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Häuser Award 2010
2010 HÄUSER Award: Future living is flexible, customized and practical
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2010 HÄUSER Award: Future living is flexible, customized and practical
The winning houses are in Berlin and Amsterdam.
The future is already underway: HÄUSER magazine was looking for innovative family homes, which stand up to the challenges of the 21st century and has now awarded three outstanding projects with the 2010 HÄUSER AWARD. The most important criteria for the award were that, in view of an increasingly fragmented and ageing society, the houses have rooms which provide high value in use, allow flexible utilisation and express individuality. “The architecture of the 21st century must respond to the rapidly changing living conditions and patterns”, explained Wolfgang Nagel, editor-in-chief of HÄUSER. “Our expectations were suitably high, but the winners we selected from the 200 designs entered, met them with ease.”
First place
First place in the 2010 HÄUSER Award went to the architect couple from Berlin, Jens Ludloff and Laura Fogarasi-Ludloff. They built an urban terraced house on a trapezoidal area of land on the former site of the Berlin Wall on Bernauer Straße. It boasts generous living space and a high level of individuality. The fully glazed south façade provides excellent lighting, atmospheric living and a high level of energy efficiency. According to the jury, in addition to the very urban quality and high standard of interior design of the house, its ground-breaking concept of space is impressive.
Second place
Second place went to the design by Paul de Ruiter, who created a lake house for a Dutch art collector couple near Amsterdam, which opens up to the outdoors and provides plenty of space for their works of art. The kitchen, dining room and terrace flow into one another; in the middle of the living room, you feel as if you are in the garden, which stretches down to the lakeside. The jury judged that the villa achieved an elegant balance by marrying the wonderful location and the practical interests of the art-collecting clients.
Thrid place
In third place, the jury selected the design for a six-storey house and office block, which was built by Armand Grüntuch and Almut Ernst in the Mitte district of Berlin. Expansive rooms and high loggias combine the luxury of a villa with the flair of a city loft apartment. Like a modern home in the countryside, this town house has views of the surrounding greenery and even has small gardens in the courtyard and on the roof. The rural idyll and metropolitan lifestyle are closely bound together here like nowhere else.
The architecture magazine also introduces the winner and other entries from the competition online: www.haeuser.de/award2010