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Stephan Maria Lang's L019 Project

Stephan Maria Lang's L019 Project is a classic modern residence in Munich suburbia, designed for a big family with four children and a dog. The ground level features an open kitchen, dining, and living space that opens up to the large garden and two widely covered terraces with a fire place. The upper floor contains the sleeping rooms for the children and a separated area for the parents. A sunken courtyard and a large skylight let daylight into the basement with an indoor pool. The windmill-shaped white body builds a stark contrast to the rough natural stone cladding on parts of the facade.

The reinforced concrete structure of the house is highly insulated and clad with plaster walls and rough stone. Huge steel beams enable large cantilevered roofs. The open floor of the ground floor can be divided by large sliding doors to separate the kitchen, dining, and living area, enabling the family to react to different occasions, to open or to close sections for guests.

Light and shadow, orientation to the sun, and different garden spaces were the most important aspects of the design strategy. These determined the orientation of the rooms, their form and size, and the arrangement of windows and walls. The hardest task was to incorporate the huge volume of the building into a neighborhood consisting of small houses. The building was given a smaller appearance by dissolving the volume into three wings with huge cantilevered roofs.

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