Apartment Design | Tartu Rebase Street | Estonia | Atelier Thomas Pucher

The villa-type has changed over the centuries. Long after Palladio made an icon with the Villa Rotonda in 1571 it was Mies who set the standards for villas in the 20th century with the Villa Tugendhat in 1930 and the Barcelona Pavilion in 1929. Still in our days the single family house a sometimes romantic vision of the villa - is the most wanted living type; more than 50% of our population want to have it or at least dream of it (Despite of the high costs and influence on our environment).........more

Villa H | Single Family House Design In Graz | Austria | Designed By Atelier Thomas Pucher

Net area: 375 m²,
construction: February 2004
completed: April 2005
Team: Thomas Pucher, Gerald Brencic, Wilhelm Eder, Erich Ranegger *
Construction Management: Jörg Viertl / Rudolf and 4 Partners Project Management
Building services: Bernhard Goggin
Statics: Hartmuth Petschnigg / engineering firm Petschnigg

The frame contains the main living areas and in the form of furniture and walls skilfully setting of various rhythm of the beautiful views. Hence, when passing through the house not only the direction of sunlight changes, but also the view from the urban to direct view of Graz in the living room into a romantic, natural look to the green hills around St. Veit from the bathroom.

The house requires three materials for implementation:

1. The leveled completely smooth and shiny white frame painted concrete
2. the floor and the rear wall of coarse sandstone.
3. 80% of the exterior walls are made of pure glass

The house offers almost a prototype of a response to the buildability of scenic outstanding properties: the properties of the land are not destroyed with the building (the villa in prestige and nobility but without any reference to the environment) intensified, but by the way of building the first and made fully alive.

The base of the building provides space for children and guest rooms as well as features such as wine cellar, sauna and conservatory. On the roof of the building, directly above the entrance hangs an additional room that is solely dedicated to the meditative and to enjoy the view........more