Wooden Hut

Wooden Hut

Kawahara Krause Architects

Wooden Hut
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CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Bartholomaeus, Leonberg

PROJECT TEAM
Kawahara Tatsuya, Ellen Kristina Krause

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AREA
11 m²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Leonberg, Germany

CATEGORY
Chapel

Text description provided by architect.

The starting points for this project were two completely independent circumstances. One was a heap of firewood in the client's garden that needed a place to be stacked and dried.

Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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The other was the wish of the religious clients for a place of contemplation and prayer in their house. The design for the wooden hut combines these two different wishes.

It is a small private chapel in the clients' garden that is built of firewood. The hut consists of five wooden frames that are stacked with firewood, thus forming the outer walls.

Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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The comfortably dim space inside is spotted by countless rays of light sparkling through the logs.

In the course of time, dried wood is being used and replaced by new wood resulting in a constant change in the walls of the hut. The stacking pattern changes as well as the colour of the wood.

The space is created by only two walls. They open up towards the entrance and narrow the space towards the cross thus directing the movement to the inside.

Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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The deep roof shades the space underneath while the wind passes through the hut in summer.

By using the on site firewood in the garden and granting it a new use, an unusual space emerges just a few steps outside the house providing a shelter for contemplation and prayer away from daily life.


Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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Wooden Hut
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