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Open ground floor of a finished timber house at dusk, solid spruce walls and ceiling left visible, a long wooden dining table, tall garden doors standing open to a dark garden, warm lamp light on the wood

Built in solid timber

Homes, attic conversions and small multi-family houses in cross-laminated timber, designed in Leipzig-Plagwitz and shown here at full size.

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Compact two-storey timber house with dark vertical larch cladding at dusk, large windows lit warmly from inside, a simple garden with long grass in front

Timber homes

A house for one household, with the structure left on show. The walls that carry the roof are the walls you live against, so the plan has to be right before the panels are cut.

  • Haus am Auwald

    Leipzig-Leutzsch, detached house

    Dark larch outside, pale spruce inside. The double-height living room turns its tall window to the floodplain forest and keeps the street side nearly closed.

  • Haus Kulkwitz

    Markranstädt, single-storey house

    One level around a small courtyard, for a couple who wanted no stairs. Every room opens to the court; the lake is a short walk beyond the hedge.

  • Gartenhaus Lindenau

    Leipzig-Lindenau, house on a rear plot

    A narrow house at the end of a long garden behind an old street building. The panels came in through the carriage passage, sized to fit it.

Empty unconverted attic of an old city building, bare dark roof rafters, dusty plank floor, a single small roof hatch letting in a shaft of daylight
Attic conversion bedroom under a sloped pale timber ceiling, a low bed below a large skylight looking out over old city rooftops and chimneys

The same roof before and after: bare rafters and dust, then a bedroom in spruce under a new skylight.

Attic conversions

Leipzig's old roofs hold a lot of unused room. Timber panels are light enough for the walls underneath and go up dry, so the neighbours below keep living there while we build.

  • Roof on Karl-Heine-Straße

    Leipzig-Plagwitz, flat under the roof

    A full floor won from a storage loft. The bedroom sits under the ridge and the bath is tucked into the eaves.

  • Roof in Schleußig

    Leipzig-Schleußig, two rooms and a terrace

    Two children's rooms and a cut-in terrace above the family's existing flat, joined by a new timber stair.

  • Roof in Connewitz

    Leipzig-Connewitz, studio flat

    One open room from gable to gable, with the old chimney kept as the only thing that isn't wood.

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

Small multi-family houses

A handful of flats on a gap in the street, built for owners who will live there or for groups building together. Stacked timber needs care with sound and fire, and we work that out in the drawing rather than hide it under plasterboard.

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

  • Haus Gießerstraße

    Leipzig-Plagwitz, three storeys

    Flats with balconies to the street and a shared garden behind, set between two brick neighbours and matching their eaves.

  • Baugruppe am Hafen

    Leipzig-Lindenau, building group

    Several households who planned their house together. The structure is the same on every floor and the flat layouts differ.

  • Hofhaus Merseburger Straße

    Leipzig-Lindenau, courtyard house

    A small house of flats in a former workshop yard, kept low so the courtyard still gets its afternoon sun.

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Tell us about the plot, the roof or the gap in the street. Jana Krüger or one of the three other architects in the studio will reply, and we'll tell you honestly whether timber suits it.

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