The building is a three-storeyed post-and-
beam structure that is planked with diago-
nal buttressing sheathing. The outer walls
bear an exterior lime plastering on light-
weight wood wool construction slabs,
behind which lies a 12-cm-thick cellulose
insulation. The insides of the exterior walls
consist of 20-cm-thick rammed lightweight
woodchip shaving loam coated with loam
plastering. The weather-exposed gable is
provided with rear-ventilated larch wood
sheathing. The inner walls are filled in with
adobes. The brick roof and the balcony pro-
ject outward so that the southern rooms are
shadowed in summer, yet admit sunlit
in wintertime.
159 ResidencesThree-family house, Stein on the
Rhine, Switzerland
Design: Michael Nothelfer, Überlingen, Germany
Completion: 1997
Area: Basement level: 82 m^2
Ground floor: 118 m^2
Attic storey: 108 m^2