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With a wide, spreading movement, the broken building body searches for its position in the park. It mediates between the found fragment of the block edge on the one side and the multi-storied buildings on the other; it calms the surrounding heterogeneous housing development scene and swings itself away from the street line into the broad landscape. Situated right on the bank of the Rhine, the park and living in the park become the central theme. All spaces open towards both sides of the park, no external wall hinders the view into the green surroundings and with it the park becomes a part of the interior spaces. The continuous living space with riverside balconies reacts with the slanted walls to every change of light and amplifies for the inhabitants the different moods of the day. The openness and transparency of the building body is modulated by the glass parapet walls that protect the privacy of the inhabitants with their green tint. The angle of the glass plates produces, together with the buckling of the building’s body, complex reflections and allows the viewer to become part of the building and, likewise, the building part of the environment.
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