Distinctive architecture and tapered spaces for optimized floor plans on a traffic island characterize not only the “Quartier im Haus”, but also the 2023 winner of the “Residential Building of the Year” architectural competition. More about the project by Basel-based Bachelard Wagner here.
For decades, the unused 1,200 square meter traffic island in Freiburg-Herdern lay fallow. Now a “neighborhood within a neighborhood” has been created here: a café, bicycle garages, car-sharing spaces with an e-charging station, Freiburg’s first indoor playground and 49 apartments consisting of 21 two-room, 21 three-room and seven five-room apartments – all suitable for families, barrier-free and integrative. The Basel-based firm Bachelard Wagner and the client Freiburger Stadtbau, the largest housing association in southern Baden, are responsible for the project. The triangular, eight-storey building is intended to create a diverse social structure that will have a positive impact on sustainable neighborhood development and facilitate neighborly coexistence. The focus is also on creating affordable living space close to the city center for integration and inclusion. To this end, the planners reshaped the striking architecture in order to optimize the floor plans without creating pointed rooms. From the outside, large, lintel-free windows and pronounced loggias for maximum natural lighting structure the building with its brick slips façade. The “Rennwegdreieck” also impressed the jury of “Wohnbauten des Jahres” (Callwey Verlag) in terms of ecology and climate protection thanks to the extensive green roof and the holistic heating concept.
