Atlas Multi-Storey Timber Construction
Wood is regarded as a visual attractive, tactile material; it is sustainable, renewable and usually readily available. The fact that wood is now almost unrestricted for use in multi-storey buildings is, however, new and requires a more creative approach to...
Corporate Timber. Schraubenwerk mit Holz
Pushing the Limits of Hardwood The new production hall of the SWG screw factory in Gaisbach is a pioneering building for timber construction. The architecture sets new standards for the use of hardwood and re-explores the limits of the future-oriented,...
Building with Wood - Creating the Future
The ecological significance, the technological potential and the new aesthetics of the familiar building material wood, are the focus of this publication. The first chapter, supported by explanatory graphs, explains the contribution of the materials supplier to active climate protection....
DBU Building 1: Schmuttertal High School
...The new High School embodies this spirit. Innovative educational approaches and a participatory planning culture formed unusual spatial structures, ambitious ecological goals guided the construction, and practical and inspirational ideas formed the architecture. Builders and sponsors, users and planners, specialists...
Hermann Kaufmann IZM - Illwerke Center Montafon
Creating the largest wooden hybrid building to date. The Austrian state of Vorarlberg is vital to timber construction. An active and innovative scene has emerged around this renewable building material, including craftsman, planners and industrial operators that are expanding their...
Public buildings: Orientation. Protection. Identity.
...focus is not just on its usefulness. In this book, forty-five projects illustrate how architecture finds new ways to combine content-functional relevance with high design quality in public buildings. German Architecture Publishing House – Shop [book only in German available]...