Heavily influenced by the stark landscape and beautiful wooden buildings of their home region in Austria’s Bregenz Forest, Innauer-Matt Architekten’s principal architects strive to design spaces that “live through their atmosphere and have a long-lasting formal and social validity.”
The push and pull between traditional structural form and modern minimalist styling is evident in Innauer-Matt Architekten’s most recent creation, House in Tschengla. Named for its location in the Tschengla region of the Austrian municipality of Bürserberg, House in Tschengla is an amazing second home that gives its owners a welcome mountain retreat from the hustle and bustle of their daily lives in the Western Austrian town of Feldkirch.
Resting on a high plateau and surrounded by alpine flora, this property offers breathtaking views of the Bregenz Forest Mountains. The outlines of the home are an unmistakable reference to the traditions that have governed alpine farmhouse construction for generations, guiding the creation of a simple but well-structured wooden building with a solid plinth and a gable that looks straight into the valley.