Address
Wolfurt, A

Client
i+R Schertler GmbH
Lauterach, A

The design was decisively determined by two factors: by the shape of the site, which is located on an eastern slope and narrows down toward the bottom, and by a large tree, which is situated at the highest point of the site and had to be preserved. For this reason, the architects divided the housing development into two buildings of varying depth which are staggered uphill, in keeping with the line of the slope. The houses are of brick masonry clad with larchwood shingles. The simple units with their flat roofscape (doubling as a terrace) and the striking raised roof sections contain a total of ten apartments, five of which were designed as maisonnettes. Each apartment has either its own small garden or a spacious terrace. The apartments can be reached via the road located on the eastern part of the site. The upper building is characterized by a peculiar feature: tunnel-like cubes extrude from the building which are clad in titanium-zinc on the exterior, and with pinewood on the interior and contain the entrances to the apartments as well as staircases leading to the upper apartments. Although the housing development, as far as its scale is concerned, merges inconspicuously with its disparate surroundings of nondescript detached family homes, the almost hermetic simplicity of the two blocks creates a manifest distance between them and their surroundings. An important point for the inhabitants: the staggered arrangement of the buildings enables them to really enjoy one advantage of the hillside position – the view of the Rhine Valley.

Planning
be Lochau

Project Architect
D.I. Harald Nasahl

Site Area
1.837 m²

Area of Building
821 m²

Net Floor Area
902 m²

Building Volume
5.243 m³

Commencement Of Planning
1993

Commencement Of Work
1994

Completion
1995