Building, upgrading, elaborating – even the region’s ground-breaking modern architecture of the 1960s.

Together with the church and municipal office, this building from 1968 forms a trio which defines the center of this town in Bregenzerwald. Designed by Jakob Albrecht, the structure incorporates a school, kindergarten and multi-purpose hall under a functionally effective composition of staggered saddle and single-pitched roofs. The roof arrangement and the asymmetrically distributed openings disperse the incoming daylight. As a result of the clear use of materials and the modular wood windows, the structured volume integrates itself harmoniously into the local building fabric without direct appropriation of the language of the surrounding farmsteads. The building has been technically and functionally upgraded to the state of the art. The building envelope – roof, facade and windows – and the mechanical systems have been retrofitted and the interior fittings, including the furniture, have been replaced. The upper floor, which houses the school, was extended on the north side, providing space for a new workshop as well as for the sanitary area and dressing room of the gymnasium and event space. The previous rhythm of white, heavyweight transverse walls and dark timber glazed fronts has been transformed into the duality of a flush-sheathed, cantilevered timber volume with a simple basement made of white walls and floor-to-ceiling windows. text: Otto Kapfinger "Hermann Kaufmann Wood Works"