6 ideas to create additional living space

Create additional living space - add on, saddle up, stack up, convert the barn or just a mini house. We present six ideas to you.

Table of contents Table of contents 6 ideas to create additional living space

• 1. Stand on the roof
• 2. Stack up
• 3. Saddle across
• 4. Place the extension next to it
• 5. Add room
• 6. Replace barn

Table of contents Table of contents 6 ideas to create additional living space

• 1. Stand on the roof
• 2. Stack up
• 3. Saddle across
• 4. Place the extension next to it
• 5. Add room
• 6. Replace barn

1. Stand on the roof

The time has come for mini houses. Single with a new job, fresh love? Cabinet on the hook, set elsewhere - on the roof, in the yard or garden. The house-to-go needs only one parking space, it is only connected to the existing supply network. Counter in between: Partial costs recorded. Architects have already borrowed the term “parasite” from biologists. But no parasite: owners can rent or sell space or a living box.

The view over the city roofs, a lot of glass, in front of a roof terrace: such objects achieve top prices and are suitable as a financial injection for renovating old buildings.

The square shape with 34 square meters costs around 119, 000 euros, the square with 44 square meters around 129, 000 euros. Architects: and8. Concept / interior: Werner Aisslinger. More information: www.loftcube.net

There are more mini houses in our house ideas.

Mini house to go

Photo: Loftcube / Steffen Jänicke

2. Stack up

The old Regensburg building had a roof shape like the neighboring house on the right: 120 square meters of living space were too scarce for the large family. Architect Kurt Werner demolished the store and saddled two floors: 81 square meters more. The top floor is three meters away from the street and cannot be seen from the alley - as required by the old town statutes. Graduation resulted in a terrace with a panoramic view of the cathedral. Conversion costs with granny 225, 000 euros.

More pictures and construction data.

Memory dump

Photo: Thilo Härdtlein

3. Saddle across

Buildings get stuck in Waidhofen to save space. The hipped roof on the left already belongs to the neighbor: growth only upwards. Hertl architects took the roof away and put the dark, shingled bar with the family room and kitchen across it. The middle-aged plinth shines white. A terrace remained open to the side. Such an offset brings a lot of living quality and keeps the house facade low - that's why a smaller limit distance is sufficient.

Offset, plinth construction

Photo: Paul Ott

4. Place the extension next to it

The turn of the century villa in a Freiburg suburb was to be enlarged. The other semi-detached house is on the left, but on the right

was space. The back garden remained untouched.

On the street side, the old building presents its chocolate side with an impressive facade decor. The slope side is undemanding. A typical city villa of this construction period and therefore under monument protection. Complementing requires tact.

The concept - Bernhard Vogel from the Erne-Vogel-Hug office designed a simple extension and gave the old house its appearance. If you think away the magnificent facade, bay window and roof, the structure that stands next to it peels out - an inner relationship, so to speak. The new building turns out of alignment with the garage, parallel to the border. So you can still see the bay tower from every street direction - and there remains a maximum, respectful distance between old = " and new. An intermediate wing there discreetly couples both buildings: as a spacious entrance to the new single-family house in the old, tree-covered residential area.

Cultivation

Photo: markusloeffelhardt.de

5. Add room

The Stadtreihenhaus in Basel sits shoulder to shoulder with the neighbors directly on the sidewalk. When the siblings got it, the ground-floor two-room office was to become a single apartment for the sister. Difficult because there was not enough space. Despite the winter garden, which was also ailing. Architect Martin Wagner doubled the living space in an elegant way. He transformed the offices into kitchens, dining areas and bathrooms, tore down the winter garden, built larger for a combined living room and bedroom. Furniture is custom-made, for example the sofa nestles in a niche. The kink in the outer wall was necessary because of the old rear exit: access to the mini yard, where the garbage cans are, covered by a half-high wall. The roof of the sleeping zone serves as a balcony.

Cultivation

Photo: Reiner Blunck

6. Replace barn

The oldest half-timbered house in Leichlingen is located directly on the medieval market square. Central in place - and in traffic. The old barn on the gable was torn down. Instead, architect Ulof Rückert designed a well-protected, heat and noise-protected bedroom cube, roof terrace as a replacement for the garden, balcony in front and garage underneath. The cube closes on the street side. Grown by 36.5 square meters to a total of 162.5 square meters, conversion and new building costs extrapolated to today: 160, 000 euros.

cube

Photo: Ulof Rückert

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