Current Ongoing Projects:
RIC, Conversion of an apartment, PT
GH, Garden pavilion, AT
LO, Interior, AT

 

( Studio )       Bonfim

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Approaching the house, 2020( 2 )
Interior, 2020
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Floor plans:
± 0 arriving, +1 sleeping
+2 living/cooking/dining, +3 working( 4 )
Interior, 2020, Photo by Lukas Walcher ( 5 )
 Sections( 6 )
Exterior, 2020, Photo by Lukas Walcher

( AS ) Am Salvenberg

Family house
L:     Westendorf, Tyrol, AT
P:    Michael Hafner and Lukas Walcher
Y:    2018–2020High above the village, on the steep southern slope of the Salvenberg, the house sits on the edge of a small hamlet. As elongated and compact as possible in its cubature, the building follows the terrain and makes use of the sloping site.    
    The four storeys follow a clear division into a slender service layer in the depth of the floor plan and a serviced room layer in the front. This organization and the narrow layout of the floor plan enable optimal orientation and opening of the rooms to the surrounding landscape, views and light.
    Vertically, the topography of the plot determines the layering of the room programme. While the more introverted functions are firmly set in the stone, the living space rises up from the slope and intertwines with the exterior space. The living space also creates a spatial, sculptural interweaving with the level above with its partial two-storey structure.
    The materiality of the clear volume with its pitched roof is a direct reference to the location. The mineral base of the overlapping walls spanning a forecourt in the rocky terrain. Above it, the dark wooden façade blends into the forest behind it in terms of materiality and colouring, while at the same time referring to the image of sunburnt farmhouses that is so prevalent in the region.

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