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The small-scale apartment building is mass-conceived so that it can be placed into typical small-town residential development without its mass being disruptive. The basic principles for shaping the building can be summarized into the following guidelines:

• to preserve, to the maximum extent possible, the possibility of independent living for the residents of the building.
• to impart to the building the character of apartment or family housing, rather than an institution.
• to respect the increased need for older persons to use the building and its immediate surroundings throughout the day.
• to relocate the common and healthcare facilities of the building to a non-disruptive and undisturbed position in the basement.
• from the first floor, to address the building as a regular corridor-based apartment building with a naturally lit corridor that allows for not only communication but also a social function.
• to mass the building into five basic volumes - a lower two-story volume and four higher transverse wings with relatively small floor areas.
• to laterally shift the transverse wings containing horizontal communication cores approximately half a construction module relative to the narrower mass, and in the resulting “corners,” to place both main entrances to the building: an entrance to the residential building on the east and, at the first basement level, an entrance to the operational and social facilities of the house on the west.

The building is divided into six basic volumes: elongated two-story masses, four higher transverse wings, and a wing for the community hall recessed into the terrain with a green roof. The diverse scale of the structure responds to the varying size of neighboring buildings. At the same time, it achieves optimal lighting for the apartments and communal spaces with minimal overshadowing of neighboring structures. The chosen operational scheme also provides the necessary diversity in the degree of public and private character of the communal spaces and a different degree of openness and closure for the spaces belonging to the individual apartments.