House in the park

The 'House in the Park' is a symmetrically designed timber hybrid building with two entrances that lead into a large central hallway. This hallway serves as a meeting place for residents and visitors and provides access to spacious communal rooms, a kitchen, quiet rooms, a staff office, toilets and storage rooms. There are eleven flats on the three upper floors, which are accessed via the hallway. Ten flats consist of two residents' rooms with their own bathroom and shared kitchen/living room. There is also a smaller two-room flat on the first floor. A communal room with kitchen and a small office on the first floor encourage socialising, while the top floor provides space for a large shared flat.

In the 'House in the Park', a timber hybrid construction was realised for ecological reasons, with the ground floor and basement being built with precast concrete elements and sand-lime brick. The stairwells are made of reinforced concrete, while the rest of the building is predominantly made of timber. Above the ground floor, all ceilings and walls were made of cross-laminated timber by Karl Hoffmeister GmbH. The exterior walls are made of spruce plywood with 200 mm thick mineral fibre insulation. The façade structure includes fire protection measures and a diffusion-open, rear-ventilated construction. The non-load-bearing interior walls are constructed using drywall construction and integrate most of the installations.

In order to harmoniously integrate the new 'House in the Park' building into the surrounding park and the development structure of the campus, the building was given a special colour scheme. The solid ground floor is plastered and complemented with exposed aggregate concrete columns and ceramic brick slips in the entrance areas and on the terraces. The red glazed timber facade harmonises with the clinker brick façades of the listed neighbouring buildings. The facade boards were treated in the factory with KEIM Lignosil-Color in dark oxide red to avoid the need for colour application on site. Inside, the cross-laminated timber of the walls was coated with KEIM Lignosil UV-M to delay darkening and yellowing and to make cleaning easier. The stairwells were coloured, creating a harmonious design that combines ecological construction with a high quality of stay and optimal care options.