Metzler-Holz KG – Storage Warehouse, Bezau

Metzler-Holz KG - Storage Hall, Bezau
Builder-Owner
Metzler-Holz KG, Schwarzach
Location
Bezau
Completion
1995
Projectfacts
n.b.ar. 1.800,00 m², GFA 1.900,00 m²,
GBV 19.800,00 m³

What is more obvious a solution than building a warehouse for timber, from timber?

The sawmill and timber trading company needed a 30 x 60 meter, pillar-free hall for the storage of dried timber, as well as for the air drying of various products.

With the requirement to use solid timber for the construction as much as possible, the idea came for ​​to use fish-belly girders with a solid top chord, as well as diagonals of crossed 30 mm bar boards, and a glued bottom chord developed as a drawstring. These beams lie on clamped steel columns. The purlins were coupled, with about 1.5 meters overlapping on the 5 meter grid.

Arranged in the construction level, glass band (clear glass with aluminium profiles clamped on timber supports) forms a slight raised end of the massive structure. The underlying form is natural as the entire building, and fits the base area in an open horizontal form-work.

Metzler-Holz KG - Storage Hall, Bezau
Metzler-Holz KG - Storage Hall, Bezau
Metzler-Holz KG - Storage Hall, Bezau
Metzler-Holz KG - Storage Hall, Bezau

Projectdetails

Project support
Technical planning
Structural Engineering
DI Ingo Gehrer, Höchst
Awards
Holzbaupreis Vorarlberg
1998
Publikationen
Sklad dreva v Bezau
Z-031ARCH o architektúre a inej kultúre , marec 2001, S. 22-232001
Lagerhalle in Bezau
Z-092Informationsdienst Holz, Reihe 1, Teil 8, S. 182001
Copyrights
Text
Hermann Kaufmann + Partner ZT GmbH, Englisch: Bronwen Rolls
Photography
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