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Tell us about the house, the attic or the plot you have in mind, and what you would like to add to it in timber.

What helps us read your plot The studio in Plagwitz

Grey: the street as it stands
Red: your enquiry, the first thing we add

What happens after you write

Every enquiry goes through the same order a permit drawing does: first what stands, then what goes, then what we add.

We read and reply
One of the four architects reads your message and answers personally, with the questions we need settled before anyone draws a line.
We look at what stands
A first conversation at the studio or on site. For an attic that means the roof timbers, the stairwell and the neighbours on either side; for a plot, the street it belongs to.
We mark what has to go
Old roof covering, a chimney stack, a shed on the plot: we note what would be removed and what that means for structure and planning law.
We sketch what is new
A first idea of the timber you would add, and a written proposal for the next stage of work so you can decide in your own time.

What helps us read your plot

None of this is required to start. Send what you have; we will ask for the rest.

Where is it?

The street address or the parcel. In Leipzig the local development plan and the surrounding buildings shape what can be added long before the design does, so the location tells us more than anything else.

What stands there today?

Phone photos from the street, the courtyard and inside the attic are enough. Old plans from the building files help even when they are decades out of date.

What would you like to add?

A family home on an empty plot, one more storey under the roof, a small multi-family house in cross-laminated timber. Rough sizes and how many people will live there are plenty.

Who decides?

For attic conversions in apartment buildings, the owners' association usually has a say. Tell us if it is you alone, a family, a building group or an association, so we know who needs to see the first sketch.

What budget and timing do you have in mind?

A range is fine. It lets us say early whether the idea fits, rather than drawing something that has to be taken apart later.

Sketch it in our colours

If you want to draw your idea before we meet, use the permit code we work in. Colour the house as it is in grey, cross out in yellow what you would take away, and fill in red what you would build.

Grey: existing
Yellow: removed
Red: new

The red is timber

What we add is almost always cross-laminated timber: spruce boards glued in crosswise layers, light enough to sit on an old Gründerzeit wall, prefabricated so the street sees scaffolding for weeks rather than months.

Close-up of the cut edge of a cross-laminated timber panel, pale spruce boards stacked in alternating crosswise layers, sawn surface in soft daylight — Panel edge: five layers of spruce, each turned ninety degrees to the last.

Brick industrial facade along the Karl-Heine canal in Leipzig-Plagwitz, a plain wooden door set into the red brick, water in the foreground, overcast light

The studio in Leipzig-Plagwitz

We work in Plagwitz, the old industrial quarter along the Karl-Heine canal, where brick factories have been turned into homes and workshops one floor at a time. Most of the buildings we add to are a short bike ride away.

Who you will meet: Jana Krüger and the studio's team of four architects.
Visits: By arrangement, at the studio or on your site. We send the address and directions with our reply.
Where we build: Leipzig and the surrounding region.

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