Photographer: Martin Lesjak

Graz Apartments

Heritage Apartment Extension
 

Location
Graz, Austria

Timeline
2000-01

Team
Refresh* in collaboration with INNOCAD

The heritage code dictated ‘no change’ to the streetscape of this apartment building. However, the client brief doubled the number of units, from four to eight. The solution was to create four modern and unconventional loft-style apartments. The design placed new pre-fab timber structures on top of the existing building to create a cantilevered structure, of minimalist appearance, which is near invisible from street level.