NO.154
LANDHAUS / Thomas Kröger Architekt
HOUSES, REFURBISHMENT
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BERLIN, GERMANY
• Architects: Thomas Kröger Architekt
• Area: 320 m²
• Year: 2014
Materials: larch, Pine floorboards. Corian
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In a small village in the middle of the Uckermark - north of Berlin, a large stable was converted into a country house with a holiday apartment to be used separately. The sta-ble was built 140 years ago in a mixed construction of brick masonry and wooden con-tainers. In its time, a highly modern functional building. After the squire was driven out and the land was divided, the complex was used for two settler families including cattle in a semi-detached house.
One half was now redesigned by Thomas Kröger Architekt for a young family in such a way that the language of the house was adapted to reinvent it with its own means and rules. This former cowshed together with the barn is an extremely stable building with thick stone walls, small windows on the upper floor and a large wooden gate below. The own beauty of the raw structure and the spaciousness of the room could only be experi-enced again through the gutting.
The center of the house is a double-height living room with a fireplace. Three large new arch openings, which can be closed by massive wooden gates, give a view of the green country with the many fruit trees. The house is designed so that the large hall is unheat-ed and is enclosed by a closed, heated room. In cold seasons, only the smaller and more sociable areas of the house can be used, similar to bird nests. Right next to the hall there is a slightly raised living room with a free-standing kitchen. The dining area next to it is crowned by a wooden pyramid. On the upper floor, the hall is enclosed like a bracket of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two study rooms and a loggia. There is a holiday home for guests on the gable end. The apartment is separately accessible and also connected to the central hall. The living and dining area is located on the ground floor and two bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor.
A transformation also took place on the building envelope. The intervention in the struc-ture is hardly legible on the street side. The representative gesture shows itself with new openings to the private garden and only brings the desired interlocking of interior and exterior space with it. The entire building was also energetically upgraded during this careful renovation. The walls of the heated rooms were insulated on the inside and pro-vided with wall heating and clay plaster. All rooms, whether heated or unheated, have the same surface qualities.
The building was completely redesigned in order to convert it from the former agricul-tural use into a residential building.
#Germany , #stable , #house , #interior_design
@revitalization
LANDHAUS / Thomas Kröger Architekt
HOUSES, REFURBISHMENT
•
BERLIN, GERMANY
• Architects: Thomas Kröger Architekt
• Area: 320 m²
• Year: 2014
Materials: larch, Pine floorboards. Corian
•
In a small village in the middle of the Uckermark - north of Berlin, a large stable was converted into a country house with a holiday apartment to be used separately. The sta-ble was built 140 years ago in a mixed construction of brick masonry and wooden con-tainers. In its time, a highly modern functional building. After the squire was driven out and the land was divided, the complex was used for two settler families including cattle in a semi-detached house.
One half was now redesigned by Thomas Kröger Architekt for a young family in such a way that the language of the house was adapted to reinvent it with its own means and rules. This former cowshed together with the barn is an extremely stable building with thick stone walls, small windows on the upper floor and a large wooden gate below. The own beauty of the raw structure and the spaciousness of the room could only be experi-enced again through the gutting.
The center of the house is a double-height living room with a fireplace. Three large new arch openings, which can be closed by massive wooden gates, give a view of the green country with the many fruit trees. The house is designed so that the large hall is unheat-ed and is enclosed by a closed, heated room. In cold seasons, only the smaller and more sociable areas of the house can be used, similar to bird nests. Right next to the hall there is a slightly raised living room with a free-standing kitchen. The dining area next to it is crowned by a wooden pyramid. On the upper floor, the hall is enclosed like a bracket of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two study rooms and a loggia. There is a holiday home for guests on the gable end. The apartment is separately accessible and also connected to the central hall. The living and dining area is located on the ground floor and two bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor.
A transformation also took place on the building envelope. The intervention in the struc-ture is hardly legible on the street side. The representative gesture shows itself with new openings to the private garden and only brings the desired interlocking of interior and exterior space with it. The entire building was also energetically upgraded during this careful renovation. The walls of the heated rooms were insulated on the inside and pro-vided with wall heating and clay plaster. All rooms, whether heated or unheated, have the same surface qualities.
The building was completely redesigned in order to convert it from the former agricul-tural use into a residential building.
#Germany , #stable , #house , #interior_design
@revitalization
The house has been built around two main spaces in double and triple-height, visually con-nected to each other in all their diagonals and in constant relationship with the outside. Inside them the program associated with the day is developed, such as eating, cooking, meeting, working, playing, socializing, relaxing, etc. The bedrooms are located in the integrated volume placed in the west zone, in a more private area. Finally, in the adjacent volume on the north-east, an additional bedroom has been situated, which is independent of the main house.
To connect the vertical spaces, the original stairs have been conserved, with steps formed by large stones that offload their weight onto the ground. As an antagonist, a new metal sheet staircase has been designed that seems to levitate on the wooden floor.
The old stable has thus become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move to look at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures.
“These days I am building a house in a village, the land of my ancestors, in the Celtic Olympus [1]. In fact, it is a rehabilitation of a small animal stable made of large, well-arranged, granite ashlars. Almost like occupying a cave. I will use only 7 cm thick Oregon pine planks to solve the floor slabs. You may wonder why from Oregon and not from my country. That’s a fight be-tween me and the moths. The moths suffer more from the stomach with a wood that is not na-tive and that, at least, is winning the first battle.
The slabs have to bridge a distance of 5.20 meters between supports. The loose planks with-out gluing or tongue will solve everything with the help of simple truck straps.
The carpenter who sold me the wood says that it won’t work, the structural engineer, an infalli-ble guy, has serious doubts, and I do nothing but appeal to common sense or, what is the same, remember that evasive phrase: «But if God works by traction»… We will soon know if, as old Oteiza wrote, «there is a God to the northwest» [2], or maybe not.” – Arturo Franco
[1] It refers to Mount Pindo in the municipality of Carnota in A Coruña.
[2] OTEIZA, Jorge: Existe dios al noroeste, Navarra: Pamiela, 1990.
“Now the old stable has become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move looking at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures. 70 / 80 cm stone walls, a triple ventilated roof made of fibre cement and wood, and a new window open to the west, to squeeze the afternoon sun, so needed in this land with no sun.”- Arturo Franco
#Spain, #house, #structure, #interior_design, #wood, #stone, #stable, #farmhouse
@revitalization
To connect the vertical spaces, the original stairs have been conserved, with steps formed by large stones that offload their weight onto the ground. As an antagonist, a new metal sheet staircase has been designed that seems to levitate on the wooden floor.
The old stable has thus become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move to look at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures.
“These days I am building a house in a village, the land of my ancestors, in the Celtic Olympus [1]. In fact, it is a rehabilitation of a small animal stable made of large, well-arranged, granite ashlars. Almost like occupying a cave. I will use only 7 cm thick Oregon pine planks to solve the floor slabs. You may wonder why from Oregon and not from my country. That’s a fight be-tween me and the moths. The moths suffer more from the stomach with a wood that is not na-tive and that, at least, is winning the first battle.
The slabs have to bridge a distance of 5.20 meters between supports. The loose planks with-out gluing or tongue will solve everything with the help of simple truck straps.
The carpenter who sold me the wood says that it won’t work, the structural engineer, an infalli-ble guy, has serious doubts, and I do nothing but appeal to common sense or, what is the same, remember that evasive phrase: «But if God works by traction»… We will soon know if, as old Oteiza wrote, «there is a God to the northwest» [2], or maybe not.” – Arturo Franco
[1] It refers to Mount Pindo in the municipality of Carnota in A Coruña.
[2] OTEIZA, Jorge: Existe dios al noroeste, Navarra: Pamiela, 1990.
“Now the old stable has become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move looking at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures. 70 / 80 cm stone walls, a triple ventilated roof made of fibre cement and wood, and a new window open to the west, to squeeze the afternoon sun, so needed in this land with no sun.”- Arturo Franco
#Spain, #house, #structure, #interior_design, #wood, #stone, #stable, #farmhouse
@revitalization