Austrian workplace Firm Architekten used timber from the shopper’s personal forest and supplies sourced inside 50km to construct this cuboid home in an alpine village.
Positioned in Frastanz-Gampelün, near the border with Liechtenstein within the west of Austria, it sits atop a concrete base and provides panoramic views of mountains.
The shopper for the Haus im Obstgarten, which suggests “Home within the Orchard”, requested the studio headed by architects Albert Moosbrugger and Christian Feldkircher to design a brand new dwelling on a plot gifted by her mother and father.
A steady constructed for a standard farmhouse on the positioning was eliminated to make approach for the brand new constructing and a concrete automobile port.
The three-storey constructing’s kind and materials palette had been chosen to provide it a recent expression that stands out amongst the neighbouring homes and farm buildings.
“In distinction to the richly ornamented farmhouses, the brand new constructing is designed as a definite and lowered construction,” the structure studio mentioned. “The constructing’s sq. footprint underlines its simplicity.”
A sturdy concrete base helps a timber-clad dice that provides Haus im Obstgarten a stable and monolithic look. The horizontal cladding is created from untreated spruce that can regularly climate over time.
All of the supplies used to assemble the constructing had been sourced from inside 50 kilometres of the positioning, and the timber body was constructed solely utilizing wooden sourced from the shopper’s non-public forest.
“The shopper’s great-grandparents constructed the neighbouring farmhouse from their very own wooden after which reforested the forests,” Agency Architekten added.
“The nice-granddaughter was capable of construct her own residence from this wooden and, in the identical custom, the forests have been reforested with 750 younger timber for future generations.”
The picket construction rests on a bolstered concrete plinth linked to a patio and carport that hyperlink the brand new constructing with the outdated farmhouse.
The carport options an organically formed roof and curving wall meant to melt the aesthetic and organise the transition from the inside to the backyard.
Haus im Obstgarten’s floor flooring accommodates an open-plan kitchen, eating and residing area lined with panoramic home windows that look out onto the encircling countryside.
Openings on the higher flooring are fastidiously positioned to border particular views. These embrace a recessed balcony on the highest flooring the place the timber cladding varieties an open balustrade and display to let air and light-weight attain the inside.
The constructing’s partitions and ceilings are created from 24-centimetre-thick spruce wooden, which was handled with a cleaning soap end to guard the surfaces.
Fir was used for the window frames, furnishings and acoustic ceiling panels, with beech used for the flooring and stairs, and elm chosen for furnishings and the patio’s outside seating space.
The timber is complemented in locations by a white clay plaster and black metal used to assemble a bookcase that traces the stairwell.
Agency Architekten beforehand designed an extension to a gabled farmhouse within the close by city of Bezau, that includes a construction clad in timber louvres that double as shutters.
Pictures is by Adolf Bereuter.