URBAN VILLA 2B ARCHITECTES

摘要

As urban typologies go, the townhouse and the apartment block may seem to be irreconcilable opposites -offering spacious and expensive individualism on the one hand, versus a more economical communality on the other-yet the Swiss practice 2b Architectes has contrived to unite the two in a single structure in Lausanne. The concrete envelope of the block avoids the drab uniformity of some postwar mass housing, despite employing the same material, by virtue of its irregular plan and fenestration, and its different surface treatments: shuttered, polished or granular.