Holzwerk Architektur is a studio of four architects in Leipzig-Plagwitz. We design what a street adds: a timber storey on a Gründerzeit roof, a house on a gap plot, a few flats in CLT between neighbours who were there first.
Each one starts from what already stands there. The grey on the left is the street as found; the red is our part of it.
Single houses for gap plots, garden lots and the last empty corners of Leipzig's districts, in timber frame or solid cross-laminated panels, sized to the eaves and building lines of the neighbours.
On a Gründerzeit block the roof is often the last unbuilt floor. We survey the existing rafters, mark in yellow what comes out, and set a light timber storey on brick walls that were built to carry a roof, not concrete.
A handful of flats in cross-laminated timber for owner groups and small builders filling a plot between existing houses. The panels are cut off-site, so most of the building happens in a factory rather than in your street.
Grey, as found
Every attic conversion starts with the measured building: rafters, purlins, the brick walls below and what they can carry. All of it goes onto the drawing in grey before we propose anything.
Yellow, to be removed
The old roof covering, the purlins in the way, a chimney that no longer serves anything. Marked yellow, they leave the building before anything new arrives.
Red, new work
Wall and roof panels, cut to the survey, are lifted onto the existing walls. Timber is light enough to sit where a roof used to be, and it closes the house in days rather than weeks of wet work.
Red, now lived in
Exposed spruce on the walls and the slope, daylight from the dormer. The red on the permit drawing becomes a flat someone comes home to.
Sample entries to show the layout. The studio's own project list replaces them.
A small studio, on purpose. Jana Krüger leads it, and the people who measure your roof are the ones who draw the permit set and follow the build.
Plagwitz was built for factories along the water. Many of its halls now hold flats and workshops, and many of its roofs are still unbuilt. It is the kind of street we draw every day, and the one we walk to work through.
That is why the city on this site is grey. It was here first. We add to it.
Tell us the address, what stands there today and what you would like to add, a storey, a house or a few flats, and we will take a first look at the plot.
Holzwerk ArchitekturLeipzig-PlagwitzTimber homes · Attic conversions · Small CLT multi-family houses