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...
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...
Cable Car Station, Nebelhornbahn, Oberstdorf - Kleinwalsertal
...as a central point of contact for visitors. Reducing the architecture to its pure function underlines its significance as a direct interface between the local area and the alpine landscape. A regular row of timber parabolas, encased in curved laminated...
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
...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...
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...
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.«...
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...
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
...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...
Community Centre, Ludesch
...publication compares conventional building materials and construction methods with green alternatives. Tenders were invited for both conventional and green building methods. In the end, a green building was created, at an additional cost of only 1.9 % The three blocks...
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...
Mayer, Weiler
...the afternoon sun, the basement made of exposed concrete can be read as the encasing of the embankment wall. The walls of the bedrooms and bathrooms above, which are in contact with the ground, are also solid, and the terraced...
TUM Friedrich N. Schwarz Research Station, Berchtesgaden
An alpine science station at altitude The Technical University of Munich chose a piece of forest at 1,262 meters above sea level over the national park town of Berchtesgaden as the building site for their research station. In order to...
Catholic Centre of Excellence, Salzburg-Herrnau
...these diverse building structures emerged from the 1950s on the former grounds of Schloss Herrnau. As the spiritual centre of the newly founded district, the sacred settlement of St. Erentrudis was inaugurated in 1963. The listed parish centre is surrounded...
Olpererhütte, Zillertaler Alpen
...existing building and the foundations are concreted. The walls the make contact with the ground are also made of reinforced concrete, all other load-bearing components are prefabricated panels made of cross-laminated timber. In order to construct the projecting element, the...
Wildpark, Pforzheim
...“game park building”, which receives all the immediate functions for the game park. It is the first point of contact for visitors, with toilets, information, and the sale of snacks, coffee, pet food, and gift items. The building is open...
TUM Center of Excellence, Garching
...adjacent buildings and streets. On the ground floor, the floor plan includes public spaces, an event hall, a library, and a contact point for doctoral candidates. On the top three floors are the workplaces and meeting rooms of the “CCC”,...
Residential building Hälin, Langen bei Bregenz
...design of the parts of the building in contact with the ground are chosen with a view to minimising the measures required for slope stabilisation and excavation. The structure built above is made of flat solid timber elements in DiagonalDübelholz®...
Nebelhornbahn Talstation - cable car station, Oberstdorf
...as a central contact point for the visitors. A reduction of the architecture to the pure function emphasises its importance as a direct interface between the local area and the alpine landscape. Depending on the direction of travel, the parabolic...
Messehallen 9-12, Dornbirn
...and a window in the large seminar room. ~ Facade The masterplan formulates the goal of a differentiated architectural design for the individual halls. The halls 1, 9 and 13, which are of substance to the building, combine a clear...
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
...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
...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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Heritage in transition: putting new life into old walls For more than 1,000 years, there has been activity on this site. In 960, St Gerold founded a Benedictine priory on the historic Faschina Pass route, which was expanded over the...
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,...
Schmuttertal Secondary School, Diedorf
...riser shafts for the building services. Thanks to large glazing, the classrooms are linked to the multiple open learning landscapes. In the two-storey block you will find the library, music rooms, cafeteria, recreation hall and administration department. The auditorium is...
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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