Office for Architecture Stocker designed two houses, one existing and one new, in Engelsbrand, Black Forest, Germany, with a pool within a landscaped garden.
The new house, an exact hexahedron, is approached with essential simplicity, made of exposed concrete and an interior that plays with voids, low and two story ceilings on a fluid space with a restrained palette of materials, tones and furnishings.
Description from Office for Architecture Stocker:
Phase One > Existing House ‘Phanta Rhei’
Swiftly and with every shower
There’s change along the valley’s rim,
Alas, in the selfsame river
A second time you cannot swim.
…”
Permanence in Change, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (To Heraklit)
after Aristotle
Phase Three >>> Philosophical Landscape Garden
Gushes and gleams for you out of the earth,
As, with shuddering long, you
Hurl yourself down to the flames of the Etna.
…”
Empedokles by Friedrich Hölderlin
Source: Archdaily