A Single-family residence with garden. 150 m2 living area, terrace, office, carport. House with controlled living space ventilation (passive house).

My Cousin's House, image courtesy Martin Mostböck

My Cousin's House, image courtesy Martin Mostböck

The residence was designed for doing-it-yourself. Shape, geometry and internal organisation are inspired by the movement of the inhabitants, the sun and the moon. The body and shape of the house are designed on one hand to open up big and broad windows on two facades to the garden to bring in as much light as possible to the living areas. On the other hand the shape helps to shade the house itself when the sun is rising to the zenith and give as much possible shadow to help control natural temperature in the living spaces. Another goal was to get the surrounding nature and the garden “into” the building to make the user feel the seasons, and give the possibility “nearly” to touch the elements (rain, sun, grass, snow, etc.)

My Cousin's House, image courtesy Martin Mostböck

My Cousin's House, image courtesy Martin Mostböck

+ Project facts

floor area: app. 150,0 M2
planning time: 2004 – 2005
completion: 2010
plot area: 665 m²
building area: 128 m²
building volume: 875 m³
sustainability:
Energy system: gas-calorific value boiler,
Solar collector panels for warm water and heating
Controlled living space ventilation – passive house
terrace, carport, office spaces
budget: app. 225.000.- €
location: Oberpullendorf, Austria

+ All images courtesy Martin Mostböck

msX2 has completed the MS_SM House.

Sensible project wandering for a staid relationship between functional spaces and interior design aesthetic answers. A running structured surface, strongly emphasized in its materiality, surrounds the living space and constitutes the daytime – nighttime frame, with sliding doors pointing out links between areas and functions. The boundary is highlighted even by the materic transition between the two floors: structured stoneware tiles to natural wooden [durmast] planks.

MS_SM House, image courtesy msX2

MS_SM House, image courtesy msX2

Everyday living functions are located through changing heights and different light sources: cook, dine, converse, sleep.

MS_SM House, image courtesy msX2

A comfortable room where every furnishing item talks with the case through the color: it constitutes, as singular episode, the catalyst characterizing element for the surrounding environment.

MS_SM House, image courtesy msX2

+ Project credits / data

Concept and design : 2011
Completion : 2012
Approx surface : 120mq
Photographic credits : michele simonetti [msX2]

+ About [msX2]

A dynamic architecture and design award winning Italian young firm developing experimentation, innovation, technology and material research, new living and socializing spaces analysis trough multidisciplinary and multilevel designing, in a continuous quest for a emotional exciting linear style, simple and surprising. A workshop where several experiences from many architectural, designing and landscape fields can converge and focus into a close cooperation between different professional figures, such as architects, artists, furniture and landscape designers, engineers.

+ All images courtesy [msX2]