Jurcă Ștefan, k. Hadil
02/2021 – Studio Prof. Diébéndo Francis Kéré (TUM)
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, Patchwork The Building offers innovative, post-pandemic housing typologies. The project features modular cluster apartments with separate living, working, and communal spaces, adaptable to individual needs. The Patchwork Building in Munich exemplifies this concept, offering privacy, flexibility, and a strong sense of community, showcasing a forward-thinking approach to residential design.
The building explores new housing typologies, which would respond to the pandemic-related living and home-office working conditions. Two key points prevail:
- own research shows people in quarantine wish for a clearer separation between living and working within their apartments. Therefore, one of our main ideas was to divide regular apartments into private living and working modules, which would be physically separated through spaces accessible to people living on the same building level
- The concept can be taken a step further, by separating even more functionalities into modules (living, working, community spaces, wet rooms and outside areas more specifically) and generating bigger modular cluster apartments, in which co-habitants can quarantine together
Patchwork The Building occupies a strategic location at the convergence of Munich’s largest industrial district (which is undergoing a gentrification process), a semi-central residential area and expansive parklands along the Isar River. This prime setting makes it a unique and sought-after destination for commercial, cultural and recreational purposes, with convenient access to key transportation hubs. The location will contribute to its overall value as a desirable and dynamic place to live and work.
The building consists of modularly designed cluster apartments on each floor, which consist in living and working modules, as well as communal spaces and outdoor areas – these being separated from each other through circulation areas. Around the fixed wet cores and within the thermal building envelope, residents can freely restructure or adapt the modules to their individual needs. The goal is to tailor the cluster apartment to home office needs, separate living from work spaces, while simultaneously enhancing the sense of community within the residential complex floors.
⬤ Circulation
⬤ Working Modules
⬤ Living Modules
⬤ Outdoor Areas
