South Tyrol's sunny side

"The most beautiful landscape I have ever seen," wrote Franz Kafka in 1920 to his girlfriend Jesenska. He meant the valley which forms the entrance to the Passeiertal, Vinschgau and the Adige valley and Merano in the second largest city of South Tyrol, and its neighbors is embedded.

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Swiss farmhouse

The Swiss architect Kurt Hauenstein moved with his wife Marilies Düsterhaus ten years ago from Zurich to vial, where they acquired land in regions with an old farmhouse.

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Heterogeneous

With a mission to restore the parental house of two brothers and open to the landscape, began in 2007, the planning for the 98 Ar comprehensive land.

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Strict clarity

The office and residential building in Berlin Wannsee is designed in a rigorous volumetry with a limited range of forms, elements and materials. Everything expresses a love for simplicity with clear structural types, with a wide variety of spaces and sensations.

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Q House

Q House seems contradictory at first glance. The south facade is on the road, although traffic was expected.

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Light and air

The Frankfurt-based architects feuerundschmitz has placed in a residential development area Mainzer cube, which separates the self-confident in his clear, stringent form of the typical saddle-home builder, dream the surroundings.

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Floating Rooms

The concrete house is a marked contrast to the somewhat dull-looking area of single family homes in the popular style unit. Concrete, glass, wood and steel with patina dominate the house, which nestles on a gentle hillside with magnificent views.

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Living cube with valley

On a very steep slope and is therefore deemed unsuitable for existing detached house this property was built in wood frame construction. Above the concrete base stacked four living and sleeping levels, each with about 35 m² of space to a "tower" of each other.

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Classic modern on a slope

A former vineyard with a significant slope was converted to a challenging but beautiful land. The architects of ruby ³ from Darmstadt to four cubic built detached houses with breathtaking views in the Upper Rhine Valley.

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