PROJECT DATA
| PROJECT NAME | Wohnbebauung Heiligenstrasse · Lahr |
|---|---|
| LOCATION | Heiligenstrasse · Lahr · Germany |
| PROGRAM | residential development in four construction phases · BA II–IV: four new apartment buildings with 42 apartments · BA V: conversion of the former printing works with 38 apartments · shared underground parking · courtyards · play areas · landscape design across BA II–V |
| CLIENT | Emely Bauträger GmbH |
| SIZE | BA II–IV: 42 apartments · living area 3,528.60 m² · gross floor area 7,818.91 m² including underground areas · gross volume 25,757.91 m³ · underground garage 3,710.47 m² with 103 spaces serving all four construction phases · overall development: 80 apartments · 120 parking spaces |
| SCOPE | architecture for BA II–IV · landscape design and parking planning for BA II–V · concept design · design development · building permit planning |
| TEAM | archimedialab ltd |
| COST | construction value BA II–IV EUR 4.47 million · structural-work cost EUR 1.79 million |
| STATUS | building permit amendment 2019 · design completed · partially realised · two houses completed · remaining buildings unrealised |
| CONCEPT | LITTLE LIBERTIES Create little liberties within extensive restrictions. The urban arrangement and building plots were prescribed. Their geometry had to be followed precisely, leaving no latitude to shift or alter the building volumes. A derelict industrial building had been demolished except for its ground-floor structure. This retained level and its structural grid had to become the base for the new housing development. The inherited industrial grid was fundamentally unsuitable for conventional housing and became a central architectural constraint. Within these extensive restrictions, the project creates little liberties: shared spaces and play areas between the prescribed volumes, and individual residential quality within them. The title is deliberately ambiguous. “Little” describes the modest scale of each liberty while also suggesting scarcity: there may be too few liberties, or less freedom than the situation requires. “Liberties” refers both to genuine spatial freedoms and to the careful act of taking small liberties within strict rules… |
