Holzwerk Architektur

Every project, coloured by what we added

The list reads like the legend on a permit drawing. Grey is the city that was already standing, yellow is what came off, red is the timber we put in. Three kinds of work, each with its own key.

Sample entries: the rows below show how the project list reads. The studio's own projects, places and statuses replace them.

Schematic only: one attic storey on a corner block, one CLT house in a gap plot, one timber home on a garden lot where an old shed came down.
Grey
existing
Yellow
removed
Red
new
A new house on its own plot, drawn against the houses already beside it.

Timber homes

Houses for one family on a garden lot in and around Leipzig: walls and floors in cross-laminated timber, cladding left to weather, rooms planned around the plot's light rather than a catalogue floor plan.

Two-storey house clad in vertical untreated larch boards standing on a green garden plot near Leipzig, seen from the lawn on an overcast day, older plastered houses beside it

Timber homes4 sample entries

  • House on a former allotmentLeipzig-KnautkleebergTwo storeys, CLT walls, larch claddingBuilt
  • Garden house after the shedLeipzig-HolzhausenOne-and-a-half storeys, old outbuilding removedBuilt
  • House on a narrow lotMarkkleebergThree storeys on a 7-metre frontageOn site
  • House for two generationsTauchaMain house and annex in CLTIn design
The tired roof comes off in yellow; a full timber storey goes on in red. The block below stays as it is.

Attic conversions

New flats on top of Leipzig's existing apartment blocks. Cross-laminated timber is light enough that the old walls carry it, and the panels arrive cut to size, so the building below can stay lived in while the roof changes.

Converted attic room with exposed cross-laminated timber walls and a sloped timber ceiling, daylight falling in from a dormer window onto a plain wooden floor

Attic conversions4 sample entries

  • Corner block by the canalLeipzig-PlagwitzTwo flats in a new attic storeyBuilt
  • Gründerzeit block, rear roofLeipzig-LindenauOne maisonette, three dormersBuilt
  • Attic over a corner shopLeipzig-ConnewitzStorey and roof terrace, old roof removedOn site
  • Two attics, one stairLeipzig-GohlisPair of flats sharing a new timber stairIn design
A gap in the street closed with a timber house of several flats.

Small multi-family houses in CLT

Three to five storeys, a handful of flats, built from cross-laminated timber panels on the gap plots and corner lots that Leipzig's streets still have.

The panels go up in days rather than months, which matters on a narrow plot between neighbours who stay put.

Cut edge of a cross-laminated timber panel showing pale spruce layers glued crosswise, close up in daylight

Small multi-family houses in CLT3 sample entries

  • Infill on a gap plotLeipzig-PlagwitzFive storeys, nine flatsBuilt
  • Courtyard house behind a blockLeipzig-SchleußigThree storeys, four flats, garage removedOn site
  • Corner lot for a building groupLeipzig-ReudnitzFour storeys, six flatsIn design

BuiltOn siteIn design

Have a roof or a gap plot in mind?

Send us the address, a photo from the street and what you would like to add. We will tell you what could stay grey, what might turn yellow and how much red the plot can take.

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