An Apartment on Bruchstrasse
An Apartment on Bruchstrasse is an architectural design project in the old town of Luzern, Switzerland. The apartment modestly merges with the context of the old European street, fitting in by adapting to its surrounding buildings' scale and standing out with the simplistic beauty of a perforated brick facade in grey.
My Role:
The apartment design project was completed for the Construction and Design Studio with Professor Yves Dussilier at Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland.
Project Timeline:
1 semester: September 2016 - February 2017
Project Typology:
An academic resedential architectural design project.
Project Focus:
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Lazer cut working models for space exploration
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Working model photography and post-production
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Construction drawing and detailing
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1:1 construction detailing
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Hands-on lime plaster material and texture exploration
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Working model space exploration for the living room with the loggia and the Erker window
Working model space exploration for the washroom with a Hamam bath
1:1 Sill Detail
The project's focus was creating the 1:1 sill detail for stopping water and frost from entering the insulation of the cavity walls but letting the light in through the perforated facade for a hamam like bathing experience in an apartment.
Construction Details
Working model space exploration for the washroom with a Hamam bath
The Erker
The context of a European street presented the limitation of naturally lit spaces only on the front facade. The erker window (bay window) became a perfect solution for letting in the natural light and generating a view of the street from the interiors as erker window protrudes out of the facade on a cantilever. Multiple iterations of the erker profile were done using working models pictures to explore the interior space created.
Concept rendering for the erker space exploration using textures.
The final erker space rendering. A scale model photograph post-processed to depict material textures and spatial context
The hexagonal profile of the erker window evolved to a clean rectangle for maximizing the street view from the interior space and minimizing mullions of the glass, fixing details for a clean and seamless facade from outside.
Street Section
Detail section of the erker window for jointless glass fenestrations on the facade.
Deliverables
The list of final deliverables consisted of a 6m x 1.8m handmade sheet, a material pallet including lime plaster interior finishes, wood for flooring, grey concrete blocks for the lazer cut facade texture samples, and two working model interior view renderings.
Plaster material pallet for interior finishes
