The converted barn is part of the largest four-sided farms in the village of Sermuth, a small community in the Muldental nature reserve. The design is based on the existing and unused structure of the barn. The typology of a former simple commercial building is transformed into the presence. The existing building is reduced to its basic structure and freed from extensions. What is no longer there is replaced by something new.
The design features of the former barn, such as the ground floor with an opening to the attic, the few but large facade openings with sliding doors and the use of simple materials, form the basis of the architectural redesign.

Building project: New rooms in the barn | conversion of a barn for residential and commercial use in Muldenthal, Sermuth
Client Residential: private
Commercial client: Company Mükotec
Completion: 2013
Photographer: Werner Huthmacher, Bertram Bölkow