1st construction phase residential house, pool and technical house, Tegerfelden , March 2016 - July 2018
The modern, pavilion-like home of the Binder family is located in the townscape protection zone of the municipality of Tegerfelden. The house is formed by a roof that rests on a few supports. In accordance with the historic buildings in the townscape, the roof cantilevers clearly over the façade on the eaves side, while the overhang on the village side is only slight. In accordance with the buildings in the village, in which the walls of the attic were clad on the outside in the same colour as the roof, the materialisation of the residential building is the same all around. The roof, the fifth façade of the house, is clad in copper on the outside and appears natural on the inside. The building digs slightly into the terrain on the slope side and is glazed all around. In the interior, the terrain offset is accompanied by a sideboard along the entire length of the building.
An interior core building zones the residential building and at the same time houses the ancillary rooms. The interior can be visually separated by sliding doors. Despite the all-round glazing, with an unrestricted view of the park-like garden, the house holds a high degree of security. The soffit of the eaves is a connecting element between inside and outside.
Aesthetic and constructive features
The residential building is formed by a purely timber construction. The modern roof creates space and is supported by four pairs of columns infilled with St. Andrew's crosses and a supplementary column in each longitudinal direction. The roof covers a floor plan area of 10 x 16.40 m. A special feature is the design of the ridge detail. The omission of the standing ridge underlines modern timber construction and at the same time becomes a challenge in the field of statics.
Reduced to a few materials, timber construction comes to the fore. The joining of the components is deliberately shown, the arrangement and orientation of the joints was central to the design. While cladding elements and fixtures are connected with horizontal joints, load-bearing elements have vertical joints. The grain direction of the wooden elements reflects the direction of the force curve.
The result is a timber construction of high aesthetics, which is characterized by invisible fasteners and the grain directions of the wooden surfaces, which reflect the force curve; Architecture and timber construction engineering services are combined in the project.
The construction, which is easy to read from the inside as well as from the outside, albeit reduced, is accessible to both the resident and the viewer. The result is a modern interpretation and further development of the existing buildings in the village and shows the possibilities of today's timber construction in private living in a concise and character-forming way.
Source: Oliver Christen
Pictures: Valentin Jeck
