Community Centre, Ludesch
...is integrated into the ventilation unit. All mechanical systems are fitted with meters, to allow computer based monitoring of energy use. Early in the planning, the town council decided to cover the newly created town square to allow for a...
SWG screw factory Gaisbach GmbH, Waldenburg
...of timber required can be reduced to a minimum, saving resources. The world’s largest roof structure made of BauBuche demonstrates the scale which contemporary timber engineering can now go to. It was never possible to build to these dimensions before....
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...
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...
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...
3-fach Sporthalle, Kempten
...placed in relation to the existing buildings in order to create a sequence of three topographically staggered courtyard spaces that lead into the park, which is to be opened to the general public. Together with the school building and the...
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...
Sutterlüty, Hohenems
Sustainability is not a ‘buzzword’, it is the driving force behind this project. Constructing big retail centres on the outskirts of towns is often an exercise in ticking boxes, with an aim to create something as cheaply as possible with...
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...
Unterstein, Langenegg
...long and narrow. The house is almost up to the 2nd floor in the ground due to the steepness of the plot. The pedestal foundations house the basements and garages for the vehicles. To get light in the back, the...
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....
Hotel Schmiedberger, St. Johann
...characteristic Alpine vistas. The guest reaches the centrally located reception via an attractively designed lobby that is in direct relation to the spacious outdoor terrace over the lounge, as well as to the breakfast room and the spa area. Starting...
Haus mitanand - Ellenbogen, Bezau
...The exterior design of the annex responds respectfully to the design quality of the previous building and integrates into a whole, while taking into account the agricultural form language in the overall appearance. The large-size sliding elements protect against the...
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...
Student Housing, Rosenheim
...is designed according to aspects of low basic energy consumption and compliance with the open space requirements. The structure appears compact and closed to the outside, but it forms a formal opening to the southeast to Marienberger Strasse. A sense...
Stallinger, St. Gerorgen im Attergau
...own stock. »The building represents a convincing application of the potential quality of the construction system adopted, and the concept makes it an extraordinary example of functional rationality and realised efficiency.« The International Prize for Sustainable Architecture 2011 The architecture...
Oberdorf 564, Sulzberg
...system, while in other models the energy is first led into a boiler in the basement and then comes into the living rooms; the energy goes directly into the living space and what is not needed goes into the boiler....
Raiffeisenbank, Egg
...say ‘grand’, ‘incredible’ and ‘ingenious’. This definitely applies to the bank in Egg.« Best of Austria 2010/2011 The plan is to build a 4-storey, fully timber-framed bank with a total floor space of more than 1,400 m². The individual storeys...
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,...
International Architecture Project BUS: STOP KRUMBACH launches.
...attracts over 30,000 tourists every year. New architecture in Vorarlberg continues to celebrate and utilise the craftsmanship that has shaped this region for centuries. International expertise will meet regional competence with the project BUS: STOP Krumbach, which has launched in...
"Haus Mitanand", Bezau is nominated for a Constructive Alps 2020 award
The international prize for sustainable renovation and building in the Alps “Constructive Alps” spans international borders. The awards are part of the larger Alpine Convention and aims to offer ‘food for thought’ about alpine life and living. Switzerland and Liechtenstein...
8th International Forum on Timber Construction in Dijon France
France’s construction sector is picking up again, with almost half a million homes approved in 2017 and around 420,000 building permits granted. The demand is enormous, and the trend towards timber construction goes from strength to strength. Timber construction in...
Hermann Kaufmann + Partners are celebrated on international television.
The office of Hermann Kaufmann + Partners are delighted to announce that they have been chosen by ARTE TV to be the focus of a short film into the architecture, sustainable buildings and timber construction culture of Vorarlberg. As part...
Hermann Kaufmann receives the Toni Russ Prize
...to draw in around 5000 visitors to Vorarlberg a year. Flourishing The prestigious speaker Achleitner, author of the only standard work on architecture in Austria, recalled the “roots of the revolution” of the internationally established Vorarlberg architects. In order to...
Hermann Kaufmann Wins the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2007
...committee of the Global Award. It was designed to gather together, and connect, public and private stakeholders who believe that sustainable housing offers immediate opportunities to contribute to the common good and to stimulate the international debate around sustainable architecture....
Timber Construction Day 2019: Lecture in Oslo
...the world’s best new building”. Totan Kuzembaev is Russia’s foremost timber architect and will present projects with collaborators in the engineering firm Idea Statika. Switzerland’s LOCALARCHITECTURE recently won “The 2019 International award for wood architecture” and will, together with the...
Insight into the exciting YKK project in Japan - exclusive interview with the project team
...board to deliver their latest development project. The HK team working on the project will pay their first to Japan this month. To introduce the project and to start telling the project’s story we have interviewed one of the projects...
LCT ONE - LifeCycle Tower Receives a Commendation Award at Constructive Alps 2013
At Constructive Alps 2013, winners from Switzerland and Liechtenstein were awarded international architecture prizes for sustainable renovation and building in the Alps. In addition to these awards, the jury also awarded seven Commendations of Excellence, including one to the the...
LCT ONE - LifeCycle Tower is Awarded a Nomination of the State Prize
...which also has a positive effect on the energy balance due to a lower traffic volume. “The LifeCycle Tower is pioneering work in sustainability for all partners involved in the project,” says Michael Zangerl, Project Manager LifeCycle Tower. “The nomination...
24.-25. April | Mission: Climate-friendly timber construction culture | Lecture Christoph Dünser
...construction offensive and in cooperation with vorarlberger holzbau_kunst, Proholz Bayern and Lignum Holzwirtschaft Schweiz. Vanue: Graf Zeppelin Haus, Friedrichshafen Lecture: Christoph Dünser, HK Architects Day 2 at 11:30 | Topic: Structural building with hardwood Tickets and further information at: proHolzBW...
The most beautiful books in Austria 2008: Hermann Kaufmann Woodworks
The most beautiful books in Austria 2008 have been announced. In the awards 56th year, a total of 15 books were selected, including Hermann Kaufmann’s ‘Woodworks’. The award is given to those publications whose design, concept and manufacturing quality is...
The Olpererhütte Ginzling receives the Best Architects Award 2009
The “Best Architects 09” award received the highest number of entrants since the awards were founded. 189 outstanding projects were submitted to the award. This year’s jury found it particularly difficult to select the best of the best. A total...
1st prize for a proposed development of the former Spicher school
...approximately 7,500 square meter area is located between Metzstraße to the north, Koboldstraße to the west of the Stadtberger Straße and the Spicherer Straße to the east. A total of 70 timber-framed apartments are planned, including fully accessible living and...
Awarded 1st place in the bid for Russareal Lochau
...individual buildings, both the semi-detached houses to the east, and the longitudinally oriented multi-storey buildings to the west, are incorporated into the structural system. The height of the individual residential buildings is three to four storeys, the commercial building on...
Experts discuss the very best Timber has to offer
...who wants to move towards more timber construction and is looking for initial contacts. Participation is free of charge. Since the number of participants is limited to 150, it is important to register here quickly, but no later than March...
New building in Neubaugasse
...three buildings, on a plot of about 4,300 m2. The former Mayor Elmar Kolb was also present at the ground-breaking ceremony as a representative of the parish of Lauterach. “We are very pleased to be able to do our part...
Exhibition Berlin Bauen mit Holz – Wege in die Zukunft (building with wood – ways into the future)
...a long time, steel, glass, brick and concrete were the epitome of modern architecture. But now timber has returned to be the construction material that enriches today’s architecture. The renaissance of modern timber construction began at the beginning of the...
IZM - Illwerke Zentrum Montafon nominated for State Prize for Architecture and Sustainability 2014
...total of 74 submissions. Twelve projects were then nominated for the National Prize, and then five finalists were awarded the prize. A top-class, international jury, chaired by Univ.-Prof. Roland Gnaiger from the University of Art, Linz, evaluated both the architectural...
Security Centre Bezau showcased at "Participate in Architecture of Necessity 2013” in Sweden
Architekten Hermann Kaufaufmann ZT GmbH added their Bezau Security Centre to a collection of international architectural projects that have formed an exhibition in Sweden. The exhibition is part of a competition called “Participate in Architecture of Necessity 20132, and was...
Provost Residence St Gerold nominated for the Constructive Alps 2017 Award
The deanery of St Gerold, in Austria, has been nominated for year’s ‘Constructive Alps Awards’. When assessing the awards, the international jury conducts a comprehensive review of all the sustainable renovation, and new build, projects submitted. It evaluates the aesthetic...
FOKUS.GESUND BAUEN goes to the Schmuttertal Secondary School
The exhibition GEPLANT + AUSGEFÜHRT, at the International Crafts Fair in Munich, is dedicated to 30 projects that stand for excellent cooperation of craftsmen and architects/interior designers. The best projects, and the teams who planned and implemented them, were honoured...
thomaswechspreis 2018: Recognition for Schmuttertal Gymnasium
...to builders and architects every three years. A total of 67 works from all over Bavarian Swabia were submitted to this year’s awards. In the first online round, the three international jury members Bernardo Bader (Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria) Armand Ruinelli...
Iconic Award 2018: Innovative Architecture goes to Schmuttertal High School Diedorf
...and they are awarded to internationally outstanding architectural projects, innovative interiors, product designs and convincing communication concepts. The award ceremony took place on October 8th in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. The project Schmuttertal Gymnasium Diedorf received the award...
Vorarlberger Holzbaupreis 2019: 1 prize and 3 recognitions
Once again the prestigious Vorarlberger Holzbaupreis awards took place, celebrating the special achievements made in timber design and building. For the thirteenth time outstanding timber were awarded across various categories. We are very happy to have received the following awards:...
Ceremonial inauguration of the Schmuttertal High School in Diedorf
After two years of construction, the Schmuttertal Gymnasium was inaugurated on October 21, 2015. It was planned and built with an integral and future-oriented approach, as a nationwide unique lighthouse project. It was necessary to combine economic, ecological and social...
Hermann Kaufmann Awarded Bezau Assisted Living Development
...the development will be extended to the west. One of the particular challenges of the design is to preserve the traditional characteristics of the building. The front and rear sides of the houses must remain distinguishable, the contrast between shingle...
klima: aktiv Gold for Multi-Apartment Construction in Sulzberg
...energy quality, the ecological quality has also been optimised and has received extremely positive evaluations. In addition to the atmosphere and cosy ambience, the economic efficiency of the chosen energy concept is particularly important for the residence. Thanks to low...
Energy and Climate Protection: Particularly climate-friendly constructions honored – such as the project Unterstein, Langenegg
..., and we congratulate all involved: “Alpenländische” and “Morscher Bau” with “Wohnbauselbsthilfe” projects stand out. Affordable rents are particularly important for non-profit housing developers, and low energy costs naturally contribute to this. Therefore, “Alpenländische Heimstätte” with 31 buildings and “Morscher...
Role Model Recycling Centre in Langerringen - Germany
The Augsburg district will halve the number of recycling centers by 2035, particularly affecting smaller municipalities. One of the winners of the new distribution concept is Langerringen, where a modern environmental competence center is set to be established next year....
We received the Austrian Green Planet Building® Award for the Brock Commons Tallwood House in Canada!
...in a high-rise building and the resource-efficient construction thanks to prefabricated parts. [AGPB, November 2022] We are delighted to receive this award and would like to thank Acton Ostry Architects for the great cooperation. Congratulations to the entire project team!...
Office Profile
...the dry shell, piece by piece. Timber elements that can be added to the construction site have been proven to be very effective in delivering this. Therefore, it is essential to intensify the planning to ease the building processes, compared...
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40th Anniversary
...on the state’s funding guidelines. The next step was then to take wood out of two and three storeys into multi-storey buildings, to the edge of the tower block and beyond. Here, too, we first worked on developing a construction...
BUS:STOP Krumbach
7 international architecture offices designed 7 bus stops for the Bregenzerwald community in Krumbach, and enter into a dialogue with people, landscapes and tradition. Accompanied by architects from the region and local craftsmen, small utility buildings, akin to extraordinary sculptures,...
WOODBOX
The international roadshow is en route to European cities. How does timber construction move into the city? How do you convince citizens and politicians of the cities to use more timber in construction? proHolz Austria has, together with Hermann Kaufmann,...
Building with wood – A path to the future I Munich
...architectural variety of modern wooden constructions, from the low-energy house to wide-span structures and high-rise construction. The exhibition is designed to be illustrative. The visitors discover projects that are embedded into a huge spruce tree. The 52 projects presented can...
Building with wood – Path to the future I Berlin
A fascinating exhibition on the current building culture focused on wood – the natural, renewable resource. With international and national projects, the exhibition presents ecologically sustainable and actual positions in modern wood architecture. Spectacular projects, contemporary urban wooden dwellings, and...
Hermann Kaufmann WOOD WORKS I Munich
...and landscapes. The community centre Ludesch in Vorarlberg, which was built according to his plans, has been awarded several prizes and showcases building biologically and energy-efficiency through modern technology, at international standards. Materials, presentations, photo essays of this project are...