House L49 Tübingen, Modern Baden-Württemberg Home, southwest German Eco Home, Architecture Images
House L49, Tübingen
26 Sep 2022
Design: METARAUM Architects – Wallie Heinisch, Stuttgart
Location: Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany

Photos by Zooey Braun
House L49, Germany
Location concept/initial situation: Felldorf is a small village, part of the municipality of Starzach in the district of Tübingen. It is rural in character and has little more than 750 inhabitants. A strip of land along the exit from the town, which is lined with apple trees, is designated by the municipality as a smaller building land area. The last plot is owned by the builder’s family and can now be built on to a small extent. The rest remains grassland. The country road on which the property is located leads into the village with embankments on both sides and sloping terrain. Above the road, the highest area of Felldorf, the sweeping view of the softly undulating landscape opens up with its scattered farmsteads, forest islands and fields. Now the new house is the first house at the entrance to the village, previously it was a weather-beaten barn.

Architectural construction concept: The client for House L49, who is himself a structural engineer, and the client, who is entrepreneurially active in the field of renewable energy with a focus on geothermal energy and heat pump systems.
They envisioned a modernistic, cubic residential building supported by a sustainable buildi...