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Entwurf • Design Klumpp + Klumpp, Stuttgart
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Grundriss Dachgeschoss • Attic floor plan
Bauherr • Client Privat
Standort • Location Hirtobel, AT-Hittisau
Nutzfläche • Floor space 340 m 2
Fotos • Photos David Schreyer, AT-Wien
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126
HOUSE
IN HITTISAU
The client had fallen for an old "Zuhäusl", a cottage in
the classic "Wälder" style. After conversion, it was to
become his new retirement home. However, the dila-
pidated structure made a new building necessary —
planned by Klumpp + Klumpp. The Stuttgart-based ar-
chitects reconstructed the residential wing and created
a modern interpretation for the former barn.
I n search of a new home for the time following his retirement, the
client, a well-known German psychiatrist, was attracted to the Vor-
arlberg region. He knows the area well as he had often come here to
hike at weekends and on holiday. Now he found an old "Zuhäusl", a
small house for a farmer in retirement, in the middle of a steep mea-
dow, which was built a good 100 years ago in Hirtobel in Hittisau. The
house was up for sale and was to become his new home. The original
building was a typical "Wälder" house with a shingle-covered resi-
dential wing on one side and an agriculturally used wing on the other.
It was clear from the outset that the latter could not be preserved in
the course of a conversion. The actual residential building, however,
was to be upgraded to suit the new use. The right architects were
quickly found: the Stuttgart-based architecture firm Klumpp +
Klumpp, "close friends" of the new building owner. The initial work
quickly showed that the residential wing was also of inferior construc-
tion quality. Built quickly and with the simplest of means, it almost
collapsed when the supporting barn was demolished. So instead of a
renovation, the architects planned a new building — on the foundati-
ons of the old house, with identical proportions, floor plans and ma-
terials. Even some of the boards and beams from the previous buil-
ding were incorporated in the new house, for example the panelling
in the living room. On the foundation walls of the agricultural wing,
on the contrary, the architects created a modern interpretation. Verti-
cal plank boarding makes reference to the original barn, while large
glass surfaces indicate the new use of the interior: a large eat-in kit-
chen on the ground floor, a private spa area above, and a guest flat in
the attic. It was a challenge to interweave the small-scale and low par-
lour structure of the new-old residential wing with the spacious open-
plan rooms in the new section. Klumpp + Klumpp masterfully solved
breaks, remaining spaces, differences in height and inconsistencies in
the connection between old and new and created a fine, functional
and atmospherically dense and varied interplay of rooms.
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