Floor plan
About architect
| Project | House for Gudrun |
| Design | Sven Matt |
| Area | 100 sqm |
| Budget | € 170,000 |
| Primary energy requirement | 35 kWh / m²a |
| Year | 2010 |
| Location | Mellau, Vorarlberg, Austria |
| Photography | Björn Matt |
Sometimes there is no alternative to your own house: for your own peace, your own freedom, your own nature, your own way. Even the tight budget of a tight budget could not dissuade the client from her plans.
This is how this “two-room apartment” 100 sqm prefab wooden house was built in prefabricated wood, one storey, without a basement on a concrete floor slab.
The interior of the small, black-glazed prefab wooden house offers living and living space along the entire depth of the 100 sqm house, plus two other small rooms: one connected privately, the other accessible from the hallway.
Behind the entrance is a core for technology and wet room. You look outside through four large openings - one on each outer wall. Depending on their function, direction and surroundings, they reach down to the floor or are set off with a parapet, cut flat into the facade or deeply notched: in the east the access, in the north the bedrooms, in the south the dining area, in the west the private exit for a view of the valley.
The space economy led to the integration of the service components into the walls. This includes a wardrobe, kitchenette, built-in closet and a small writing space. A seat in the rear wall of the wet room is also included. This niche is darkened with concrete panels, as if you should be able to concentrate and retreat here - otherwise silver fir dominates the interior.
Entrance, hallway and functional cells have the usual room height, bedroom and living room extend below the flat sloping roof, making the rooms appear spacious. The building is heated by the woodchip heater of the neighboring house: the system supplies the underfloor heating under the ground cement screed.
