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Entwurf • Design Georg Bechter Architektur + Design
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan Grundriss Dachgeschoss • Attic floor plan ustainability, respect for what exists, global thinking and local ac-
Grundriss 1. Obergeschoss • Floor plan level +1 Querschnitt • Transversal section old stable for his very own purposes. Where it was necessary, he ope-
Ansicht West • View west
Ansicht Ost • View east
Ansicht Süd • View south
Ansicht Nord • View north
Bauherr • Client Georg Bechter, AT-Hittisau
Standort • Location Dorf 135a, AT-Hittisau
Nutzfläche • Floor space 1.100 m 2
Fotos • Photos Adolf Bereuter, AT-Dornbirn
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126
GEORG BECHTER
IN HITTISAU
Outwardly, Georg Bechter might be one of the “young
wild ones” of the capital. Only once you know him and
his work better, you notice how deeply he is rooted in the
Vorarlberg. His architectural office has now found a new
home in the parental stable. The construction materials:
timber, clay, straw and sheep’s wool. After the tour – and
this is also typical of Bechter – a schnapps is offered.
S ting: Those are popular keywords constantly being mentioned these
days – in architecture as well. The subsequent implementation, howe-
ver, only rarely succeeds and then also only by few representatives of
the profession in such a consistent way as shown by the Hittisau archi-
tect and lighting designer Georg Bechter. Keyword local: There is a di-
stance of just five metres between his childhood home and his new of-
fice- and workshop building. The latter is his father’s old stable. Three
years ago, cows had still been standing in it; nowadays, this is where
Bechter produces architecture as well as luminaires for the internatio-
nal market. His mother still lives in the building next door. With respect,
but without false modesty, Bechter has succeeded in appropriating the
ned the façades and the roof; all in all, however, he has left the striking
structure in the landscape untouched. Diagonally oriented slats stand
represent the new content. The ground floor and half each of the upper
and the top level are reserved for the manufacturing of Bechter’s small
but fine luminaire company. What is being produced here enjoys in-
creasing popularity among architects and interior designers. Now deve-
lopment, production and logistics have found a place under one room
and share the adjacent office spaces with the no less thriving architec-
tural company specializing in small private buildings in the region. A
total of 15 employees are working together here in a family-like atmo-
sphere for the one or the other line of business. The workstations are
spread across two levels which are linked with large open spaces. The
materials used reflect Bechter’s understanding of sustainability: The
rooms are insulated with straw bales; the walls are plastered with clay
from Bechter’s own building pit and the floor as well is nothing more
than stamped earth, polished and finished until an attractive kind of
“clay terrazzo” resulted. A ceiling cladding of sheep’s wool ensures good
acoustics. The most attractive room: a two-level conservatory which
opens to the scenery and serves as a break room and an office kitchen.
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