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Entwurf • Design Formwænde, Lüneburg
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Bauherr • Client Privat
Standort • Location Lüneburg
Nutzfläche • Floor space 150 m 2
Fotos • Photos Dan Hannen, Paul Gerdes
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 142
ART NOUVEAU VILLA
IN LÜNEBURG
Florian Kienast founded the Formwænde planning office
in Lüneburg 20 years ago. Almost as long ago, he was
commissioned to partially refurbish an art-nouveau villa
whose gradual renovation was to follow the trained joi-
ner and his team for many years. In four construction
phases, they used functional customized installations to
take the distinguished building into the modern times.
F ormwænde lovingly already describes the project as a “permanent
building site of a special kind”. This is because the conversion of
the classy art-nouveau villa on the southern periphery of Lüneburg has
been keeping the interdisciplinary team busy for almost 15 years by now.
In four construction phases up to now, the planners around of the direc-
tor Florian Kienast have step by step converted the spacious residence
of a north-German family of entrepreneurs; the beginning was the com-
plete renovation of the bathrooms in 2008. Starting in 2018, there was
the restructuring and the refurbishment of the ground floor in the course
of which the kitchen and the office changed places and were given cus-
tomized installations made with high precision. Since then, the study has
been framed by an upscale wall unit consisting of wood painted blue-
green and with elements of walnut, fabric covering of light-coloured linen
and golden buttons. This gives it the appearance of being as intimate,
functional and yet classic similar as a well-designed captain’s cabin on
an elegant tall sailing ship. Such posh but practicable solutions for
rooms were also wanted for the conversion of the two former children’s
rooms into two guestrooms on the upper floor which could be comple-
ted in 2021. In the course of this, the team of Formwænde designed the
wide room located to the south and with little depth by adding a functio-
nal wall with a curved facing shell consisting of oak which was placed
on the opposite side of a long row of windows. With a passage equally
covered with oak and linen fabric, the room next to this towards the
north – which used to be long and narrow prior to the conversion – is
now divided into two almost square spaces of which the front one serves
as a bedroom and study with a small desk and the one at the back as a
dressing room with a spacious built-in wardrobe. With plenty of exper-
tise when it comes to constructing furniture and a timeless-classic range
of materials such as a light-coloured woollen carpet, oak and wicker, the
planners have here combined the functional requirements with the exi-
sting spatial conditions and have given the bourgeois-established old
building a relaxed, contemporary and well- functioning update.
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