Double-height living room of a timber house with exposed solid wood walls and ceiling, low evening sun falling through a tall window and glowing warm on the back wall, gallery level on the right

We design rooms in solid timber.

Timber homes, attic conversions and small multi-family houses in cross-laminated timber, drawn in Leipzig-Plagwitz.

Compact timber house with dark vertical larch cladding at dusk, windows lit warm from inside, a loose garden of grasses in front

Timber homes

A house for one household, built from solid panels of cross-laminated timber. Outside it can be dark larch that weathers with the garden. Inside, the walls and ceilings stay as wood, so the room at the top of this page is the structure itself.

Detached and semi-detached houses, from first sketch to handover.

Attic bedroom under a sloped solid timber ceiling, a skylight open to old city rooftops in calm morning light, low bed with white linen

Attic conversions

The unused roof of an old Leipzig house becomes a room in timber. The panels are light enough for an existing building to carry, and they go up fast, so the neighbours below live with the works for weeks, not seasons.

Three-storey timber-clad apartment house with balconies standing between old red brick buildings on a quiet street in soft daylight

Small multi-family houses

A handful of flats on a gap site, three storeys in cross-laminated timber between brick neighbours. Small enough that every household gets its own balcony and its own timber ceiling, dense enough to belong on the street.

Close-up of the corner where two solid timber wall panels meet, the crosswise layers of the panel edge visible in raking light

Cross-laminated timber, left visible

Spruce boards are glued crosswise, layer on layer, into solid panels. They are cut to size in the workshop, arrive on site as whole walls and ceilings, and carry the building on their own.

We draw every joint so the panel can stay bare. Look at the edge in this corner: those layers are the wall. Nothing is clad over them and nothing is hidden behind them.

Selected projects

See all projects, each at full size

Four architects standing around a table of wooden building models in a former brick factory studio, daylight from tall windows

Four architects, one table

Holzwerk Architektur is a studio of four, led by Jana Krüger. We work in Leipzig-Plagwitz around one table of timber models, and the architect who sketches your house is the one who answers your calls until you move in.

Meet the team

City canal with still water lined by red and yellow brick industrial buildings in early evening light

Plagwitz, on the canal

Our quarter was built in brick for industry and is lived in now. It is a good place to think about what a building should still be doing in a hundred years. Come by, pick up a model, and put your hand on a panel.

Tell us what you want to build

A plot, a roof or a gap between two houses: describe it in a few lines and one of the four of us will reply in person.

Holzwerk Architektur, Leipzig-Plagwitz