<h1>House of the Present</h1>

In 2001, a competition for the 'House of the Present' took place, in which the design 'Cast House' by Hamburg architect André Poitiers won. The project 'Good Times, Bad Times' by the Munich studio Allmann Sattler Wappner came in second but also received an award from the publishers Süddeutsche Zeitung, and third place was taken by the Vienna office Ortner & Ortner with the project 'Box'. The competition conditions required that the house be located on the outskirts of a European metropolis and that construction costs not exceed 250,000 Euros.
Four years later, as part of the Bundesgartenschau 2005, a house was built according to the design of Allmann Sattler Wappner near the exhibition center Riem on the eastern edge of Munich. The house, which is a joint project of the city of Munich, Bavarian state care, and the magazine Süddeutsche Zeitung, is intended to be publicly accessible and serve as a discussion forum and exhibition space.
The architects built a two-story house on a plot of 500m² with three separate ground-floor units, each with its own entrance and private outdoor space. The upper floor comprises a shared living area. According to the authors, the house is meant to “question traditional concepts of living, stimulate reflection, and provoke protests.”