Designed in 2016 by One Fine Day, this inspiring two-story house is located in Dreieich, Germany.

Description
Settlements
Haus B is located in in the town of Dreieich, within the vicinity of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Here the house is embedded in a quite typical suburban housing settlement that had been developed during the 1960s. Today, this settlement depicts both: the aesthetics of an increasingly wealthy, yet rather conservative and homogeneous suburban society during the so-called ?Wirtschaftswunder? of post-war Germany; and a heavily plural and individualist approach towards the aesthetics of one?s own house that manifests itself in a rather eclectic collage of styles since the 1990s.
Geometry
Haus B is based on strictly ordered geometrical relations that allow for a certain degree of elasticity in order to respond to the different demands of, the client, the place, or the building authority. While it is conceived of a careful reading of the place, the house needs to respond to the rather technical influencing factors of its site as well. The building stretches as an elongated volume from north-west to southeast and exploits solar gains while it protects the garden from the noisy street at its north side. The slightly deformed volume adopts the directions and comparably low heights of the neighbouring eave-lines. It is then raised at its centre in order to softly translate the obliqueness of the neighbouring roofs and blend them with the advanta...