Ecology & Sustainability

Ecological and sustainable building considers the interactions between people, their built environment and ecosystems and calls for a way of building and using buildings that intervenes as gently as possible in the cycle of nature and leaves future generations with an intact environment worth living in.

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Primary school Wals-Siezenheim

The new building for the primary school, after-school care and other communal functions forms an anchor point for the entire town in the no-man's land...

Alnatura Campus

For the 55,000 square metre Alnatura Campus, the former barracks site in the southwest of Darmstadt was extensively renaturalised. Sealed areas were b...

Catholic competence center Salzburg

The Caritas headquarters in Salzburg now accommodate around 100 employees. In addition to a counseling service, Friedensstraße now also houses the six...

Straw house Bechter

The clients wanted a barrier-free, cost-effective and ecological house - so they came up with the idea of building it from straw. The architect design...

Kulturkraftwerk oh456

The plus-energy office building oh456 with attached small hydropower plant serves as a prototype for testing innovative technologies. The building wil...

Parish Seetal

The construction emphasizes constructive wood protection. The heating works fully solar by means of concrete core activation. The building was designe...

Rectory Bruck

The facade is made of sawed larch, which has been treated with a special glaze to anticipate the natural gray coloration....

office building 2226

The goals: The Crinolbau, in need of renovation, was to make way for a contemporary and economical replacement building that respects its historical s...

House Streckhof

At the beginning of the planning there were long discussions with the builders, site visits, studies to find the suitable place where the new member s...

House Baierl

The monolithic single-family house was built with 50 cm thick plane bricks. As a natural building material, they make the building durable....

House W

This residential house reflects the trend of monolithic construction in modern timber construction and shows that tradition and new developments can b...

House Aigner

The semi-detached house, which is situated on the Tennengebirge in Salzburgerland, was built in solid wood construction. It is insulated with wood fib...

House G

The desire of the owners, a family with two children, was to build simple and alpine in the best sense. The outer skin, the vertical, raw wood formwor...

House Maier

The monolithic single-family house made of wood sees itself as an attempt to question, break open and rethink the conventional. The narrow upward stri...

House Dornbirn

Plastered 50 bricks, oak, concrete, little steel, glass - high-quality materials and simple construction make the monolithic single-family house robus...

Der Stadtelefant

A new Gründerzeit - there is more building going on in Vienna than there has been in a long time. From the synergies of three architectural firms acti...