AllesWirdGut Architects won the international architectural competition for residential estate in Luxembourg. The project is part of the Quartier du Grünewald masterplan which, in the course of the development of the Kirchberg Plateau, 700 residential units are to be constructed in 21 buildings. The design of the 56 apartments includes doctors’ offices and a kindergarten. More images and architect’s description after the break.
A simple architectural trick is all that is needed to create high-quality apartment units within the existing masterplan: South-facing breaches transform the linear blocks prescribed by the masterplan into townhouse-like volumes. This way, all apartments and breakfast kitchens are given two exterior facades with different orientations, one of which always is south. At the same time, the building shape makes stairwell neighbors locatable: each apartment is thus assigned its unique specific place within the estate at large.
