Multi-Family House, Baden-Württemberg Multi-Generational Home, German Residential Property
Multi-Family House in Aichwald
1 July 2020
Multi-Family House
Design: holzerarchitekten
Location: Aichwald, Baden-Württemberg, south west Germany
The Multi-Family House is located in Aichschiess, a small village just 30 minutes outside of Stuttgart an old farmhouse is the origin of the development of a multi-generational home right in the town centre.

The construction: too fragile to consider a renovation and rooms too little in height to be used for living under modern standards and rights. But there are two clients with a vision of creating a multi-family house for people of all generations benefiting each others everyday life by sharing tasks and taking care of each other as a whole new family-like community.
But how to implement this very new style of living into the urban context of the village without breaking out of the existing building structure" Also a lot of requirements such as steep sloped roofs, red tiles and white plastered walls, wooden window frames and shutters are demanded by the ?village conservation statue? and have to be considered in the designing process.

Typologically important features of the old building were taken up and put into a new perspective, for example the entrance area is found where the old threshing floor was located, which connected the former main house and the barn. Oak pieces, rescued during the demolition of the old farmhouse wer...