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Design process Given that the existing house has two ‘wings' with different roof levels, we started f

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Site, program and organization To consider building a new dwelling on top of an existing house is a r

Tectonics and construction The conceptual and geometric striation was translated into a series of out

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All the different systems are interdependent and it was vital to work with a specialist contractor th

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The lower Western box became the living zone with the upper Eastern box to contain the master bedroom

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The split level organization leads to the lengthening of parts of the stairs to form a topography for

We challenged the standard pitched and overhanging roof and instead developed a rich texture of diffe

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From this external staircase the rhythm of each step was then proliferated as frames that became defo

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The project is formed by a series of steel and timber frames that deform to recreate the smooth hills

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Text description provided by the architects. Esker Haus (esker=stratified geological formation) is a