HOUSE ST
The Wiggensbach district of Westenried lies at over 900 m above sea level and offers a fantastic panoramic view of the Allgäu Alpine foothills from an exposed location.
At the top end of the access road, House S forms the transition to the open countryside. The elongated, barn-like building volume on the slope is divided transversely by a single flight of external stairs into a garage with an office below. The southern window front bends parallel to the contour lines from the building line, creating space for a spacious, trapezoidal veranda on both usage levels. The panoramic view can continue to the west without restriction, especially as massive supports have been dispensed with in favor of a delicate balcony suspension. Barn-door-sized sliding shutters on the three main sunny sides allow individual control of sunlight and shading and even enable the building to be completely closed.
The house is built around a solid exposed concrete core, which houses the oven block, bathrooms and kitchen and over which the wooden room volume has been placed. The finely profiled vertical cladding in rough-sawn silver fir will match the color of the aluminum sheet of the roof over time, thus bringing the structure together even more into a homogeneous unit and merging it with the landscape in terms of both tone and style, as if it had always stood here.
TOPIC:
House In Landscape
LOCATION:
Westenried, DE
YEAR:
2008
CLIENT:
Privat
TYPOLOGY:
Residential | Architecture
STATUS:
Completed
TEAM:
Michael Becker, Franz Schröck, Bernhard Kast
PLANNING TEAM:
Herz und Lang GmbH, Weitnau
IB Hirdina, Kempten
IB Seeger + Himmel, Kempten
EMW Elektro, Kempten
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Becker Architects Planners
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