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Entwurf • Design Yonder, Stuttgart
Foto: Henrik Schipper, courtesy of JUNG
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan low the regional building traditions. For Oberreute, Knaus and Bosch in-
Grundriss Dachgeschoss • Attic floor plan Schnitte • Sections
Bauherr • Client Privat
Standort • Location Irsengund 12, Oberreute
Nutzfläche • Floor space 130 m 2
Fotos • Photos (2, 3, 4) Brigida Gonzaléz, Stuttgart
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 142
HOUSE S
IN OBERREUTE
For years, the building clients have been attracted to the
Allgäu – away from hectic Berlin, into the rural idyll of
the German alpine upland. After a long search, a site
was found on a steep slope in Oberreute. Not easy to
build on but with a great view! A weekend- and holiday
home, with the prospect of becoming a retirement resi-
dence, this was the task of Studio Yonder in 2017.
K atja Knaus is a professor teaching at the Munich Academy of Fine
Arts; Benedikt Bosch is a professor at Biberach University of Ap-
plied Sciences; for ten years, they have been jointly managing the Stutt-
gart Studio Yonder architectural office. In the course of the past years,
numerous award-winning buildings designed by the office have been
constructed in the Allgäu, in the nearby Vorarlberg region and in the
Black Forest. The projects are characterized by unconventional soluti-
ons for layout on small areas as well as by clever decisions regarding
the materials and the construction. Not necessarily as to their form but
to their ideas, meaning economical and sustainable, the buildings fol-
itially developed the plan of a “raised hide”: A small holiday home on
a square layout at a lofty altitude, underneath it a two-storey timber
construction which, at a later point in time, could have been developed
into an actual residential building. But the municipal council opposed
the tower-like construction. The architects had to reduce the future con-
struction volume and placed the sauna originally planned inside the
building into a separate component on the site. It took more than two
years until the start of construction, two more until the completion. The
original “raised hide” can still be noticed on the façade and the interior
division of functions. On the ground floor is only a small guestroom, a
bathroom as well as the utility room. The actual living area has been
arranged on the floor above this. Living room, dining area and kitchen
easily merge. Under the roof, a large sleeping gallery opens which is vi-
sually and acoustically connected with the living room below it. The
house has been given its special appeal – inside as well as outside – by
a clever torsion. On the outside, it is the roof ridge which deviates from
the orthogonal, forces the roof edges to rise and fall and, in this way,
causes the views of the house to move. The walls inside the house, in
turn, follow by having the same angles and giving the rather small, effi-
ciently dimensioned rooms their very own quality due to the resulting
expansions – a strong effect achieved by simple means.
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