CRAFT

Sustainable Architecture is crafted by hands, from natural materials and for an essential purpose. The human desire to create an individual identity beyond industrial mass production is satisfied at the same time as a climate and ressource friendly life is achived.

 

University teaching and working by hands in a low tech workshop are dialectic at first view. Knowledge is not just about naming and explaning processes. A deeper understanding of architecture and object design occures in the physical making by own hands and tools.
 
"Chainsaw and chisel taught me the next lesson in woodwork after carpenter education and engineer diploma at technical university." (rm)

 

Craftmenship
2018 |oak furniture, from own log to massiv wood piece, crafted in own workshop

  • Wall cupboard sleeping room 370x280x2.5 cm, 8 doors, 12 drawers
  • Bookshelf Atelier 350x280x40 cm, 6 doors
  • Sideboard Atelier 450x70x45 cm 8 drawers
  • Sideboard Bathroom 180x50x75 cm, 6 drawers
  • Desk 440x100x75 cm, 3 working stations, 3 conical planks a 440x44x3 cm

2017 | cherry wood massive Wall Cupboards 400x220x2.5 cm, 6 doors

2015 | nut tree massive furniture, texture up to 5 meter traversing

  • Kitchen 3x 300x240x60cm, 22 drawers, 13 doors
  • Wardrobe 2x 300x240x60 cm, 10 doors
  • Living room Shelf 250x180x40 cm, 3 sliding doors. In cooperation with carpenter Schipfer
  • Concrete work plates in kitchen, up to 300x100x3.6 cm, UHPC reinforced including monolithic basin.

2014 | Own oak from log to timber piling floor. 180m2, oak piles up to 450x40x3 cm. In Cooperation with nature park carpenter Gollob and EHP Frauental
2013 | NB56 2-story Passive house timberframe construction hybrid with recycling bricks
2012 | NB56 conversion of olf Farmhouse, roof truss crafted in own workshop
2012 | Oak and fir tree fell in own forest, 10 + 60 fm for piles and timber structure
2006 | Oak tub oval, conical 70x40x40 cm
2005 | Oak wardrobe, black steel 100x50x200 cm
2004 | Nut tree bed 180x203x60 cm

 

 




 

 

MAKING OF NB56

"My sons great-grandfather has been a role model for what I was doing here in a contemporary way. He was a poor farmer, surviving world war two and producing almost everything for life himself. He had no higher education, no employer ever, just autonomy, a healthy body and a clear mind. The old farmhouse and everything in it, beside Radio, TV and drilling machine have been selfmade by him." (rm)
 
"Radio (Ö1) taught me once that a painter has to work 11 hours in his job in order to afford himself a painter for one hour." (rm)
 
Adding these two stories to each other, it was clear to follow the own craftmen skills, to use own wood from the forest for structure, divisions, floors and furniture and by that achive financial autonomy without a bank credit. Experimental hybrid combinations of own recycling brick for storage mass and clay plaster on high insulated timber frame construction became possible. Or, as last example, the self molded concrete kitchen worktop avoided the beautiful but unsustainable stone from an african quarry.