we built this little weekend cottage almost on the day 20 years ago. it was used intensively, 20 summers and 20 winters.
it saw a wood-burning stove been built into itself, it saw heavy hail, it saw warm evenings and nikolaus celebrations.
and now, after these two wonderful decades, it’s owners decided to spend the weekends elsewhere, and returned the leased piece of land.
our little heroe here, the cottage, was dismatled this saturday by three guys in under three hours, and should find itself now on its way to its second life. they say its heading east-south-east, to be re-erected on some meadow on some mound with some view.
this might be, what Werner Sobek’s is talking about: Architecture Isn’t Here to Stay – Toward a Reversibility of Construction.
we sure waved it goodbye on the way to its next life.

like many of our relatives in the mammal-division, shriveling-up in the cold season is the strategy we used here too: an off-the-rack flat-pack greenhouse becomes abused as a warming cell.
by letting it swallow the seriously dimensioned radiator you can easily achieve a 10 to 24°C in under 100 seconds!

auf einem ländlichen grundstück sollte ein kostengünstiges ein-raum-haus mit koch- ess- und schlafmöglichkeit in selbst montier- und demontierbarer bauweise errichtet werden.

»gewächshaus«, ready-made serienprodukt. rahmenkonstruktion aluminium, eloxiert. verglasung: einfachverglasung esg 5mm, ca 50 % genörpelt / 50 % spiegelglas. fussbodenbelag=konstruktion: lkw-bodenplatten, brettschichtholz, phenolharzbeschichtet. fundament: punktfundament als fertigfundament, beton-gehwegplatten bis auf frosttiefe. baugrube: in handarbeit selbst erstellt. stromversorgung: 12 v photovoltaik. kochen: propangas. heizen: holzofen, gusseisen

[photo: monika ribbe, münchen]

lp 1-8
bauherr: privat
bruttogrundfläche: 9 m2
baukosten: ca 2.500,– €