Apartments and Studios in Cologne

Abstract

In this project the architects solved the task of creating attic-type living quarters and studios — in other words, transforming characteristic features of 19th-century industrial architecture into contemporary architecture, via an indirect route by using a module. For their design, Messrs Brandhuber and Kniess chose a modular, abstract framework as an information medium which in reality is transformed into the spatial qualities of a factory floor whose benefits are spaciousness [both horizontally and vertically] plus good illumination and flexibility.