Private House in Munich by Studio Mark Randel
Private House in Munich stands in the Bogenhausen district of Munich, Germany, where a corner plot meets a small square. Studio Mark Randel arranges three cuboid volumes to engage the street and fold back toward a private garden, making a house that reads quiet from the outside and generous within. It’s a residence tuned to its crossroads setting, aligned to neighbors yet oriented to daylight and calm.
This private home is in Munich’s Bogenhausen neighborhood, a residential district to the northeast of the city center, not far from the River Isar and the English Garden. The house occupies a corner site on a small square at an intersection in an area characterized by buildings of various architectural styles.
The house is composed of three staggered cuboids that respond to the building’s surroundings. The two outer volumes align with the eaves of the neighboring houses, while a central volume rises above them in a visual nod to the church tower across the street. Constructed in brick and finished in a sand-colored render, the house presents a largely blank façade to the outside world, turning instead toward the rear garden. A continuous wall in the same color as the house wraps around the perimeter of the plot.
This otherwise blank wall is given articulation by the large oak garage and entrance doors. At the corner facing the intersection, the house steps back from the wall to form an entrance courtyard. To the rear, the building frames a sheltered garden. Large windows overlooking the garden fill the living spaces with daylight. The staggered arrangement of the structure is also visible inside. On the ground floor, the entrance hall assumes a central position, from which all rooms are accessible. An oval-shaped staircase leads to the private rooms on the first floor and the rooftop terrace above.
To create a clear and calm home, a limited palette of materials was selected: oak floorboards in the living areas and terrazzo for the stairs as well as the floors and surfaces in the kitchen and bathrooms. Grey bricks, laid in a herringbone pattern, are used in the garden, courtyard and rooftop. The choice of materials as well as the building’s reduced design language emphasize the character of the house.
Photography by Simon Menges
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