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...
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]...
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,...
Hermann Kaufmann IZM - Illwerke Center Montafon
...opportunities, and areas of application, together. In this dynamic environment, Hermann Kaufmann is the most important protagonists who, with his team, have been pushing the limits of wood for decades. The Illwerke Center Montafon has achieved a quantum-leap in timber...
DETAIL Special - Hermann Kaufmann Architekten
Ecological, durable and climate-friendly: the buildings by Hermann Kaufmann and HK Architekten set standards in a wide variety of aspects. This monograph documents ten future-orientated timber buildings by HK Architekten, which show how softwood and hardwood are used as construction...
Building with Wood - Creating the Future
...The text is illustrated by the presentation of different architectural examples. The emphasis of the second chapter is the constructive / technological aspects, which are outlined in various construction-related case studies. In the third chapter, large-format photography illustrates the enormous...
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...