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Entwurf • Design The Baukunst Dynamites, Stuttgart
Grundriss Kochen • Floor plan Cooking
Grundriss Entspannen • Floor plan Relaxing Grundriss Duschen • Floor plan Showering dually (or together) added to or taken away from the 26-square-metre
Grundriss Essen • Floor plan Eating
Bauherr • Client Andreas Roser, Stuttgart
Standort • Location Stuttgart
Nutzfläche • Floor space 36 m 2
Fotos • Photos Philip Kottlorz, Stuttgart
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LIVING WITH MORRIS
IN STUTTGART
While the paradigm of functional segregation still applied
in modernism, systems of temporary, flexible and hybrid
spatial structures are central to contemporary building
tasks. With their experimental monospace Living with
Morris, The Baukunst Dynamites contribute to this para-
digm shift and demonstrate how overlapping, transpa-
rent and soft walls create adaptable living scenarios.
D ensely populated metropolises are often attractive, but afford-
able living space is scarce. Accordingly, housing space must be
used in a sophisticated way – a task to which The Baukunst Dynami-
Grundriss Arbeiten • Floor plan Working tes are happy to devote themselves. The internationally active design
collective working at the interface of architecture, design, art and
theory thinks urban living space further, proving with its current pro-
ject how living in the smallest of spaces can be interpreted in a con-
temporary way and how rental housing space can be made usable in
the long term for densely populated cities. Under the direction of
Sarah Behrens and Ina Westheiden, the team transformed a two-
room flat in a 1930s apartment building in the south of Stuttgart with
tiny, monofunctional rooms into a spacious, multifunctional unit with
a flexible floor plan. In order to make full use of the 36 square metres
of space, all the functions of daily life can be variably added or remo-
ved. For this, working, living, cooking, eating, taking showers and
sleeping are all accommodated on about ten square metres of the
total area along the outer walls, whereby the areas can be indivi-
functionless area in the centre of the room in a targeted manner.
Thus, residents can enjoy a 28-square-metre bathroom, study, living
room, dining room, bedroom or kitchen – without having to maintain
a 168-square-metre flat. The surrounding textile walls, which make
this multiple occupancy possible, dissolve into different layers, from
opaque to transparent, and expose objects and furniture as required,
one after the other or even in parallel. The outermost opaque layer –
the classic Willow Bough curtain by William Morris from 1895 – is
available in four different shades and has a significant impact on the
room, with its ornament of stylised leaf motifs acting as a space-dis-
solving element. In just a few simple steps, the appearance of the mo-
nospace can thus be quickly changed not only visually, but the new
living typology can also be adapted to the most diverse needs of the
Grundriss Schlafen • Floor plan Sleeping people living here.
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