Long wooden worktable in a former brick factory studio, small timber building models and rolled drawings on it, low evening sun through tall steel-framed windows, no people

Tell us what you want to build

A plot, a roof or a site for a few flats. Write us a few lines and one of the four architects answers.

Enquiry, in your own words

Tell us where the building will stand, which of the three it is — timber home, attic conversion or small multi-family house — and how far along you are.

Plans, photographs of the roof or a land-register extract travel better by email.

studio@holzwerk-architektur.de

What happens after you write

Four short stages between your first lines and a decision to design together. None of them commits you to anything.

An architect reads it

Your enquiry goes to the studio table in Plagwitz, not to a front desk. One of the four of us takes it and writes back with the questions a drawing would ask: orientation, neighbours, what the existing structure is made of.

We meet where it will stand

On the plot, under the old roof or on the street the new house will face. An hour on site settles more than a week of messages, and you see how we look at a place.

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

We say what timber can do there

Cross-laminated timber suits most of what we are asked for, though not all of it. After the visit we tell you plainly whether the idea, the site and the material fit, and what would have to change if they do not.

You get a proposal in writing

A scope for the first design phase: what we would draw, what it answers and what it costs. You decide with that in your hand, in your own time.

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

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

Four architects, no front desk

Jana Krüger leads the studio, and the studio is the four of us. Whoever answers your enquiry is someone who draws, details and stands on the building site, so the first conversation is already about your building.

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

Find us in Plagwitz

The studio sits in a former brick factory in the canal quarter of Leipzig-Plagwitz, among the workshops and warehouses the district was built on. Visits are by appointment; we send the entrance and the door with the confirmation.

By trainS-Bahn to Leipzig-Plagwitz station, then a short walk east into the quarter.
By bicycle or on footAlong the towpath of the Karl-Heine-Kanal, which runs through the district from the city side.
With models and samplesBring what you have. The table is long and we would rather see a rough sketch than a finished brief.

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