WINKLER+RUCK ARCHITEKTEN
Houses in the Forest
best architects 19
commercial/industrial buildings
Place
Turracherhöhe / Austria
Studio
Photos
Winkler+Ruck
Description
Growing
first is forest
then a house on the eastern edge
then one in the west
then one in the middle
where there is space among the trees
because they will stay put
finally the barn on the road
to receive visitors
and to create a backdrop
not a unity – a succession
but also a co-existence
in the forest
Growing
material
concrete
formed with boards
black
cast
for stairs and bathrooms – annex
solid walls – outside and inside
solid floors – above and below
rough walls – smooth floors
timber
from logs
joined stacked galvanised
Tyrolean castle
twenty by twenty centimeters in cross-section
that’s all it takes
except for clever carpenters
space
measured in log lengths
one floor – one room
concrete house for compulsory
wooden house for freestyle