Changing Room - Pavilion, Lahti
Beautiful and functional simplicity, realised in timber. The changing rooms at Ankkuri beach are a part of the park of timber architecture created around Sibelius Hall in Lathi, Finland. All winners of the Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award have...
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...
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...
Gutsbetrieb Rheinhof, Hohenems
...only a small number of steel elements. Threaded metal rods carry the tension loads; their slenderness contributes to the building’s light and airy appearance. | The central nave consists of pitched trusses, while the aisles are supported by simple beams....
Messehallen 9-12, Dornbirn
...quiet impression of space as possible, priority was given to a simple and clear supporting structure. The roof structures are economical timber constructions, which optically fade into the background through black glazing. Truss girders, as the main supporting structure, stretch...
City of Wood, Bad Aibling
...green surroundings. The top floor offers a higher residential value due to its expansive sun terrace. The floor plans are optimised for function and cost. The exterior wall system is modular and consists of three levels; a statically relevant support...
Gaudier Bzreska Vocational School, Orleans
...support / wind band pillars made of timber laminate. The Workshop Mixed structure of metal columns / beams of laminated timber/ concrete slabs. Reception Room Mixed structure of peripheral support posts made of laminated timber/ metal posts and central beams....
Kaufmann Holz AG – Factory Hall Au, Reuthe
...divided into two sections with different widths. The pylons consist of 2 HEA profiles each, with diagonals connected to a grid support. All other supports are made of timber, with Parallam, glued laminated timber or a cross-section composed of these...
Provost Residence St Gerold - Riding Hall, St. Gerold
...especially during the winter. The slender struts act as the window wall supports. Single-panel windows were used since they allow for greater transparency and less reflection. The use of glazing means that the riding school is protected from wind and...
Wilbinger, Bezau
...Kaufmann are interested in two main themes: sustainable construction and timber buildings. They call their approach to architecture ‘working in the spirit of the region’, or looking for answers while honouring the past. It is all about the skills and...
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...
Recycling Centre Hofsteig, Lauterach
...plant and an organic waste centre. This integration was accomplished by the continuation of the existing timber facade of the power plant, which further enhances the overall impression. The entire area is accessible to customers via a driveway, which then...
Haggen - residential area, St. Gallen
...ceilings, the span is limited to about 3.7 meters. These ceiling elements rest on load-bearing partition walls or supports. The outer walls, apart from the end walls, are carried out non-supporting and are prefabricated with built-in windows and highly thermally...
Community Centre, Ludesch
...and conventional construction methods. The documentation and delivery of the project in Ludesch not only supported this program, it also was proof that new standards in energy efficiency and green building design could be archived with great success. Over the...
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...
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
...via four parallel axis. In the middle of the hall there are three massive concrete supports, which hold the two truss girders which are made of construction standard beech with steel supports at each end. Slender glulam beams made of...
Hotel Schmiedberger, St. Johann
...floor, accessible to hotel guests and the public, integrated in the southern part of the building. The entire complex has 102 beds. The upper floors 1-4 in the northern and the upper floors 2-3 in the southern wing of the...
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
...around € 10 billion each year. Not surprisingly, the building material in the region has a long tradition, but what is astonishing is the low level of innovation in modern timber construction in Canada. Conventional constructions methods dominate. Small scale...
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...
Zünd assembly and logistics hall, Altstätten
...illuminate the front workstations, high-lying ventilation flaps serve to supply fresh air and illuminate the rear areas of the room. This also ensures efficient night-time cooling. The primary support structure of the building will be constructed using a timber-concrete hybrid....
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...
Agricultural school, Salzkammergut
...the facades and along the corridors, coverings are arranged. These form linear supports for the ceilings and collect the loads through the timber supports. The horizontal building restraint takes place through the formation of roof and ceiling panels. The vertical...
House of Sustainability, Ruggel
...the roof windows. Supporting structure The supporting structure is very simple like the building. Load-bearing walls and ceilings are made of solid timber elements. The elements are made of rough-sawn square timbers without glue (e.g dowel wood). The load transfer...
Caritas Head Office, Salzburg-Herrnau
...measures. Kindergarten and apartments, use symbiosis The kindergarten and residential building is open and playful in its design. The building, which was designed as a hybrid construction, includes a support structure made of reinforced concrete with suspended timber elements as...
Gastronomy pavilion Uferpark West, Überlingen
...of the terraces, while the winter vegetation allows more direct sunlight into the space. Through this “natural filter” the building enters into dialogue with the surrounding park. In its materiality, the pavilion supports the ecological values aimed at by the...
Rectory, Krumbach
...continue to have a positive effect in 30 or 40 years.” When Hirschbühl was elected twenty years ago, the village of over 1,000 residences looked to becoming a sleepy hamlet. The centre was empty, the land of single-family homes undiscovered....
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....
Interpark Focus - Jura, Röthis
...on the facades, together with steel columns inside the building, support the reinforced concrete ceilings, allowing for an open layout of the floor plan and therefore flexibility. In addition to cooling, the building was equipped with a controlled ventilation system....
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...
Olpererhütte, Ginzling
...from the surrounding area, has been back filled with rubble from the demolition, the house itself consists of glue-laminated spruce timber. The outer walls of the ground floor act as support plates and are, in order to reduce the load...
Biomass Heating Plant, St. Christoph
...building are the warehouse and the boiler house. The supply of wood chips and disposal of the ash takes place via the south-facing gates. Construction The heating plant building is planned in solid construction. The support structure, exterior walls and...
Nürnbergkareal phase 1, Absam
...with controlled ventilation for heat recovery. The heat load peaks are covered by a central system that is powered by pellets and gas. There are solar collectors on the roof surfaces for hot water preparation and support for thermal energy...
Lexengasse, Liefering
...support of the heating system the thermal solar system, with a 52,000 litre storage tank is used. Also there is a central ventilation system with a rotary heat exchanger that is highly efficient in the recovery of energy and humidity....
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...
Bridge, Wetzlar
Creating accessible and beautifully functional bridges to support regional prosperity. For the occasion of the Hessentag 2012 (a large festival and fair), the city of Wetzlar gave the order to replace the old wooden bridge system. During the Hessentag...
Mathis, Dafins
Life on a timber plateau, under a timber roof – floating without visible support: a glazed “Cella” with a “Peristyle” of covered terraces. »It is the most important step in bringing old and new into a dialogue. It is almost...
Dorner Electronic, Egg
...90 employees. Thanks to the company’s consistent support and provision of software and hardware solutions, today it is global market leader in its sector. The original plant was designed by Leopold Kaufmann in 1977 and he was also responsible for...
Untere Aue, Lustenau
...total energy consumption of the system is therefore below 15 kWh / m2a. For heating support and hot water preparation, a solar system with a 56 m2 collector surface will be built. The residual heat requirement is covered by a...
Ingeborg-Ortner-Children´s Home, Garching
...spaces apart at 250 mm intervals. They form the support for the roof structure, contribute significantly to the architectural design and create exceptional acoustics. The ceilings of the spacious entrance foyer, the corridors and the functional areas are built, like...
Security Center, Bezau
...in the centre of the town and to simultaneously support the needs of the local community with additional underground parking facilities in the town centre. »It was not just about meeting the needs of the town residence and the security...
Wagner GmbH, Nüziders
...~ The two building materials work together optimally: wooden beams are loaded on the underside of the ceiling with tension, while the concrete on the upper side absorbs the pressure. Thanks to the addition of 1% polypropylene in the concrete...
Bus Stop, Krumbach
...Two 8.2-meter-long wall panels support the roof construction. Due to their L-shaped design, and that they offset to each other, the unique waiting areas create an elongated space. Deep benches made of solid oak invite you to linger. ~ Timber...
Hirschau-Unterdorf, Schnepfau
...occupancy, individual units with 1 to 4 rooms were designed. All apartments have private terrace areas or generously dimensioned loggias that open to the southeast to the impressive Kanisfluh mountain range. | The building was constructed using a mixed construction...
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...
Sutterlüty, Frastanz
Simple and dense At the border between the commercial areas and residential quarters of the market town of Frastanz, the restrained volume marks the intersection of two heavily frequented main traffic arteries. The customers of the regional local supplier enter...
Propstei St. Gerold - main building renovation, St. Gerold
...the new roof is now supporting them. The central themes of the complex building project are the extensive dismantling of the interventions, the careful preservation and recycling of materials and the implementation of ecological criteria, in keeping with the spirit...
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...