Empty architecture studio in a former brick factory in the evening, tall steel-framed windows, a long timber table covered with small wooden building models, warm low sun across red brick walls

A small studio in Leipzig-Plagwitz

Four architects, one long table, one material. We design timber homes, attic conversions and small multi-family houses in cross-laminated timber.

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

Four architects, led by Jana Krüger

Jana Krüger founded Holzwerk Architektur and leads it. The studio has stayed at four people on purpose: small enough that everyone knows every project, large enough to carry a multi-family house through planning and onto site.

One table
We work around a single table of timber models. A design is cut in wood and passed around before it is ever rendered.
The same faces
The architects you meet in the first conversation are the ones who draw your building and stand on site when the panels arrive.
Three kinds of work
Timber homes, attic conversions, small multi-family houses. We keep to them because that is where we know every joint.

Close-up of a corner where two solid cross-laminated timber wall panels meet, the layered panel edge visible, raking side light across the spruce grain

Why we build in cross-laminated timber

A cross-laminated panel is boards of spruce glued in layers, each layer turned ninety degrees to the last. The result is a solid sheet of wood that carries load in both directions: wall, floor and roof from one material.

The panels are cut in the workshop, openings included, and arrive on site ready to stand. A storey goes up in days and stays dry while it does. That matters most on a tight plot, and on top of an old house whose walls should not carry more than they must.

And then the wood stays. We leave the surface visible wherever the building allows, so the structure you paid for is also the room you live in.

From the first conversation to the last panel

Every project takes the same route through the studio. Here it is, in the order it happens.

We listen at the table

You bring the plot, the roof or the old house, and what you want from it. We ask how you live, what the budget can carry and what the site allows.

In the studio, Plagwitz

We build it small

The design starts as a wooden model you can pick up and turn in the light. Drawings follow the model, through to the planning application.

Model first, plans second

The panels are cut

Once the plans are fixed, every wall, floor and roof panel is drawn to the millimetre and cut in the workshop, with windows and doors already in place.

Decisions made before the site opens

The house stands up

The panels arrive in building order and are lifted into place. We are on site for the assembly, and we stay until the keys change hands.

On your plot

City canal in Leipzig-Plagwitz lined with red and yellow brick industrial buildings in early evening light, still water reflecting the facades

Meet us at the table

The studio sits in the canal quarter, among the old brick factories. Tell us about your plot, your roof or your house, and we will set a time to talk it through over the models.

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