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House on Parzivalplatz
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multi-family homes
Place
Munich, Germany
Studio
Photos
Pk. Odessa / Sebastian Schels
Description
Urban planning designs can only work if individual architects engage
with urban planning as elements of the whole. The house on Parzivalplatz in
Munich gave us the opportunity to look for an appropriate architectural
response to the question of finding the right façade for the square within our own
urban planning ensemble. With our design for the district around the
Leopoldstraße, the Parzivalstraße is given a suitable spatial
conclusion. The house on Parzivalplatz now stands at the end of the street
perspective – behind the metropolitan Schwabing hospital. On the
side facing the square, it looks like a simple residential building with
shutters on the ground floor. The loggia looking out onto the square references
a classical design theme. The façade facing the square rests on a solid,
high base. Together with the deep loggias, this turns it into a resonating body
for the urban space. Constructed with large format ashlar pillars and lintels,
it plays with the axiality of the street perspective with its symmetries and
partial symmetries. In sunlight, the fluting on the white pillars almost makes
them look like textile curtains which gives the façade a fascinating, paradoxical
appearance of lightness.