丨德国丨BÜRO MÜHLBAUER

Architects:BÜRO MÜHLBAUER

Year:2025

Photographs:Mikael Olsson

Manufacturers:JUNG,Duravit,Vola

Category:Houses

Collaborators::Alexander Mühlbauer, Andreas Mühlbauer, Andreas Josef Mühlbauer, Lukas Westner

Landscape Architecture::Prof. Maurus Schifferli

Artist::Hans Sailer, Kirchdorf am Inn (DEU)

City:Bad Kötzting

Country:Germany

Text description provided by the architects. The House with two courtyards is located in the Bavarian Forest. The house is built without context. It is isolated from its surroundings. It can only be understood when you enter it. Two courtyards illuminate the house. - Alexander Mühlbauer

The public rooms open onto the large inner courtyard, the private rooms onto the small courtyard. The fireplace room, which can be reached via the large inner courtyard, opens with a view of the mountains of the Bavarian Forest. The house is completely cast in concrete. - Alexander Mühlbauer

Visible Appearance - The house is a concentration of three gardens, two of which only function as monumentalized landscape images and cannot be walked through. The gardens are physical manifestations of a visible world as it is, and our actions cannot make it quite different.

The gardens refer to the universe and eternity in which man, instead of acting so doggedly on the visible appearance, would try to liberate himself not only to endure any influence on us, but to expose himself enough to discover the mysterious place to discover in yourself.

However, the conditions also awaken the longing for civilization, which dares to venture somewhere else than what is measurable in its idea of space, its expression, its materiality, and its culture. The gardens make the world more unbearable because it seems that everything that prevents the viewer's gaze from discovering what remains of the whole - the universe - seems to have been avoided once the false appearances are removed. - Prof. Maurus Schifferli

Only the reduction to essential generative conditions awakens the strength and the longing to create great things. - Prof. Maurus Schifferli

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