The project was developed in planning cooperation with Prof. Markus Binder from CAPE Ingenieure.

As the agricultural buildings existing on the building site at the end of their life and had to be broken off, it was the The building owner family is committed to providing urgently needed, contemporary living space in the Stuttgart Region but at the same time to strengthen the character of the town centre. Towards the building material wood was an obvious decision – not only because great importance is attached to sustainable construction method and was to be linked to local building traditions, but also because the client is a trained carpenter.

This attitude resulted in a three-storey apartment building, supplemented by a parking garage, which is needed for the agriculture that is still operated as a sideline, it is but also enables the client to continue to work on his original basis to a manageable extent profession.

Both parts of the building rest on a common solid plinth, which reduces the offset of the terrain to the garden. The two identical in the cut figure, but of different heights and lengths Buildings are offset from each other in such a way that they have a depot as a common apron and expansion of the road space. In its materiality of darkly painted wooden façade and coarsely peeled exposed concrete, they take up motifs from the surroundings and the previous building. All apartments are generously open to the south, which, together with the highly insulated building envelope and a heat pump heating system minimises heating energy requirements (KfW55). By adding an already prepared PV system on the optimally oriented south-facing roof, the house can use a large part of its energy requirements for heating and Cover hot water yourself.

Text: schleicher.ragaller architekten bda
Photos: Zooey Braun
Isometrics: Olha Senkiv in the seminar FACADE 4.0 at TUK

The preparatory work for this project publication was carried out as part of the building construction theory in the seminar FACADE 4.0 at TUK through a student thesis by Olha Senkiv.

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