Grafenwörth Lake Quarter

Therefore, our first strategy was to clearlyincrease the length of the shoreline while maintaining the size ofthe area of water: the peninsula becomes an island, bays and spits ofland are formed out of the semi-circular shoreline! Most of thehouses have the garden at the front, in the direction of thelakeshore, with a small private strand. However, a few of them, whoseshoreline runs north-east, sit directly on a paved shore with aterrace that hovers above the water line. Their garden is in thesouthwest. Care was taken that residents of those houses withoutdirect access to the lake need take only a very short route to reacha swimming jetty or beach. The eastern section is on the canal –with a view extending into the distance.

Through this range of options alone, the housescan be highly individualised. This aspect can even be furtherheightened as the houses’ “end facades” can be designed aswished by choosing from a number of different timber and glasselements.

However,it is envisaged that what are called the “building envelopefigures” should all share the same materiality – whether whiterender or light-coloured facade panels.

Theresult is an interplay of individuality and communality – like whatwe can observe in those historic villages or town centres that wetoday regard as particularly attractive examples of a culture ofbuilding that has developed gradually over the course of time.