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House Welser

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

HOUSE WELSER

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ARCHITECTS
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LOCATION
Mutters, Austria

CATEGORY
Houses

MANUFACTURERS
Dow Building Solutions, Glutz, Hansgrohe, Plaka

AREA
272 m²

YEAR
2016

PHOTOGRAPHS
Günter Richard Wett

Text description provided by architect.

Haus Welser is located on a tree-lined hill in the heart of Mutters – a small town perched high above Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria). The site’s special location offers a clear view over the neighbouring properties to the “Nordkette”, or northern chain of mountains in the Karwendel Range.

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

The vast Wipptal Valley opens up to the south, towards the Brenner Pass, allowing extensive sunshine all day. The exposed location required a deliberate and conservative positioning of the building structure.

To achieve this, the house is embedded in the existing terrain like a natural feature, with a pleasing, barely perceptible, appearance. Save this picture!

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

Access to the entrance area, which unites the ground floor with the top floor, is provided via the forecourt to the east, with an adjacent underground garage.The ground floor, which disappears almost completely in the slope, is reserved for the four children.

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

Each of the children’s rooms has direct access to the garden. All functions of the living area (living, dining, cooking and working), and the parents’ bedroom, with an en suite bathroom and dressing room, are housed on the top floor.

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

The floor plan of the top floor is dominated by freestanding walls, loosely zoned functional areas, a central atrium and an expansive, south-west-facing terrace.

Seating recesses are cut out of the thick, polished concrete walls. A central wood-fired furnace made of blackened steel, which blends harmoniously into one of the seating recesses, provides pleasant heat in the colder months.

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

The protrusions and recesses in the building’s structure provide shelter from the wind and shade.

The surrounding greenery of garden serves as an extension to the interior and forms a natural screen to protect the residents’ privacy.

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett
House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett

The outward appearance of the house is dominated by the sharp-edged roof made of silver fir, which rests fully on the free-standing polished concrete walls.

The window reveals are made of dark brown varnished wood.The fascia and window ledges were bordered in sheet copper.

In accordance with the design concept, the materials used for the exterior are also found in the interior – polished concrete walls, a silver fir soffit, and floors and interior doors made of oak for a balance of materials.

House Welser
© Günter Richard Wett


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