The basis of this seemingly new building is an existing single-family house of a GDR type from the 1960s. Through radical conversions, extensions and additions it was transformed into a new and contemporary residential building.
Still, the building retains its defining “roots”. These traces of the past can only be seen at second glance though. Based on the existing structures, the new concept includes elements of the former building while also fulfilling the requirements of a contemporary, tailor-made home for a family of four. The new house responds both to the existing property and to the surrounding buildings in its scale. All additional volumes are built as naturally renewable wooden constructions, some of which are visible inside.

Building project: House on a base | Conversion and extension of a DDR type house, Markkleeberg
Client: Private
Completion: 2020
Photographer: Bertram Bölkow