House D, Bregenz
Architect: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architects
Location: Bregenz, Austria
Type: House
Year: 2016
Photographs: Bruno Klomfar
The following description is courtesy of the architects. Located on a mountain overlooking Bregenz, House D′s open floorplans and generous glazing allow for magnificent views over the surrounding countryside and Lake Constance. The home is stratified into 3 stories, with the Entrée and utilities located on the basement, guest and children′s rooms on the garden floor, and Master bedroom and an open layout kitchen + dining + living room at the top. In order to strengthen the connection to the natural environment, the living floor floats above the meadow slope, framed on all sides by wide cantilevered terraces – living extensions outdoors, protected by the roof slab.
The geometric form of the home, combined with the architect′s decision to construct with concrete and timber, create a powerful building that seems to blend into the surrounding landscape. Furthermore, the attention to detail highlights the craftsmanship for which this region of Austria has become famous. The reduced material is finely varied: exposed concrete surfaces are smooth or with a board structure, oak and silver fir are used after atmospheric effects. Even the white surfaces offer a wide spectrum, ranging from the simple paint to the soaked lime smoothing and the white terrazzo surfaces of the bathrooms.
How can we combine urban living with a rural environment, and private life with representation: House D gives a contemporary response.
Project Details
- Architecture: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
- Project management: Felix Kruck
- Construction: 2014-2016
- Floor space: 210 m²
Partners
- Construction management: Baukultur Management, Schwarzenberg
- Structural engineering concrete: Mader & Flatz, Bregenz
- Structural engineering timber: Merz Kley Partner, Dornbirn
- Timber construction: oa.sys baut, Alberschwende
- Building services: GMI- Ing. Peter Messner, Dornbirn
- HVACR: Steurer Siegfried Installationen Energietechnik, Schwarzenberg
- Electronics: Schneider Hubert Elektrotechnik, Schwarzenberg
- Interior: Lenz-Nenning, Dornbirn; Rüscher, Schnepfau; Schmidinger, Schwarzenberg
- Landscape: Balliana Schubert, Zürich
- Pictures: © Bruno Klomfar
- Plans: © Dietrich | Untertrifaller
