Zurich studio Appels Architekten has created the Wood Home by the Lake, a house in southeast Germany with a cross-laminated timber construction and black-stained cladding.
Comprising boxy volumes topped with a staggered single-pitched roof, the mass-timber home was solely prefabricated earlier than being assembled on the forested web site near a lake in Bavaria.
Aiming to benefit from the views of the encircling nature, Appels Architekten designed the house with loads of open areas and huge openings.
“Our goal was to let the open area unfold horizontally and vertically, bringing mild deep into the home – even in winter – in addition to drawing views into the backyard, the treetops, and throughout the lake from any vantage level,” studio founder Kaspar Appels advised Dezeen.
Wood Home by the Lake has a cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction clad in vertical spruce battens which have been stained black.
The CLT modules had been designed to permit for shorter meeting occasions and the longer term reuse of particular person parts.
“Wooden building permits for a excessive diploma of prefabrication off web site in comparison with typical strong building, and thus shorter meeting occasions and fewer building web site journeys,” stated the studio.
“The resultant separation of constructing parts facilitates restore work and would allow demolition with larger materials separation for a most diploma of reuse and recycling of the used constructing parts.”
Inside, lots of the wood partitions are painted white to brighten the rooms whereas guaranteeing that the feel of the timber stays seen.
“We needed to point out the development wooden brazenly, however keep away from that ‘sauna ambiance’ that many wood homes have,” stated Appels.
“The sunshine color was vital to us as a result of bringing in pure mild between the various massive bushes performed an vital position within the mission. The minimalistic color scheme reinforces the impression of the summary sculptural inside of the stacked packing containers,” he continued.
To protect the materiality of the timber below the paint, Appels Architekten selected a end that highlights its pure texture. The selection was made by the studio after it spent a number of months observing the impact of varied paints and finishes on the fabric.
“The person slats of the cross-laminated timber get pure cracks and the joints between the slats additionally stay in movement,” stated Appels. “We now have subsequently experimented with totally different paints to seek out one that doesn’t cowl the pure construction of the wooden.”
The rooms of the Wood Home by the Lake are organized throughout its related cubic volumes. Bedrooms are positioned on the highest ground, whereas the dwelling and eating areas occupy the bottom ground.
The bottom ground additionally homes a kitchen that may be totally opened to the backyard. Massive openable home windows and sliding doorways elsewhere on this stage cater for additional connection to the skin.
There are further rooms within the basement whereas, outdoors, a stone-paved backyard contains a curved staircase that runs by means of the panorama.
Appels Architekten was based in Zurich by Kaspar and Nikolas Appels in 2018. Different German homes lately featured on Dezeen embody a timber vacation cabin in a forest and a reconstructed thatch cottage with a glazed extension.
The images is by Florian Holzherr.
