Giessen House
Designed for a site formerly occupied by a mews house, located between parallel rows of townhouses in the town of Giessen in central Germany, this project was always going to be about taking a set of established architectural principles and applying them to the creation of an enclosed domestic universe. At ground floor level, while daily life and lines of sight extrude freely beyond the walls of the house to colonise the entirety of the plot, the atmosphere is purposefully introspective. On the upper floors, the emphasis shifts to elevated vistas and successive recalibration of the dialogue between interior space and the fall of natural light.
Project team
Jan Hobel
Photography
Harry Crowder