Housing Development in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Issue
01-02/2018 Timber Construction
Author
Julia Liese
Source
DETAIL
Task
New construction
Location
Germany, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Architecture
Beer Bembé Dellinger
Apart from the basement the houses were erected using a wood panel construction system with prefabricated cross laminated timber elements. Externally these were clad with a rough cut larch boarding, in the area of the loggias a system of horizontal timber sections form a permeable layer, part of which serves as a parapet, while part screens the residents from the sun and enquiring gazes.
© Bert Heinzlmeier
A new residential district of timber houses organised in rows has been created close to the historic centre of Garmisch. A large hotel complex was originally planned for this site, but a specially founded association objected to the investors' plans and called for the preservation of a number of typical old houses and the erection of a new, small-structured housing...
Apart from the basement the houses were erected using a wood panel construction system with prefabricated cross laminated timber elements. Externally these were clad with a rough cut larch boarding, in the area of the loggias a system of horizontal timber sections form a permeable layer, part of which serves as a parapet, while part screens the residents from the sun and enquiring gazes.
© Bert Heinzlmeier