Box 117 is a simple house where architects have aimed to combine the neutral surface of the walls with other more vivid patterns to characterize the different zones of continuous space that can be generated between the facades.

Memory of project

A couple with two little kids moved into this loft in a Berlin backyard.

A continuous space for a kitchen, living area and sleeping area for the parents surrounds two boxes in which you find the children‘s room and the bathroom. This open layout creates the loft character of the space. The children are sleeping in a niche above a litte storage next to the children‘s room. That way one takes advantage of the clear height of 3,4 m to create more living area. The sleeping area of the parents can be closed with a room-high sliding door. If the door is open it disappears behind the bathroom-box.

The oak parquet and the cement tiles on the floor are creating a basis full of character for the simple boxes with a limewash coat. A shadow gap all around separates these boxes from the existing elements of the space and all doors are flush with the wall to accentuate the simple form. The raw concrete ceilings are preserving the industrial character. Partly old with a wooden pattern, partly new with a smooth surface the ceiling is telling something about the history of the space.

Text.- Marc Benjamin Drewes and Thomas Schneider.

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Thomas Burlon se formó como arquitecto tanto en TU Dresden como en RWTH Aachen. Colaboró ​​con BeL en Colonia, en el campo de la conversión y reprogramación. Desde 2010 es colaborador en Brandlhuber + Emde, Schneider en Berlín, en la actualidad investiga en contextualidad y tipologías de uso mixto como vivir y trabajar. Además está desarrollando pequeños proyectos paralelos como Box117 junto con Marc Benjamin Drewes.

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Marc Benjamin Drewes. 1998 – 2005, estudia arquitectura en RWTH Aachen und TU Delft, Países Bajos. En 2003 colabora con el estudio de arquitectos de MVRDV, Rotterdam, Países Bajos. 2006 – 2008 responsalbe de proyectos en E2A, Zürich, Suiza. 2009 – 2012 responsable de proyectos en Raumzeit, Berlín. Desde 2012 instala su propia oficina en Berlín. Desde  2011 miembro del personal científico Technical University Berlín.



 

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Published on: June 3, 2013
Cite: "Dwelling, BOX 117" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/dwelling-box-117> ISSN 1139-6415
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