该联排住宅位于柏林中心的弗里德里希斯韦德区，建筑师David Chipperfield借鉴了英格兰近两个世纪的城镇住宅设计理念，以传统的城市元素如房屋、庭院、街区、街道和广场为基础，开发了这个新的城区。尽管该住宅地块狭长，但通过宽敞的房间高度来实现了宽敞的空间。该住宅的立面采用垂直的长方体构成，突出了纵向构成的重要性。虽然从材料上看，立面几乎是被动的，但垂直长方体的组合形成了深度和雕塑感。该住宅将用作家庭住宅和工作室，旨在超越联排住宅的氛围限制。
Within the context of the urban development of central Berlin, the district of 'Friedrichswerder' has been developed based on the guidelines 'Planwerk Innenstadt', drawn up by the Senate Department for Urban Development. Historic areas of urban development, such as England's noted townhouse settlements of the last two centuries, have served as inspiration for the new district in Berlin. The return to the historic urban make-up, in which traditional urban elements such as house, courtyard, block, street, and square constitute the skeletal structure, formed the basis of the 'Planwerk Innenstadt' guidelines.
Within the tight restrictions of a deep and narrow lot, the house achieves generosity through room height. The qualities of natural light and space are more important than the optimization of surface area and flexibility. The location of the staircase on the facade, unusual for a townhouse, highlights the significance of the vertical aspect of the project. While from a material point of view, the facade is almost passive, the composition of vertical cuboids with glazed fronts creates depth and a sculptural quality. The house will be used as a family home with an atelier and attempts to transcend beyond the atmospheric constriction of the typology.
