Brock Commons Tallwood House, Vancouver
...an apt demonstration of how Canada’s forest industry is finding new opportunities through technology and innovation.« Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources The timber industry dominates in British Columbia. The wooded province in western Canada exports wood products worth...
Gutsbetrieb Rheinhof, Hohenems
...is airy and marked by a large number of unique elements. This is related to the decision to use timber from nearby forests: the length of the wood was limited to that which could be found locally. Gluelam technology was...
Gastronomy pavilion Uferpark West, Überlingen
Location The restaurant pavilion is designed to create a striking addition to the newly created water park. It serves as a contact point, with service functions for park visitors and users of the adjacent playground. It is also an important...
Raiffeisenbank, Egg
...were assigned to the respective business processes. The ground floor serves the private customer care in a generously sized customer reception. The first floor accommodates the corporate customer service and the executive board, while the administration can be found on...
Community Centre, Ludesch
...were insulated with cellulose, and sheep wool was used as the insulation material for the fit-out and finishes. Sheep wool replaces the commonly used polyurethane window insulation, costing only 800 euros more. Solid walls stiffen the structure, while slender steel...
Ölzbündt, Dornbirn
...possible to heat incoming air even if it is a minimal amount of air that is circulated. Compact, individually adjustable devices control the ventilation and heating in every apartment. Fresh air is heated to minimum of 0° centigrade by the...
Messehallen 9-12, Dornbirn
...recovery as well as a heating and cooling coil for supply air conditioning. The energy is supplied via a nearby heat or cooling network. The advantage of the decentralised system is the complete elimination of the supply and exhaust air...
Haggen - residential area, St. Gallen
...in the east of the area and allows by the height development of the terrain a ground-level parking for the customer as well as the visitor parking. On the one hand, this has the advantage that the cars can be...
Sutterlüty, Hohenems
...the largest number of gimmicks imaginable. Sutterlüty’s new commercial centre in Hohnems was designed to be the antithesis of those ubiquitous, glaring, banal shaped boxes. »This shopping centre demonstrates that retail complexes do not have to be bland or impersonal.«...
House of Sustainability, Ruggel
...floors The generous facade openings and the threshold-free entrances create a smooth transition between space and building. In addition to the central main entrance it is possible to open the seminar room, cafe, exhibition and utility room directly onto the...
Isar-Würm-Lech, Landsberg am Lech
...For the hot water preparation, the waste heat of the compressed air generation is used. As a result, inefficient short-term operation of the biomass boiler can be prevented, especially in the summer. The transfer of heat in the production and...
Agricultural school, Salzkammergut
...centre for these two areas is aimed for. Own central equipment for kitchen ventilation, gym and food processing. Isothermal air intake at 22 ° C in summer and winter. To ensure the constant supply air temperature in the ventilation units...
Kaufmann Holz AG – Beam Assembly Hall, Reuthe
New timber construction technology enables a vast open assembly hall. The column-free room of the assembly hall measures 30 by 60 meters, running its length are two cranes with a weight baring loads of 6.3 tonnes each. Their rails...
SWG screw factory Gaisbach GmbH, Waldenburg
...services. In order to ensure a high degree of flexibility in the production processes, the number of supports in the hall is reduced to a minimum. The supporting structure consists of eight parallel, lengthways, 82 m long and 3.8 m...
Recycling Centre Hofsteig, Lauterach
The form and colour language of the architecture acts as a simple framework for the presentation of the recyclable materials. The hall is designed as a pillar-free timber construction and forms an overall ensemble with the existing local biomass power...
Student Housing, Rosenheim
...built as prefabricated timber modules in the factory and then assembled on site. This design also makes it possible to minimise the number of working days on site and the associated weather dependency. The existing local system feeds low-temperature floor...
Hauser, Hohentannen
Abundant space in a simple shell. A house for a movement therapist and a music teacher should be designed according to the individual needs of its residents. But in the newly developed area, a large number of planning parameters had...
Extension of the Bundeswehr kindergarten, Ulm
...was built in 2015 as a single-storey timber building and is now to be expanded to accommodate two additional groups of 30 children each. Important criteria for the development of the new volume were to strengthen the free urban form...
Foot and Cycle Bridge, Zwischenwasser
...a guardrail”, the bridge over the river Frutz in Zwischenwasser crosses the stream in an unspectacular way and is sparse in its form. It fulfils the requirements as an economic and quick realisation that is long-lasting and maintenance-free. The qualities...
Metzler-Holz KG - Storage Warehouse, Bezau
What is more obvious a solution than building a warehouse for timber, from timber? The sawmill and timber trading company needed a 30 x 60 meter, pillar-free hall for the storage of dried timber, as well as for the air...
Zünd assembly and logistics hall, Altstätten
Industrial hall with daylight and fresh air. The existing location of Zünd Systemtechnik AG has reached its capacity limits, the construction of a new assembly and logistics hall is inevitable. In order to sound out suitable design and construction strategies,...
Hotel Bellevue, Les Houches
...glazing. At the heart of this is a ventilation system that supplies the building with the necessary fresh air and returns the energy from the waste air, which is normally lost, to the building via heat exchangers. Together with a...
Isar-Würm-Lech GmbH, Landsberg am Lech
...an optimised building envelope and high levels of daylight utilisation. To generate heat, the wood remnants are salvaged and used. For the hot water preparation, the waste heat of the compressed air generation is used. The heat transfer in the...
Gastronomy pavilion Uferpark West, Überlingen
...warm afternoon light, while the kitchen and service facilities are organised as a compact core on the closed rear side facing the railway and road routes. To keep the footprint of the volume as small as possible, the sanitary, staff...
Reifen Forster, Lauterach
Light, transparent strength and functionality. As part of the relocation to a former food wholesale centre, the tyre service hall was built on the car park to the fount of the building. Here tyre service work can be carried out...
Am Garnmarkt, Götzis
...the high-bay warehouses and administrative buildings. As a result, additional trading and service companies chose this location. After intensive planning and development work, as well as several architectural competitions, the second section was started at the beginning of 2010. In...
Cable Car Station, Nebelhornbahn, Oberstdorf - Kleinwalsertal
...safety glass, creates a shimmering transparent volume that radiates lightness and openness. Depending on the direction of travel, the structure is perceived as a gateway to the mountains or to the valley. The elongated service centre is essentially a purely...
Schmuttertal Secondary School, Diedorf
...sawtooth roof windows. A micro sunscreen grid located on the horizontal windows draws in sunlight and transmits out diffused white daylight. The marketplaces benefit from glare-free daylight. The layered arrangement of the floor plan creates alternating classrooms on both the...
Nebelhorn Cable Car - Summit Restaurant, Oberstdorf
...free the summit, to make it the centre of attention and to bring it to life when looking up at it from below or when you have ascended to the peak by train.« Univ.-Prof. Arch. DI Hermann Kaufmann To highlight the peak,...
Waste material collection centre Vorderland, Sulz
Location Surrounded by the motorway, the main road and the industrial road, the project is defined by traffic, that creates the situation of the site. The building positions itself is confidently and clearly, visible to customers along the main road...
Vorarlberg electricity Network - Operations Office, Lindenberg
...a bordered unit along the newly planned access area. A two-storey high volume forms the main building, which in addition to office space for administration also houses a publicly accessible customer centre. The clearly structured building has total accessibility and...
Sutterlüty, Rohrbach - Dornbirn
Bringing the marketplace to the customers. Sutterlüty puts the ‘market place’ at the centre of their considerations when planning the new branch in Dornbirn, Rohrbach. They want to create and experience for their customers that is reminiscent of doing...
3-fach Sporthalle, Kempten
A pillar construction as a place maker. The town of Kempten is considered the educational and administrative centre of the surrounding Allgäu region. A new triple sports hall, for up to 800 spectators, is to be built on the site...
Recycling Centre Vorderland, Sulz
...the south through an expansive gate. Here customers pass through the central square to hand in their recycling materials on the circular route of the collection containers before they leave the hall. Administration and sanitary rooms are lined up on...
Hotel Schmiedberger, St. Johann
...highly thermally insulated outer shell. The element construction method makes it possible to ideally use a large number of Egger products. In addition, the interior offers different applications for the products from Egger. The outward appearance of the hotel is...
Zerlauth, Frastanz
The antithesis of cubist architecture, open angular rooms under an abstract roof. Frastanz, in Austria, is home to a large number of international businesses. In contrast to the Bregenzerwald region, this area is firmly in the grip of a...
Haus mitanand - Ellenbogen, Bezau
...timber according to ecological and modern structural engineering requirements, as well as the requirements of the Passive House standard. The timber cladding is in the style of the existing building that will be demolished. The large number of parking spaces,...
Hotel Schwanen, Bizau
...modernised, changed in their formation and adapted to today’s needs. Although this reduced the number of beds slightly, it has increased the numbers of rooms sold. The design deliberately retreats and is dominated by mute surfaces of timber and plaster....
Unterstein, Langenegg
...The developer Morscher Bau- & Projektmanagement GmbH from Mellau built a number of units that use the constructive language for which Vorarlberg is known. Most of the facades are made of wood – as are these two buildings. Morscher calls...
Children’s care centre, Zwischenwasser
The basement and the surrounding free-standing columns are made of in-situ concrete, the rest of the construction is provided in timber. To ensure the greatest possible flexibility, the entire building is designed in the proposed grid of 2.60 m as...
Interpark Focus - Impulszentrum, Röthis
...realised in three-formed, pre-cast, reinforced concrete segments, which support the reinforced concrete ceilings with a few steel supports, and which guarantee a free disposition of the floor plan and a high flexibility in its utilisation. Due to the fact that...
Nürnbergkareal phase 2, Absam
...were designed with the support of an interdisciplinary team of research scientists and are now to be expanded to the east by two more volumes. As the concept of social mixing has been proven, 26 rental units, 19 free-hold condominiums...
Münchner Str. Hausner Grenzweg, Munich
...edge, a compact residential ensemble of seven units was to be built, and for this a separate development plan was drawn up. Three free-standing buildings, each surrounded by spacious private gardens, are set on the outer property boundary. Two triple...
IZM Illwerke Zentrum Montafon, Vandans
...dismantling is expected. The proposed skeleton construction allows for free interior division, which can also be adapted with little intervention to changing usage requirements. The facade and expansion grid underscores this flexibility while at the same time being optimised for...
Stallinger, St. Georgen im Attergau
The basement and the surrounding free-standing columns are made of in-situ concrete, the rest of the construction is provided in timber. To ensure the greatest possible flexibility, the entire building is designed in a grid of 2.60 m as a...
Kopf, Au
...the interior, whereby the roof slabs are arranged in such a manner that they synchronously continue the rhythm of the wall joints. The ceiling above the column-free main story is suspended from the roof support structure with tension rods. Large...
Kessler, Hirschegg
...with historical formalities of the design. It is however, by its very modern details, developed into a self-confident new statement. Structurally, it is a solid timber construction with visible walls and ceilings made of knot-free diagonal timber elements. This gives...
Unterfeldstraße, Ludesch
...timber walls and cross-laminated timber ceilings. The development is made from arcades that are made from non-combustible building materials such as steel and concrete. | For cost reasons, and to keep the building compact, the balconies are presented free of...
Jagdbergstraße, Schnifis
...Between the two structures a traffic-free space opens up, offering a high quality communal area. The entrances of the two houses are oriented directly on this common square. Also, the bike and refuse room is accessed directly by means of...
B&O wooden multi-storey car park, Bad Aibling
Parking in the park An innovative mixed-use district is growing in the north of the Upper Bavarian town of Bad Aibling. It is designed to be emission-free and built entirely from renewable raw materials. This multi-storey car park is made...
Vorarlberger Landesversicherung, Bregenz
At an extremely exposed location in Bregenz, a replacement headquarters for VLV is planned. Directly opposite the train station, the new building site come to the edge of the free plot, and is divided by the developments height. Through its...
B&O Villen, Bad Aibling
Sustainability through innovation. Along the Moosbachauen meadows in the north of Bad Aibling, the model project City of Wood is developing. On a disused military site, an emission-free urban district is being created from renewable raw materials, powered exclusively by...
Neubaugasse, Lauterach
...the neighbourhood development structure between the tranquil Neubaugasse and the main traffic axis of Harderstrasse. The buildings were carefully positioned in terms of sunlight, access and circulation to the site in order to create high-quality, traffic-free outdoor spaces.| The reinforced...
High-rise timber house - Queckareal, Tübingen
...is covered by the connection to the existing district heating network. The room ventilation takes place via manually operated, opaque window sashes as well as a controlled ventilation system with heat recovery, which ensures a supply of moderated fresh air....
woodpassage
...buildings store carbon over their entire lifespan, the amount of wood used in the forest grows again and actively extracts CO2 from the surrounding air. Wood as a building material thus has a doubly positive effect on the CO2 balance....
Children’s care centre, Kennelbach
...support and to offer a creative aesthetic. This gives the care centre a pleasant atmosphere and it achieves optimum indoor air quality. The facades also have a timber theme, but they vary. The large windows are partially flush with the...
Pflegeheim, Mauren
...room of silence, hairdresser and administration offices. The open-air areas on the property are located along the Jugendweg to the east and to the west with the protected Dementia Garden. At the lower component, a roof garden with covered seating...
Environmental Education Center Britzer Garten, Berlin
...The ecological footprint of the building was improved by the choice of renewable building materials making its footprint considerably lower than comparable structures in mineral construction. An air heat pump and extensive green roofs support this sustainable and resource-conscious concept....
Burger, Wolfurt
...enables heating via living space ventilation or small wall heaters in the individual rooms on the upper floor. The heating concept integrates a wood-burning stove in the living area, which heats both the supply air and the hypocaust. The basement...
Untere Aue, Lustenau
...condensing natural gas boiler. The heating of the apartment is provided by a low-temperature floor heating with a flow temperature of max. 35°C. The apartments are ventilated by a central ventilation system. The fresh air intake takes place via a...
Owens "House Drexel", Warth
...walls. The new panelling consists of unlined planks, whose irregular shape gives mechanical manufacturing an air of craftsmanship. Once the timber has been aged by the sun the house will no longer stand out. Inside, the renovations focus on creating...
Cloister Mehrerau School Bregenz
...the rendered neighbouring buildings that surround this specific situation. The energy concept of the building is state-of-the-art. The energy is powered by a recycled wood-chip plant. Controlled building ventilation is not only significant for the air quality in the school,...
Center for Children - Steinbockallee, Rum
...with play areas for the children and access paths to the residential blocks. The entire basement is underground parking, refuse and storage rooms. »The air quality and light quality improves the readiness to learn and also improves the concentration levels...
Legero, Graz
The shoe factory Legero, which was founded in 1872, is planning a new headquarters with an outlet shop with administration and sales area, in the area next to Graz airport. The urban arrangement of the design creates a division characterised...
Sutterlüty, Landammanngasse - Rankweil
...secondary girders are arranged at close intervals on the same level and span over 20 metres to the enclosing walls. A service zone wraps around the back of the volume as an angular structure made of exposed concrete. The arcade...
Hannoverhaus, Mallnitz
...the entrance floor the kitchen, above the sleeping areas for guests, in the basement, the storage rooms and the guest toilets, the living areas for the staff and the innkeeper. On the 2nd floor garages, winter room and service technologies....
Municipal Office, Schnepfau
...the village square. In 2000, the building was purchased by the municipality and revitalised, integrating further public amenities; a library and nursing service on the ground floor. The town council office resides on the timber-structured first floor, and the second...
Gymnastics and Celebration Hall, Muntlix
...because all the serving rooms are housed in the separate new wing. The exposed concrete wall of the service area is the view from the hall, the front of which is fully glazed. On the opposite side is a large...
Impulszentrum, Egg
A demonstration of the regional building culture in a unique location. At the location of the disused railway station in Egg, a service centre has been created to encourage people to engage with the regional, highly skilled, handcrafts. It...
Biomass heating plant expansion, Lech
Complex geometry maximises the potential of an undulating mountain plot for a vital service provider. The expansion of the Stubenbach district made the heating capacity of the two existing biomass boilers in the Lech too low. After initially considering...
Moosbrugger, Bizau
...service sectors. In the throes of a progressive, timber-based architecture movement, the area readily combines sustainable goals with a sleek minimalist look. And a new Bregenzerwald farmhouse, built for a dairy farmer in Bizau, would not be out of place...
Herbert von Pichler Straße phase 1, Jenbach
...a capacity of 107 parking spaces service the majority of the residents parking needs; the visitor parking is located along the Herbert von Pichler road. All apartments are arranged over three floors. The ground floor apartments have private gardens. The...
Naturhotel Chesa Valisa - Lounge/Reception, Hirschegg
...wide view of the valley and the sun. It’s carefully choreographed sequence of lounge and service areas enhance the existing spaces both spatially and functionally and create a new relationship between the inside and outside. The complex communication lines of...
Security Center, Bezau
...service teams; it was also about making sure we created another example of modern timber architecture in Vorarlberg, to continue to promote this wonderful, versatile and sustainable building material.« DI Claudia Greußing The Sicherheitszentrum is another project in a series...
Wagner GmbH, Nüziders
Architecture that reflects the values of the company: efficient, innovative and precise. The company Wagnertec, in Nüziders, manufactures chrome components for plant engineering, energy suppliers and building services. In order to enable the future development of the business, the administrative...
IZM – Illwerke Centre Montafon, Vandans
...throughout by projecting roofs, which also allow ideal access for cleaning, thus reducing operating expenditure. It would be possible to extend the building by adding further stories. All the service installations remain accessible, and the envelope is perfectly energy-efficient, so...
Landratsamt, Miesbach
...the north. The double entry in the floor plan marks the main entrance and facilitates the orientation. To the east is the smaller complex area, with the central service core and offices along the facades. There is room in the...
energie campus montafon, Vandans
...centre for apprentices. The compact building blends into the growing ensemble and is connected to the central administration building by a carefully landscaped park. On top of the concrete basement, with technical and service zones, four storeys were built in...
Im Haag, Lauterach
High-quality and unobservable retreat areas increase living quality. A large building plot was reconfigured, due to the demolition of a centrally placed house, allowing two duplex units to be built. The elongated main structure, with its exact southern orientation...
Provost Residence St Gerold - Riding Hall, St. Gerold
Timber and glazing are used to create a sense of protection in an open space. After decades of decay, the St. Gerold’s Priory was carefully restored. Today it is a thriving cultural centre. After the renovation of the existing facilities,...
YKK Passivetown, Kurobe
...the greatest energy consumption is expected (e.g., air conditioning). However, this should not pose a problem in the overall concept, as this period also offers the largest supply of solar energy. Large photovoltaic roofs integrated into the building roofs supply...
Bildungshaus St. Arbogast - renovation, Götzis
...have two large event halls and 14 other rooms available as meeting places. The building services were also modernised and made more independent of fossil fuels by replacing the existing woodchip heating system and installing an additional air heat pump...
Biomass heating plant - extension 2021, Lech
Complex geometry maximises the potential of an undulating mountain plot for a vital service provider The expansion of the Stubenbach district made the heating capacity of the two existing biomass boilers in the Lech too low. After initially considering building...
Pflegeheim Jesuheim, Lochau
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