247 Rolling Stone The same goes for the apartments’ peculiar layouts, which would probably send shivers down the spines of the professors at the University of Technology, so defiant of all the rules that can be learned, except that they just happen to work. They open, expand and turn where optically desirable. Because the interior spaces are generous, the designer has not been guided by the laws of “existenzminimum”. From a utility point of view, there are many solutions available. If required, the bathroom shower is suspended from the façade like a glass box, and anyone who steps into it can feel as if they are floating in the void above the city. Many modern optical tricks and games are incorporated into the complex composition. The garden’s large communal pool, complete with Jacuzzi, seems to have been cut out of the picture with a box cutter, connecting water and sky like an infinity pool, while at night, subtle lights shine from the surrounding bushes. The rooms of the ground-floor villa apartment also seek a connection with the beautifully landscaped outdoor spaces at every turn. Inside and outside, without optical borders, the only differences are created by the large glass walls and the rooms’ own climate… …A baroquely ecstatic display of light and form can be seen from beyond the glass. That is, could be seen, since the garden, the trees and bushes of the slice of landscape that surrounds the house conceal just enough to allow this revelation to be practised as a one-sided pleasure. But whoever enters here will find a unified style, a precise and consistent expression of the characteristic tastes of an era outside in the garden, on the terrace, in the flowthrough spaces, and then inside in the living room,
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