Penthouse from Space
Originally published at Miss Design. You can comment here or there.
The penthouse is really GREAT. It was designed by Elke Meissl and her partner & husband, Roman Delugan, as a rooftop addition for their family, but it feels more like a spaceship that has landed on the roof and will move to a new destination as soon as it gets what it wants. This Alien sense of glomming is particularly evident in a cantilevered section that sticks out the back of the penthouse and looms above the building’s courtyard. It connects to the home’s main stairwell and contains the entry foyer. From there the apartment unfolds not in a conventional hierarchy of rooms but rather in a sequence of vectors that rush in and out toward the surrounding roofscapes of Vienna’s Wieden district, combining a sense of perpetual motion and vertigo.
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