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The lightweight lake house

Figure: BetonBild/Peters Fotodesign

A small studio becomes a remarkable sculpture to live in by using lightweight concrete integrally colored in red shade and a distinctive floor plan – even including everything you need

Figure: BetonBild/Peters Fotodesign

Figure: BetonBild/Peters Fotodesign

Shell equals finished building. The integrally colored lightweight concrete also provides the interior with an interesting wall structure

Figure: BetonBild/Peters Fotodesign

In the German municipality Diessen am Ammersee, the architects Axel Tilch and Gisela Drexler have built a residential house that is suitable for many purposes: from a studio to a guest house to a retirement home. In the early 1980s, the architects already built a lightweight concrete house for themselves and the family. Thus it suggested itself to use the well-proven construction method again for the erection of a “pavilion” at the other end of the garden. The annex covering 50 m² can be used for a lot of purposes: “Two rooms, a bathroom unit, no loft and no basement for superfluous stuff. A...

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