The need to form a new place with urban qualities in this environment was essential. Considering the requirements of the building type (housing with a large number of equally oriented apartments} an orthogonal grid of L-shaped buildings was developed with south and west oriented apartments. The access corridors on the north and east facades and vertical circulation cores in the corners are naturally lit. This grid is superimposed by the diagonal path, which leads to a certain distortion within the rectangular system. The enclosure of the courtyards is contrasted by dynamic views along this diagonal axis which still serves as a public pathway through the site. The intention was not to build a group of single buildings but an entity. This led to the use of unifying formal means: the intense red colour of the facade (mineral pigments of the same colour as old houses in the city), the connecting roof structures between the parts and the same absolute height of all roofs and eaves. Progressing down, the buildings seem to "grow" out of the hill. Several modifications were necessary to adjust the scheme to the varying needs and budgets of two different clients. Student housing for the "Protestantische Alumneumsstiftung Regensburg" with rooms for 456 students, with an average of 18 m2 per student, had to be built within a very tight budget. The rooms are distributed among units of different sizes, from studio-apartments to 6-room-flats. Each unit has a cooking facility and a bathroom. Housing for employees of the medical faculty of the University of Regensburg with 180 studio-apartments (28 sq.m per person) with bathroom and kitchen area. These were made within a comparatively tight budget. According to these different requirements the two types vary in depth and axial spacing, materials and equipment. The student housing has a communal balcony-zone, serving as interactive community space. The employee housing has individual balconies providing a higher degree of privacy. The balconies facing the courtyards serve as shades for the apartments. As the bathroom and kitchen units are either round or reduced in height a transparency is created within and through the apartments.
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