Neues Bauen am Horn
Weimar, Germany

The location for this private villa is a site in the suburbs of Weimar which looks out onto a garden planned by Goethe and contains a small number of 19th century buildings. In 1996 the Bauhaus University implemented a project to produce exemplary housing schemes on the site. The site was master planned by Adolph Krischanitz for a scheme of houses in the Bauhaus manner each to be designed by different architects. The practice has been appointed along side Peter Maerkli, Hermann Czech, Diener and Diener, and Adolph Krischanitz to produce schemes for the few plots on the site which remain unfilled.

Our scheme is three stories high at the front, the scale of the 19th century buildings on the street. As in the Red house we experiment with architectural languages, in this case those of Modernism Adolph Loos, the Neo-Modernism of the surrounding houses, and allusions to rustic Italian villas.

The house is green in a low tech way. The windows will provide abundant daylight and reduce the dependency on electric lighting. The concrete blockwork walls and pre-cast floors will give thermal mass and the exterior is covered with stucco on insulation.

The materials and means of construction are those that have already been used on the site, and therefore economic and
sustainable.


Status: design only
Client: LEG Thueringen
Photographs: David Grandorge