Buero Kofink Schels . + baunetz
Street, passage, courtyard. A small, simple and yet spatially rich house squeezed into a narrow urban slot not much more than six metres wide. Made from five load-bearing prefabricated panels and thick window frames that hide the internal walls from outside, the new street-facing facade seems to grab on to its neighbours. It is heavy and light, strong and weak at the same time. Continue reading Kofink Schels
Kofink Schels . photos: © Simon Jüttner
Extension / conversion of a former post office´s outbuilding. Continue reading Kofink Schels
Buero Kofink Schels . photos: © Sebastian Schels + Simon Jüttner
Our intern’s sister wants to build a house. With a lot of luck, the land for it was acquired at a discount using the so-called housing model for natives and local residents. The lot is situated between the stables and barns of the neighboring farm and the first completed “dream homes” of the new local housing development. The local zoning plan mandates the direction of the roof and its large overhang as well as the materials for the facade. The homeowners have already consulted various prefab housing companies. But their budget is too tight for them and the companies’ planning proposals are unacceptable, even for “amateurs”.
A simple house, 5.80 x 14 meters, very narrow. The layout for the ground-floor shell consists only of the load-bearing exterior walls and two (non) supporting columns. Unplastered brick masonry, with no ETICS or insulated filling, simply grouted with lime. Continue reading Kofink Schels
Studio Corso . Kofink Schels . + baunetz
Selected entry for the competition won by the team Auer Weber and Grabner Huber Lipp Landschaftsarchitekten. The planning includes the new buildings of the Volkshochschule, library and music school as well as the associated open spaces south of the old school in the Upper Bavarian town of Puchheim. Continue reading Corso . Kofink Schels
Buero Kofink Schels . photos: © Simon Jüttner
Between a small river and the railway tracks an existing house broadly covers the center of a triangular plot. As a low cost extension a simple narrow house squeezes in between the existing building and the perimeter of the plot. A 14m long precast concrete element sits tight in between the two houses connecting them as balcony and canopy covering the access and the entrances of both. It is this connection of the two buildings, that makes it an extension according to building laws, the only possibility to build an additional volume on the plot. The house is built in monolithic brick, it´s walls plastered on both sides not using styrofoam for construction or insulation reasons. The fine finish of the roof tiles at the gable is a traditional detail that has been widely used in profane architecture of the region. Continue reading Kofink Schels
