House R in H - Wedge House

House R in H – Wedge House
Private house in Hille/Minden, Germany

A point of reference in variety

Scenic uniqueness all to often suffers from being surrounded by a very ordinary variety of architecture. In general the detached house targets at ‘uniqueness’, too – though a very individual, or rather commercially shaped uniqueness. This is also true for the mountain range of the Wiehengebirge, located next to 150 km of the northern German lowlands. The house is situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the Wiehengebirge and upgraded by the Midland Canal with its vegetated banks. The surplus of uniqueness without any consent does not lead to an appealing, specific situation, shaped by scenery and architecture. It leads to an undesigned chaos of form, colour and natural as well as urbanistic space.
At this place there is introduced an additional architectural element, but his design demonstrates a halt, a standstill. It contrasts the jolly airiness of an undirected collage of everything with architecturally established urbanistic targets. A white signal for the possibilities of unity in variety, the argument for an essentially different, better treatment of the scenery. Not by raising the educational voice, but with the great space and freedom of modern living. For authorisation reasons the roof had to be pitched. But it is not a red, yellow, black or blue saddleback roof. The inside follows the outside form and thus creates an island of silence amid chaos. The occupants immerse themselves in the treasure of an undreamt of quality of living conditions.