Max Otto Zitzelsberger's elevated picket building in Bavaria
Architect and professor Max Otto Zitzelsberger presents the Studying Home, a analysis venture centered on timber building and environmental schooling, situated on the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz, an outside space museum in Bavaria. This venture, developed in collaboration with Zitzelsberger's structure college students on the Technical College of Kaiserslautern-Landau, replaces a foremost constructing that was misplaced to fireside, complementing the prevailing buildings of a former four-sided farmhouse. The brand new light-weight construction, a easy timber body constructing, makes use of wooden sustainably sourced from close by forests, reflecting a dedication to inexperienced constructing practices.
all photos by Sebastian Schels
From Stone to Timber: The Evolution of the Home of Studying
Situated on the location of a former four-sided farmhouse, the brand new constructing by Max Otto Zitzelsberger and his college students replaces the principle farmhouse that was destroyed by hearth. Constructed as a easy timber body construction, it makes use of sustainably harvested wooden from the close by forest. The timber was felled within the winter, rigorously minimize on web site with a cell noticed and gently dried for over a yr. Utilizing supplies sparingly, German architect and his workforce was in a position to cut back the cross-sections of the load-bearing timber as a result of high quality of the timber. The constructing is raised on a number of concrete basis necks, minimizing the usage of concrete. This elevation serves not solely as a sustainable building alternative, but in addition as an architectural assertion. Whereas the brand new constructing attracts inspiration from the type of the unique farmhouse, it intentionally deviates from the historic design at key factors, creating a contemporary reinterpretation of the misplaced construction.
The unique farmhouse, constructed of heavy stone and brick, has developed over the generations, with numerous extensions progressively altering its look. As a substitute, the brand new construction takes a extra summary strategy. Whereas the unique constructing stood firmly on the bottom, the substitute is mild, elevated and floats above the location. Its plan, utterly reimagined for its new function as a seminar house for environmental schooling, displays a transparent departure from the previous. Though the unusual extensions of the previous constructing are echoed within the new design, they don’t seem to be replicated however reinterpreted.
the brand new light-weight construction takes form as a easy picket constructing
an “Anti-project” on the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz
The Home of Studying on the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz is a counter-project to the everyday status buildings of German open-air museums, which regularly bask in extreme use of supplies, sources and house. In some ways it may be seen as an 'anti-project', difficult conventional notions of building. There isn’t a fastened schedule – building happens as supplies and capabilities turn out to be out there, making the method an integral a part of the result. This strategy rejects linearity and finality, embracing a dynamic and fluid course of wherein every stage is each an final result and an intermediate stage. Impressed by Herta Müller's phrase collage, the venture displays a recycling of concepts, exploring different futures and the variation of prospects, with out a remaining “completed” state.
the venture is put in on the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz, an open-air museum in Bavaria
the venture makes use of sustainably sourced wooden from close by forests
the substitute is raised and hovers over the location