The house is part of the main concept of the Gartenstraße in Eichgraben. The compact design of the house benefits of the slope and contains despite strict high regularities three floors. Due to projections covered spaces are being designed. The construction consists of massive timber elements. The building is cooled respectively heated by geothermal energy.
After the birth of their first daughter, the young family were taken by the idea of a single-family house in the countryside. in the wienerwald they found a little house in need of rehabilitation with a large garden. prospective possibilities of enlargement were already investigated before buying the property.the lean budget required a high portion of own capital in order to take the first steps in renovating the old building and undertake thermal sanitation.upon completion of sanitation, the second child had already been born, and thoughts regarding an annexe became more concrete. also, the grandmother’s wish for a granny flat should be taken into consideration. building regulations left little leeway regarding building density and height. in order to accommodate the entire spatial programme, developing a two-storey structure was mandatory.
The house under the oaks is a low budget passive house concept developed for an Austrian family. With a minimum footprint and a wide outstretching wooden box on six columns it offers a living area of about 100 m2 on a plot of 913m2. The whole structure was done in prefabricated timber with ecological wood wool insulation of up to 60 cm.