Designed by MHM Architects, The boathouse was built as a solitary building at the Seebodner lakeside of the Millstätter lake in Carinthia. The location of the construction is characterized by the intersection line between water and soil, directly at the foot a precipitous slope in which also the remaining buildings of the property complex are situated. Due to their elevated position, those houses have an extensive view at the south and the west façade of the boathouse.
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This distinctive location reasoned, on one hand, a complicated technical and constructional challenge because it needed 10-meters-long drilling posts to reach weight-bearing subsoil to construct the basement. This approach that, due to the nature conservation and water rights notifications, was only achievable by using a base grade, an oil barrier and several other challenging measures. Photography: Paul Ott photografiert
On the other hand, this setup also meant an essential formative element in the development of the building design: the construction body subdivides itself into those parts of the building erected over water and those over the ground, the original shoreline can be read off the two different materials in the facades. Moreover, the wish for a grown appearing house, which in the course of the years is permanently variable in its appearance, stood in the foreground: thus it seems that the building, like a red belt, grows out of the water of the lake.
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