dupli.casa in Ludwigsburg by Jürgen Mayer H.

From the ongoing creation of Jürgen Mayer H., few would guess that he is an architect working in the cold and rational Berlin. J.M.H. shatters the notion of boxy German architecture with his buildings across Europe. One such example, the family house dupli.casa (also nicknamed Villa MRMM) near Ludwigsburg, was completed in rough construction on December 14, 2006. The author describes the project as follows: “The new building is based on an archaeological imprint of family history, as the existing villa has been constantly modified and expanded since 1984 with each new family member, creating an unexpected and peculiar outline. This contour was duplicated, vertically lifted, and slightly rotated towards the original garden floor, resulting in one large public area - a spatial continuum - with its center in a two-story lobby. The variously shaped shell of the building allows for large-format cut-outs with unique views of the old town of Marbach with the German Literary Archive on the opposite side of the Neckar River.” Link>