Woodwork

This is a wooden house, named Timber House in Bavaria by Kühnlein Architektur, it looks like a modern 'farm' with wooden 'lamelles'.

The house is made up of two 'barn' structures, one containing a living room, a kitchen.. and an other with bedrooms and a bathroom.

The two buildings are conected with a flat roofed passage this gives some privacy for the residents. Both the walls and windows at the front of the house are clad with wooden screens to ensure privacy for residents. These are made from slender vertical lengths of larch, with gaps between the slats to allow light into the house.

"The combination creates two yards," explained German architect Michael Kühnlein junior, who runs Kühnlein Architektur with Michael Kühnlein senior. "One becomes the space you pass by as you enter the house from the street, while the other is a terrace oriented towards the wide landscape."

"The windows to the street side are screened with the lamellae of the timber facade, while the windows to the landscape side have a free view," explained the architect. "The facade is untreated larch wood, so it will grey with time."

The warm tones of the wood are complemented by bespoke copper fittings, which feature on lighting, power sockets, switches, taps and handles. All visible screws are also copper.

"We reduced the interior materials to just timber and copper," said Kühnlein, who also recently completed a wooden shed for his herd of pygmy goats.

"The electrical installation consists of copper pipes installed in front of the massive timber walls, so it was not necessary to perforate the walls," he said. "All the installations were designed by us, including the lamps, switches and sockets."

An open-plan living space occupies the northernmost wing. It includes a wood-burning stove that rotates, as well as dining table created using offcuts from the build. A garage sits at the front of this block.

But won't the copper turn green after a couple of years? And the wood, will it stay nice, or do you need to place new wooden things after 20 years?

source : Dezeen magazine

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