required degree of privacy; or the arrangement of the mechanical installations, resembling the human backbone; or, finally, the paint finish chosen, pleasing man's taste for ornamentality.
Highlights
The first criteria had a decisive influence on the roof arrangement, as an extensión of the neighbourlng buildings, and on the selection of construction materials to match the suburban environment where the site is located, not to forget the shaping of Windows and skylights, reflecting the interna! functions and providing lighting while protecting the privacy of the interior from the exterior lines of view
WACHTER-HAUS - KARLSRUHE WESTDEUTSCHLAND Friedrich Lehmann, architekt Die Durchführung dieses Wohqbaus in Karisruhe war durch zwei hauptsáchliche Kriterien gekennzeichnet: die Zweckmássigkeit und die menschliche Skala
Summary
La primera influyó desde la disposición de las cubiertas, como prolongación de las construcciones vecinas, hasta la elección de los materiales constructivos, acordes con el entorno suburbano de la parcela, sin olvidar la configuración de las ventanas y lucernarios que, con sus diferentes formatos, indican el uso del interior, al tiempo que posibilitan la iluminación, protegiendo de las vistas exteriores. La segunda característica afecta a aspectos tan dispares como la original, pero válida, secuencia de habitaciones —según una espiral que, desde la entrada, conduce, en el extremo opuesto, al dormitorio de los padres, quedando las restantes dependencias situadas en los niveles intermedios según su exigencia de privacidad—, o la disposición de las instalaciones, a semejanza de la columna vertebral humana, o, por último, la pintura empleada, que satisface el gusto del hombre por el adorno.
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