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
...foliage umbrella. The climbers can be ordered from the appropriate retailer in a height of up to 4.5 m. With a timely reservation in the spring, the plants could already have reached a height of 5.5 m and a width...
Doppelmayr, Wolfurt
...entrance area and forecourt of the building are oriented towards the street and the opposite workshop. As described above, the south facade marks the transition from the nature reservation area to the commercial area. This interface also becomes a meeting...
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...
Recycling Centre Vorderland, Sulz
...noise and emissions, but opens up via the saw-tooth loading bay to the access road. It was desirable to reduce the number of materials and components used to just a chosen few, the large-scale roof construction transfers its static loads...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.«...
Brock Commons Tallwood House, Vancouver
...authorities increased the maximum number of storeys from four to six in order to increase the height of wooden buildings. For the 53 m high dorm this change was not enough. However, the campus has its own building regulations and...
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...
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...
Raiffeisenbank, Egg
New headquarters of Raiffeisenbank Mittelbregenzerwald. In the middle of the village of Egg in the Bregenzerwald, Austria the new headquarters of the Raiffeisenbank will be built. One of the goals of the new building is to build a simple, but...
Interpark Focus - Jura, Röthis
Open flexible design in the work place. The new administrative centre of the original Jura building, which was completed three years ago, now forms the entrance to the 120,000 m² business park Interpark Focus. Pivoting around a central open square,...
Sutterlüty J, Egg
Open, light and airy. A large, almost villa-like space program is organised in a cross-shaped in response to the west and north slopes, fringed by a brook and groups of trees. The south-facing entrance opens up to a view of...
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...
Textile School, Dornbirn
...new lease of life. The preservation was possible due to faithful renovations of the valuable building fabric. Wherever new interventions were made, these were implemented in line with the existing material and design language. The University of Applied Sciences enables...
Neudorfstraße, Wolfurt
First multi-storey timber construction for social housing in Vorarlberg, built as part of a subsidised housing scheme. Neudorfstrasse has been developed by a housing society in Vorarlberg, three years after the completion of the privately-financed “Ölzbündt” estate. The development is...