Office Building BauMayr

New Building
1998-2001
Location: Waldzell
Client: BauMayr
www.baumayr.at


The office building of the construction company Bau Mayr is located on a narrow strip of land between the family´s residential house and the high street of the village. Due to the funnel-shaped premises the architect´s design comprises a three-storey building whose east façade – a massive wall – separates the building and the traffic; whereas the west façade relates closely to the opposite façade of the family residential building.
Reception area and offices are located on the ground floor. The first and the second floor are spanned by a wooden beam ceiling which is supported by only a few pillars on the middle floor. Interior wall partitions shape the single offices. They are carried out in lightweight construction and pitched on the finished floor construction. These separating walls serve as furniture which can be used from the offices and the corridor likewise. Each of the seven offices on the west façade provides a protected workplace with a pleasant atmosphere. Orthogonal recesses in the façade ensure appropriate lighting within the rooms and transform the corridor situated in the east into a complex spatial structure.
The second floor of the building is confined by a circumferential ribbon window separated by sash bars. A terrace is situated above the main entrance in the south. In order to comply with the local building regulations concerning the maximum height of the building, it was necessary to keep the copper sheet roof low. Thus its hipped roof pulled down far under the edge of the upper storey supports the weather protection for the untreated wooden window frames.