The four-story volume is stretched in one direction between fire walls, in the other between the front garden and the private garden created in 1929, at the same time as the construction of the single-family house. Due to the wooden casement windows specifically arranged for the four-story apartments and the turned supports, the content of decor leans on historic townhouses. The green space, reflected in the color of the plaster, was not intended to shield the flowing living spaces, but to permeably accommodate street and back, inside and outside. On the garden side, terraces and balconies project into the trees. Turned supports sit in the window openings to the street, which have varying widths. Joseph Felix Müller created a carving cast in fiber cement for their special form. The supports are detached, a moment that evokes the past allure and original gentility of the area.
Date: 2020-2022
Location: Rennweg 24, Basel
Program: owner-occupied apartment and rented apartments
Civil engineer: Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure, Basel
Building engineer/ Acoustics: Jauslin Stebler AG, Rheinfelden
HLSE, electrical: Ingenieurbüro Stefan Graf, Basel
Contractor: Bertschmann AG Bauunternehmung, Basel
Landscape Architect: Studio Céline Baumann, Basel
Artist: Josef Felix Müller