Housebook / Bernardo Bader Architects
Housebook / Bernardo Bader Architects
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Text description provided by the architects. We are admirers of the economic and functional virtues of the “Bregenzerwald house”. How can you achieve contemporary quality of life with this landscape-compatible typology?
We knead existing typologies into something unique. With joy according to the method of finding – and not that of inventing. The “Bregenzerwald House” has always had great potential, simply because of the dimensions of the houses, their diversity, and how they were used. Aspects of living, working and storing everything took place in one volume under a common roof. A shape, a body, rectangular, without bumps and constrictions: a precise cultural intervention in a natural space that is treated with respect.
Following this tradition, the Buchen house is also allowed to attract attention with the concentration on form, its dimensions and its unity. A strong motif of the house is that of the landscape and the developed topography. We made sure that the interventions in the building were kept as small as possible. Instead of a basement, which requires both excavation and retaining walls and concrete, a really large attic space is offered. This approach disciplines the least possible earth movement and helps the designer to place the houses precisely in the landscape.
The house is accessed via a small entrance hall at the front. From there, a long and extra wide residential corridor leads deep into the building, a classic center corridor type. The floor plan is organized as an enfilade of rooms, which is finally broken up into a spacious room zone in the form of a kitchen and living room. The walls of the wet rooms, the pantry and the oven wall are solidly cast in fine plank formwork of concrete. It forms the core of the house and provides the necessary storage mass in functionally correct places. All floors and ceilings of the house as well as the other walls are paneled with fine spruce. The reduced but very careful craftsmanship of the rooms, with their dignified furniture, expresses the high level of the living culture of the “Wälderhaus”.
A unique feature of the house is the so-called “Schopf”, a stoep-like veranda built on the sunny eaves, which is integrated into the framework of the wooden structure. The space is wonderfully versatile and enhances family life as the seasons change. It now stands there naturally – like a barn in a pasture – in a rural setting, a simple wooden building with a gable roof. For us, the most important thing is that added value has been created. An added value that has evolved not only from tradition, but from the location and the topography, and that creates space in the interstices for the current as well as long-term needs of a family.
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