Everything began by having an asked competition, that is highly unconventional for any single-home. Schneider & Lengauer won the tender coupled with the chance to handle the client’s precise needs at length. Three key needs characterise the end result. First, it had been essential to integrate the characteristics from the site right into a exclusive residential and dealing atmosphere. Second, the customer placed importance on energy-efficient design. And third, the house should reflect the family’s fondness for that colour whitened.
Your building, where the group of four lives with two felines, can also be the place to find the graphics studio from the client and furthermore is definitely the personal photo assortment of the dog owner. Situated on the hilltop sloping towards the south, the house opens to great sights from the Eferding Basin, the piedmont and also the major peaks from the Northern Limestone Alps. Your building evolves across the northern property line, in which the upper floor includes sleeping rooms, sanitary and ancillary rooms, a garage for 2 cars and also the graphics office. Just one straight-flight staircase reveals the primary living space within the basement. This really is designed being an open stage space, fully glazed south and west, having a striking spatial exterior reference. Inside and outside, the dominant colour is whitened (RAL 9016), using the champagne-coloured flooring only lightly being bold.
The south-facing primary level gives space towards the dining and living areas in addition to a music room which includes a library. Defined fittings, like a Victorian corbel mantel, separate these areas. The rounded edges and partly glazed building blur the boundary between exterior and interior. Thus your building envelope conveys a light impression regardless of the distinctive layout. Light-hearted particulars within the interior, especially a Venetian mirror within the fire place, contrast the visible change of weather and plant life. Sliding doorways open the area towards the terrace and pool. After that, a sizable staircase opens towards the lower-laying garden area, a refuge for privacy, lined solely with whitened flowering plants.
The strengthened concrete construction with 25 centimetres wall thickness and outer mineral made of woll insulation (18 centimetres) is included with a flat roof with internal drainage and 24 centimetres thick Expanded polystyrene insulation. The floor warmth exchanger that cools the home in summer time and warms up it in the winter months also adds towards the excellent energy balance. Based on the energy certification of Upper Austria, House L. meets all of the standards of the low-energy house (energy index: 24 kWh / m²a).
