Haus der Gegenwart
The home of today is an experimental residential building on the site of the Federal Garden Show ( BuGa ) in Munich in 2005. It is the result of an architectural competition.
Competition
The SZ-Magazin organized in 2001, the architectural competition of the same name, and invited 100 architectural firms to submit ideas for the ideal home of today. Competition task was to design a house for four people, which lie on the outskirts of a central European city and 250 000 EUR building costs should not exceed. A realization was not originally planned.
An international jury selected 34 submitted designs. It was less about architectural details, as to the social responsibility of architecture. The jury consisted of: Bazon Brock, Jil Sander, Shigeru Ban ( architect), Jo Coenen (architect ), Peter Conradi (President of the Federal Chamber of Architects ), Kristin Feireiss (Aedes architecture gallery, Berlin), Terence Riley ( Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Matteo Thun ( designer and architect ), Gerhard Matzig ( architecture critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung) and Dominik Wichmann (chief editor SZ-Magazin ).
The design of André Poitiers won the first prize. The third prize went to Ortner & Ortner. The design of the Munich architectural office Allmann Sattler Steelers was awarded the second prize and finally realized.
As part of the Federal Horticultural Show 05 the house was built on a 500 sqm plot of the Federal Horticultural Show Grounds. It was created as a non-profit project of SZ Magazine, City of Munich, the Bavarian construction GmbH and the mining company land conservation Bayern eV It was completed in early 2005 and was open to the public during the National Garden Show.
According to the Federal Horticultural Show
Due to the current development plan and the exposed position of the building must not be used as a permanent residence, instead there were events such as exhibitions and workshops. End of June 2011, it was closed, then the house should be demolished. The end of 2011 gave the entrepreneur Martin Hippius the purchase of the building known, with the aim of relocating the building and build it in a Munich suburb again.
On July 6, 2012, the HausderGegenwart GmbH broke up, and the house came into the possession of Martin Hippius. After the revitalization of the house is likely to be reconstructed at Lake Starnberg.
Building
The House of the presence on two levels offers 200 m² of living space. The ground floor has three units are grouped around a space. The units have their own entrances, can be divided differently and show up as a separate, cubic structures. The open space between them is provided for vehicles. About the parking area is on the first floor of the central community dream kitchen. In this space open up the three steps of the residential units. Large, floor to ceiling patio doors leading to the three roof terraces on the residential units from the common room.
The house is a further development of a conventional single-family home due to its flexible use and networked control.
The ground floor units are not specified in its use. Sleep, child labor, hobby rooms or a granny flat are possible. Both parents with children as well as adult residential communities can live in the house. It can be used flexibly according to changing phases of life.
All electronic transactions in the house can be controlled centrally. The residents receive from the ( portable ) computer or mobile phone access to her house, even on the go. In addition to query the current status of the user lighting, windows, doors, blinds, heating, or as garden watering can adjust. Each resident can the house by radio trailer tell which room he or she is: meeting news by mail to the house to inform the recipient at the nearest screen. Lighting, room temperature or background music can be adapted to the preferences by default.