The two apartment buildings are part of a district plan of the city in the central area of the former artificial ice rink in Chur. They are dedicated to affordable housing with five 4- to 5-room apartments and six compact 3-room apartments each. The floor plan typology is characterized by the parallel layers of rooms and living spaces, which build up an east-west through-connected living with outdoor spaces on two sides. The living layer can be expanded by a switching room into a three-sided oriented, meandering space that deliberately eliminates the classic day and night zones in favor of flexible living forms and offers space for different family compositions.
The construction consists of a multi-story, monolithic building envelope made of insulating blocks with load-bearing and insulating functions. The single-stone masonry and the mineral plaster tie in with the quality of the plastered solid construction of the residential buildings in the neighborhood, which were built at the beginning of the 20th century. The vertical outdoor space layer, the opening proportions, and the mineral textured plaster with its grain variations are incorporated into the facade design.
