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MUSEUM . BEZAU

Innauer Matt Architekten . photos: © Dominic Kummer

The Museum Bezau intertwines the past with the present. The historic, heritage-listed building is an outstanding exhibit on its own – a showpiece that immerses the visitor in the local building culture and its close connection between architecture and craftmanship. The extension ties in with the history and takes it further in its own language. With the continuation, the traditional order of the Bregenzerwald house with its front and rear building sections is restored. Continue reading Innauer Matt

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Brosi Eco Flats . Weiler

Innauer Matt Architekten . photos: © Dominic Kummer

At the threshold to Weiler, a village in the Rhine Valley of western Austria, lies a building site intended for homebuilders. Contrary to all expectations, however, the last vacant plot in the single-family house quarter did not become the site of a white plastered dream house, but of a compact, wooden building with five residential units. A conceptual and compositional counterpoint to the otherwise strict and monofunctional corset of the single-family home — a place offering space for people who think of their lives in different phases and want to flexibly adapt their living needs. Continue reading Innauer Matt

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Revitalization Kriechere 70 . Bezau

Innauer Matt Architekten . photos: © Adolf Bereuter

Whole generations of villagers and valley residents have pressed their nose against the large shop windows facing Bezau’s village street to admire the latest photographs. The barn, where cows used to dwell in earlier times, was later home to the business of the Hiller family of photographers. Johann Kaspar Hiller laid the foundation as the Bregenzerwald’s first photographer. His daughter Hedwig later continued the legacy – as Vorarlberg’s first female professional photographer – and commissioned young Bezau architect Leopold Kaufmann to set up her photo studio. Continue reading Innauer Matt

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Kindergarten Kreuzfeld . Altach

Innauer Matt Architekten . photos: © Nicolas Wefers

The new Kindergarten Kreuzfeld is an important milestone in the development of the Kreuzfeld neighborhood in Altach (Vorarlberg, Austria) and unites kindergarten and infant care beneath one roof. With the newly added building, a neighborhood center has been created which establishes an identity and radiates into the village as a place of social encounter. Continue reading Innauer Matt