Residential
Apartments Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Brick and Weather
The openings are recessed deep into the brickwork, which keeps the driving rain off the frames and gives the elevation its shadow. Read on the plan it looks like an efficiency. Walked through, it is the thing that makes the scheme feel considered rather than merely resolved.
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Exterior Perspective
The building is an apartment building for a Hamburg street where brick is the language and the weather is the constraint, and it reads that way at a glance. Nothing had to be explained to the people using it.
At this scale, the openings are recessed deep into the brickwork, which keeps the driving rain off the frames and gives the elevation its shadow. It is the part of the scheme a visitor never remarks on and would notice immediately if it were not there.
“Ask what the project is and the answer is short: an apartment building for a Hamburg street where brick is the language and the weather is the constraint. Keeping it short was the work.”
- Parallel Group Architects
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