Built work, shown large.
Timber homes, attic conversions and small multi-family houses in and around Leipzig, all in cross-laminated timber. Few photographs, each big enough to judge the building by.
Timber homes
Detached houses where the structure is the finish. The spruce you see on the ceiling is the panel that holds the floor above.
We leave the panel edge visible where wall meets window. It shows how thick the wall is, and it is the first place a client puts their hand.
Every house below was drawn around its plot and its light before anything else. Panels are cut in the factory to our drawings and stand on site within days.
House by the flood meadow
Leipzig-Schleußig, 2023
Two storeys facing the Elster meadows. Living rooms upstairs for the view, bedrooms below among the garden trees.
- Floor area
- 148 m²
- Cladding
- Untreated larch
- Shell on site
- 6 days
Courtyard house
Markkleeberg, 2022
One storey wrapped around a planted court, so every room has daylight from two sides and nobody looks in from the street.
- Floor area
- 122 m²
- Cladding
- Charred spruce
- Shell on site
- 4 days
House on a narrow plot
Leipzig-Lindenau, 2021
5.4 metres wide between two gables. A stair along one wall and a rooflight above it bring daylight down three floors.
- Floor area
- 96 m²
- Cladding
- Larch battens
- Shell on site
- 5 days
Attic conversions
Unused roofs on Leipzig's old blocks, opened to the sky. Timber is light enough for the walls underneath to carry it.
An attic is mostly a question of weight and access. Cross-laminated panels go up by crane in a morning and need no wet trades in a house people are still living in.
Attic above the canal
Leipzig-Plagwitz, 2024
A drying loft in a Gründerzeit block became one long room under a new timber roof, with a terrace cut into the courtyard side.
- Floor area
- 84 m²
- Roof windows
- 7
- Roof closed in
- 3 days
Two attics joined
Leipzig-Südvorstadt, 2022
The roofs of two neighbouring houses, connected through the party wall into a family flat with rooms at either end.
- Floor area
- 131 m²
- Roof windows
- 11
- Roof closed in
- 5 days
Studio under the roof
Leipzig-Leutzsch, 2021
A workroom for a bookbinder. North light over the bench, one chair by the south window, storage built into the eaves.
- Floor area
- 58 m²
- Roof windows
- 4
- Roof closed in
- 2 days
Small multi-family houses
Four to six flats on the gap sites the city still has. Three storeys of timber between brick neighbours.
For building groups and small owners. A prefabricated shell keeps the street closed for days rather than months, and the neighbours notice.
Six flats in a gap
Leipzig-Lindenau, 2024
A building group of six households. Flats run front to back, with a shared stair in timber and a bicycle room at street level.
- Flats
- 6
- Floor area
- 540 m²
- Storeys
- 3
Four flats, one garden
Leipzig-Connewitz, 2022
Two flats per floor around a central stair. Every flat has a loggia facing the shared garden and its old walnut tree.
- Flats
- 4
- Floor area
- 372 m²
- Storeys
- 2
Rear house on the yard
Leipzig-Plagwitz, 2020
Five small flats behind a brick front building, reached through the gateway. Panels came in through an opening 3.1 metres wide.
- Flats
- 5
- Floor area
- 318 m²
- Storeys
- 3
Project names, dates and figures on this page are sample entries until the studio's own project records replace them.
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