Munich-based structure agency Holzrausch has accomplished a two-storey extension to a penthouse in Frankfurt, that includes open-plan residing areas that join with a roof terrace overlooking the town.
Robert Volhard, the founding father of the structure and design platform Stylepark, had lived within the constructing along with his spouse Patricia for 18 years earlier than shifting up a stage when the constructing’s roof required pressing substitute.
The couple noticed a possibility and commissioned Holzrausch to hold out a extra complete mission that would supply further house together with a kitchen, eating and residing space culminating in a full-height opening.
The studio’s cofounder Tobias Petri, informed Dezeen that the temporary was to create “a roof backyard in the midst of the town and a vivid, open house formed by unusually exact purposeful necessities and executed with a characteristically excessive stage of expertise all through”.
The Wilhelminian-era constructing’s authentic mansard roof was changed with a two-storey extension, which the architects described as a “up to date crown that enhances the historic base whereas clearly expressing a brand new spatial logic on the high.”
The purchasers wished to keep away from the sloping ceilings and compartmentalised rooms typical of typical mansard attics, so the brand new roof construction as an alternative options vertical partitions and a cohesive sequence of open-plan areas.
The reconfigured penthouse totals 400-square-metres throughout three storeys, with the mansard stage accommodating the principle residing areas and balcony, whereas the higher flooring homes a house fitness center and workplace that opens onto an expansive terrace.
Holzrausch labored intently with the purchasers to develop the architectural idea and an inside scheme that gives a peaceful, crafted backdrop for his or her intensive assortment of artwork and furnishings.
“The goal was a definite shift in environment on the high of the constructing – ‘one raise journey’ into openness, mild and relaxed, lived-in consolation,” Petri added.
The fabric palette was chosen to create a tactile and refined environment, described by the mission workforce as “arschgemütlich”, which interprets as “exceptionally cosy.”
A key reference was the work of Indian structure apply Studio Mumbai, which knowledgeable the house’s heat surfaces, light varieties and the continual kambala wooden panelling that ties the areas collectively.
The straightforward palette is predicated round supplies that can collect patina over time, together with stable wooden, terrazzo and brushed chrome steel.
This strategy is especially evident within the kitchen, the place industrial parts are balanced in opposition to extra pure tones. Utilities, together with the ovens, are hidden behind timber fronts to take care of the seamless move of the models.
Furnishings and artworks featured all through the residence had been drawn from the house owners’ assortment, whereas the inclusion of bespoke joinery and particulars such because the partly hand-turned stable wooden handles provides to the crafted really feel.
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A pair of distinctly totally different staircases join the three ranges, with the blue-carpeted strategy stair to the residence offering a darker, intimate arrival into the principle residing space.
The higher flooring is reached through a sculptural spiral staircase, knowledgeable by an analogous piece that the shopper as soon as encountered at a Frankfurt boutique. The staircase winds its manner upwards from the kitchen space and is illuminated from above by a big skylight.
Pure mild pours into the extension by openings, together with the glazed frontage, creating a powerful reference to the roof backyard and close by timber that kind a pure display screen.
Holzrausch was based in 1998 by Sven Petzold and Tobias Petri. The corporate’s holistic strategy attracts on a wide range of craft practices, whereas its personal carpentry workshops allow the event of bespoke options for residential initiatives.
The studio lately referenced the work of architect Luis Barragán when designing this Mallorcan vacation house.
Elsewhere in Frankfurt, inside design studio Jolie accomplished a restaurant known as The Nest with lime-wash partitions and pure supplies.
The pictures is courtesy of Holzrausch.
