Old Sawmill

Maintaining the almost sober character of a purely commercial building was fundamentally important during the renovation - the rustic charm of the former sawmill could not be lost. The wooden skeleton was exposed, cleaned, structurally and thermally upgraded and finally provided with the typical wood cladding for the Rhine Valley.

In order to maintain the open feeling of the space and to create direct communication, kitchen, archive and meeting were bundled up into one furniture peice in the middle of the spacious structure. Spruce floorboards are just as much a reminiscence of past use as the old band saw, that has been preserved as a sculpture. “We were even able to reuse the old roller door from the delivery area, which has now been glazed,” enthuses architect Mark Falger about the careful handling of the material.