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Hotel Bauhofstrasse
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commercial/industrial buildings
Place
Ludwigsburg, Germany
Studio
Photos
Brigida González
Description
Hotel Bauhofstrasse
is a consistently sustainable new building with eyes on the future. Due to a
sensitive approach to urban integration into the surrounding fabric of historic
buildings, the building references the height of the existing buildings and
their scale. With a façade concept inspired by these
historic buildings that is striking in its materiality and structure, its
appearance is sufficiently distinct for the building to assert itself in the
neighbourhood. The hotel thus contributes to the revitalisation of the
surrounding district. By choosing the trendsetting
construction principle of wooden room modules it sets standards in ecology,
efficiency, construction period and quality. The modules were
produced in Austria from local Vorarlberg wood, transported to Ludwigsburg and
installed on site within five working days. The walls, floors and ceilings of
the hotel rooms were assembled into container-like room modules at the factory
using cross laminated timber panels cut to size under computer control. The
concrete stairwell reinforces the structure. While the shingling with white
Eternit plates does not reveal that this is a wooden building, the surfaces
inside remain visible in their inherent construction and thus allows the haptic
and atmospheric properties of the material to come to the fore. A total of 440
cubic metres of wood were used in the construction of the building. Due to the
effects of storage and substitution, 800 tonnes of CO₂ have thus
permanently been removed from the atmosphere. The result is a carbon neutral
building.