The choice of the site based made based on the proportions of my chosen GAN image with a continuous ground floor. The site is a unique location in the city giving the opportunity for the building to open up on 3 sides which is rare in the dense Altstadt. The existing building gave the initial volume in which the project could be developed. My research for the spatial translation of the image focused on the relation between the vertical layers and the horizontal elements. I experimented with different possibilities of how this tripartite facade could be composed changing the depth and limits of the facade layers and also changing the lengths and thickness of the cornices.
Once the volume was defined, the approach was of rehabilitating and keeping the facades the existing facades in a very sensitive manner. Following this logic, the idea was to express the interior spaces with the potentialities of the open and closed parts of the facades. The variations in the sizes of the windows on each floor give clues to the interior program. The colossal windows give the possibility of having double-high living rooms while the smaller windows in the top and bottom parts could be the more intimate spaces.