“The “house” is right on the outskirts of the city centre, and not too far from that graffiti-lined canal that could so easily have been Vienna’s Seine. It’s right amongst several streets of modernist apartment “blocks”. But as you can imagine, it couldn’t be more different.
To begin with, the transition between the connecting building and the “house” is pure whimsy, as if the building has somehow caught a strange disease that is turning its square walls, drab colours and straight lines into a weird architectural “organism”.
Every apartment in the “house” can be identified by the fact that on the outside of that part of the building it is painted in its own colour. And the “line” defining the apartment from the others around it is anything but straight.
It also sprouts its own mini-forest of greenery. As you can imagine, when you’re walking down the street, you can identify the place at least five blocks away.”