029 Apartment Building along a Party Wall

Competition: 1984
Realization: 1987-1988

The new apartment building continues the grain of the quarter’s courtyard development, extending the façade of the existing wing. With the party wall forming the new apartment building’s eastern side, the organization of the rooms follows the linear configuration that contains a central staircase. Both the attic and the southern end of the building are treated as more independent configurationally elements, marked by slender supports and continuous glazing.

The lower two floors are entirely clad with oak panels that form, together with the turned oak columns, a “surface” with varying depth, a kind of timber spatial layer between interior (living room) and exterior (garden).
Herzog & de Meuron, 1988

Drawings

Team

Partners: Jacques Herzog; Pierre de Meuron
Project Team: Mario Meier (Project Architect); Michael Smolenicki

Facts

Client: Hochbauamt Basel-Stadt, Basel, Switzerland
Planning: Construction Management: Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd., Basel, Switzerland; Structural Engineering: Helmut Pauli, Ingenieurbüro Schaub, Basel, Switzerland
Building Data: Gross floor area (GFA): 9'041 sqft, 840 sqm; Footprint: 2'195 sqft, 204 sqm; Gross volume (GV): 94'890 cbft, 2'687 cbm

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