.Max Otto Zitzelsberger's Elevated Wood Construction in Bavaria Engineer as well as lecturer Max Otto Zitzelsberger presents the Knowing Residence, an investigation venture focused on wood building as well as ecological education and learning, settled at the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz, an al fresco gallery in Bavaria. This task, cultivated in partnership along with Zitzelsberger's architecture trainees coming from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, replaces a primary structure that was shed to fire, complementing the existing structures of a past four-sided ranch. The new lightweight establishment, a basic timber-frame building, takes advantage of timber sourced sustainably coming from neighboring forests, showing a devotion to environment-friendly building and construction practices.all pictures by Sebastian Schels From Stone to Wood: The Development of the Understanding House Situated on the site of a past four-sided ranch, the brand new building through Max Otto Zitzelsberger and also his pupils switches out the primary hacienda that was actually damaged through fire. Constructed as an easy timber-frame property, it takes advantage of timber sustainably harvested from the nearby forest. The wood was dropped in winter, meticulously cut on-site with a mobile phone saw, and also gently dried for over a year. By utilizing materials occassionaly, the German engineer and also his team was able to decrease the cross-sections of the load-bearing hardwoods as a result of the top quality of the timber. The building is elevated on a handful of cement foundation backs, reducing using concrete. This altitude performs not only as a maintainable building and construction selection yet also as an architectural declaration. While the brand new building drafts creativity coming from the type of the initial hacienda, it deliberately ranges the historical concept at key points, developing a contemporary reinterpretation of the lost establishment. The authentic hacienda, created of hefty stone as well as block, grew over generations, along with several expansions steadily affecting its own look. In contrast, the brand-new structure takes an extra intellectual technique. While the original building rested firmly on the ground, the replacement is lightweight, elevated, and hovers above the site. Its own floor plan, completely reimagined for its own new function as a seminar room for environmental education and learning, mirrors a crystal clear variation coming from the past. Although the quirky expansions of the past property are resembled in the brand new style, they are certainly not imitated, yet reinterpreted.the brand-new light-weight property forms as a simple timber-frame developing an 'Anti-Project' at Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz The Discovering Residence at the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz stands as a counter-project to the typical prestige properties of German al fresco galleries, which usually savour excessive use of components, information, as well as area. In several ways, it can be seen as an 'anti-project,' daunting conventional thoughts of development. There is no preset schedule-- building happens as materials and capacities become available, making the method an important portion of the end result. This method turns down linearity and finality, embracing a powerful and also liquid procedure where every phase is both an end result as well as a more advanced action. Encouraged by the word collections of Herta Mu00fcller, the task reflects a recycling of ideas, checking out alternative futures and the variation of probabilities, without any ultimate 'completed' condition. the job settles at the Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz, an outdoor museum in Bavariathe job takes advantage of wood sourced sustainably coming from nearby foreststhe substitute rises, and also hovers above the website.