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Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno by Thomas Geissert

Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno by Thomas Geissert is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award di Ferru in Disignu d'Interiori Competition Category.


FerruInteriori· 2021

Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno

by Thomas Geissert

Client: Teamgeissert

A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Interiori Category

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The Design

About Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno

Architettonicamente, u scopu era di riorganizà e stanze in una nova struttura spaziale, di creà spaziosità è ampiezza in una zona è cubatura fissa, di trasfurmà versu u XXI sèculu. Questu hè statu ottenutu aumentendu e superfici finestrate. I parapetti sò stati parzialmente aperti à u livellu di u pianu per creà transizioni fluide da l'internu à l'esternu. A riduzzione estetica di forme, materiali è culori porta à una impressione generale armoniosa, chì hè sottulineata da un cuncettu discretu di culore è illuminazione. Una zona di benessere cù sauna hè stata installata in l'antica cisterna.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Ferru

Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. Bungalow Refurbishment Soggiorno hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Architecturally, the goal was to break up the rooms into a new spatial structure, to create spaciousness and expanse within a fixed area and cubature, and to incorporate the outdoors into the living area. This was achieved by increasing the window areas. Glass blocks were replaced with new windows and parapets were partially opened to floor level to create smooth transitions from inside to outside. Doors and walls were removed and passageways were opened to floor level. A sauna was installed in the former tank room, and a pool was integrated into the garden.
Dimensions & Packaging
180 squaremeters living space
Tags
Elegance, unobtrusive, minimal, reduced
Production Technology
The construction task was to renovate a bungalow from the 1960s in terms of energy and transform it into the 21st century in terms of design. From the installation of a solar thermal system, the installation of a water-bearing stove for heating support to the photovoltaic system, the building was brought up to the state of the art. The rainwater infiltration is done via an infiltration trench.
Design Challenge
During the renovation of the bungalow, with an extremely unfavorable ratio between room volume and envelope area, it was important to integrate as many alternative forms of energy as possible when renewing the building services:
- Hybrid heating system with heating water tank in combination with solar thermal energy
- water-bearing stove
- photovoltaic system
- underfloor heating and re-dimensioning of radiators
- new windows and doors
- infiltration trench for rainwater infiltration
- solar heating system for the new outdoor pool
Research
The challenge was to redesign an existing building in a way that preserved its character while allowing the new to emerge confidently yet harmoniously.
Inspiration
The style is a simple elegance and sophisticated, which pleases the owners, as an expression of architectural responsibility in the design and execution with a claim to durability in form and materiality. Black, slate flooring in the interior and exterior and smoked oak parquet in the sleeping areas characterize the spatial impression. The aesthetic reduction of forms, materials and colors lead to a harmonious overall impression, which is underlined by a discreet color and lighting concept.
Project Duration
The Project startet in 2012 in Langen (Hessen) Germany and finished in 2016
Operation Flow
The aesthetic reduction of forms, materials and colors lead to a harmonious overall impression, which is underlined by a discreet color and lighting concept. Small reminiscences as design breaks were deliberately used.
Team Members
Thomas Geissert
Image Credits
#1Wolfgang Uhlig
#2Wolfgang Uhlig
#3Wolfgang Uhlig
#4Wolfgang Uhlig
#5TEAMGEISSERT

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