Design: The 200-year-old listed Brendlehaus chalet with barn has been preserved with moderate intervention. The farmhouse part of the house, a locally typical beamed structure on a solid brick basement, and the barn, a plank-roofed standing structure, have been converted into residential units. The farmhouse has been given wood-fibre insulation on the inside and a new entrance, including a room with plumbing, instead of the former front porch. The structure of the farmhouse has remained unchanged. A new building has replaced the former cowshed next to the barn. The renovation gave the sparingly lit barn space everything it lacked to make it usable as a housing unit: light, views, a kitchen, two bathrooms and three bedrooms. The structure of the central space in the barn was thus able to be preserved.
Wood: The choice of materials followed the existing situation; as far as possible, existing materials and elements were retained. The existing box windows were reinforced for modern needs with new seals. The roof was re-covered with the existing brick tiles, before adding an insulation layer to the supporting beams. The barn has been insulated between the beams; the exterior is clad in rough sawn pine boards and the interior in three layers of wood panels.
