The task was to construct a detached house in the best inner-city location. The plot to be built on rises by about the height of one storey from the northern boundary, where the access road runs, to the south and it opens to the south on to a level area. One major aim of the design was to create an optimum sequence of rooms from the public to the private to provide the highest possible spatial quality in each phase. 

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Architects: Spado Architects

Location: Klagenfurt, Austria

Area: 165.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Kurt Kuball

Project Managers: Harald Weber, Sebastian Horvath

Assistant: Lukas Kucher
Structural Consultant: Martin Mitterdorfer

Site Area: 723 m2

© Kurt Kuball

The task was to construct a detached house in the best inner-city location. The plot to be built on rises by about the height of one storey from the northern boundary, where the access road runs, to the south and it opens to the south on to a level area. One major aim of the design was to create an optimum sequence of rooms from the public to the private to provide the highest possible spatial quality in each phase. 

© Kurt Kuball

The building itself consists of an east-west orientated two-storey base divided by a projecting roof that separates it from the street and protects it to ...