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German architecture firm · Frankfurt am Main
Private residences,
designed
and built.
Villas, waterfront homes and hotels - from the first sketch through permitting to move-in. One firm, one person accountable, start to finish.
The founder
Andreas Schnee
Architect, licensed in Germany · practicing since 1992
Andreas Schnee has run his own practice since 1992 and takes personal responsibility for every commission, from the first sketch to the day the keys change hands. His work covers private residences, villas and hotels - for clients who never have to explain their standards, because they recognize them in the work.
Out of that grew a way of working that never separates design from building: the person who sets the proportions also chooses the material, the joint and the light - and stays with the house until it is finished. Schnee Architektur is part of the SSC group near Frankfurt, with sister companies for development and turnkey construction. For the client this means one firm carries design, permitting and construction - and one person answers for the result, quietly.
“Architecture leaves its mark.”
Design and construction, one firm
01 - Signature
Classical · modern
Two signatures, one attitude.
Design study
Classical Modernism
Order, in today's proportions
Base, cornice, tall window bays, a set-back top floor; plaster, natural stone and wrought-iron railings. Houses that look as though they had always stood there.
Design study
Modernism
Volume, light, material
Clear edges, deep loggias, horizontal window bands, warm plaster and timber tones. Restraint as an attitude: the effect comes from proportion, light and material.
02 - Villas
Single house
The house in the garden
The siting decides a single house: where it stands on the land, which way the living rooms open, which side stays closed to the neighbours. We work with few large openings and with walls that guide the eye.
Pool, terrace and hedge belong to the design, not to the equipment; they form the outdoor rooms that are actually lived in through the summer. The garden begins at the threshold.
03 - Sequence
House on the water · renderings
Approach, room, axis
04 - Attitude
Frankfurt · since 1992
A house does not begin with the floor plan,
but with the land.
01
Light
The afternoon sun decides where the living rooms belong. We walk every site at several times of day before the first line is drawn.
02
Detail
Quality shows in the joint, in the transition, in the weight of a door - in things that need no explanation. That is where we spend most of our time.
03
Material
Limestone, oak, brass, honed plaster - chosen for the way they age. In twenty years they should look better than on the day of handover.
Founded
1992
In practice
30 years
Services
Phases 1-9
Studio
Eschborn
05 - Work · renderings
Selected projects
Garden side with allée
Miami Beach · garden side
Living room at the pool
Miami Beach · interiors
Bathroom in limestone
Miami Beach · bathroom
06 - Interiors
A house is only finished with its rooms.
Floor plan, light, surface and furnishing come out of the same drawing. The planning stays in one hand; nothing in our houses has to be clad after the fact.
07 - Services
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First conversation
Let us talk about your site.
A first conversation on site, without obligation. You show us the place and your idea; we tell you plainly what can come of it.
Projects
A residence, a hotel.
A residence in Miami Beach, a hotel in Hamburg: different scales, the same care. Every design begins with the site and its axis. Further villas and hotel projects are shown on request.
Villas & hotels on request
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Architectural impressions
Design studies, not built projects
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References for villas and hotels are shown on request - in confidence.
Interior architecture
Rooms that grow more beautiful with the years.
We plan interiors not as decoration but as a continuation of the construction: wall build-up, service routing, light point and joint come out of one drawing. What appears as a floating surface was usually decided long before the fit-out.
We work with workshops and trades we have known for years - stonemason, joiner, metalworker. Samples are reviewed on site, in the daylight of the room the material is meant for.
All images are renderings
Bathroom
Limestone and brass
The floor is laid in large formats so that as few joints as possible divide the room; the tub stands free in front of the garden doors, so the evening light runs over its rim. The shower sits behind a frameless pane, fittings and lights are brass. Vanity and mirror are built in rather than placed - the service routing is drawn in from the start.
Kitchen
Marble island and brass
The island is worked from a single block and carries preparation as well as breakfast; the painted fronts wear brass hardware and a lantern pendant holds the centre. The French doors lead onto the terrace, so the garden sits in the room while one cooks. Stores and china stand behind glass, the technology stays in the back wall. Cooking, preparation and dining lie on one axis.
Living
Limestone, linen, brass
The living room opens through French doors that reach up under the transoms; curtains from wall to wall take the hardness out of the evening and soften the sound of the room. The fireplace stands in limestone, the upholstery is linen and bouclé, and a brass chandelier holds the centre. We develop the furnishing together with the floor plan so that seat heights, sight lines and paths agree - and the axis to the pool stays clear.
“Care shows in small things: in the joint that does not announce itself; in the handle that finds the hand; in the door that comes to rest by itself.”
Color families
Tones that hold together
Three combinations
We work with few tonal families and carry them through the whole house. Each combination holds two light values, one middle tone as the carrier of the surface and two dark ones that set the edges.
Color family I
Limestone and oak
The quiet ground tone of the living rooms: pale lime plaster on the walls, limestone on the floor, oak in the built-in work, brass on handles and hardware. A single dark tone holds the row together.
Lime plaster · limestone · oak · brass · basalt
Color family II
Marble and bronze
For bathroom and kitchen: Carrara with quiet veining, a grey tone as counterweight, dark bronze on fittings and hardware. Cooler in tone, equal in brightness.
Carrara · veining · basalt grey · bronze · steel
Color family III
Plaster and sage
Outside and in garden rooms: broken white plaster, linen on curtain and upholstery, together with the grey-green of box and olive. Anthracite is reserved for windows and railings.
White plaster · linen · sage · box · anthracite
Materials we work with
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The studio
A house of permanence is no accident. It is the work of three decades of measure, judgement and craft.
Philosophy
A house is a decision about how you live.
Before the first line comes the question of how a day in this house should run: which light shapes the morning, where the coat is set down, which room gathers the evening. The form grows out of these questions - never the other way round. Three measures guide us.
Place
A house belongs first to its place. We walk the site at different times of day until it is clear where the light lingers and where the eye comes to rest. The design answers that.
Measure
Measure is more than size. A room carries when height, light and path agree; that is why we draw sections long before furniture is placed. Where the proportion is right, one material that invites the hand is enough.
Time
We build for the third decade. Limestone, oak and brass gain under touch; floor plans must carry a second phase of life. What lasts, first of all, is the house nobody wants to tear down.
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Process
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Contact
Talk to us about your project.
Whether land, an existing building or a hotel project: tell us the place, the scope and the time frame. We answer personally and treat every inquiry in confidence.
Studio
SSC Architektur GmbH
Mergenthalerallee 79-81
65760 Eschborn, Germany
SSC group
ssc-projekte.de - project development
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