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  • Two-family house Matino

Two-family house Matino

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2023 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

An improvement of the existing property was made out of the need to create living space for six instead of two residents. Instead of setting out for new shores, the second generation decided to
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  • Treehouses Noszvaj vol.2

Treehouses Noszvaj vol.2

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Hungary, Wood, Wooden houses|

Two types of recreation accommodations were constructed near Noszvaj, a quiet town in the North of Hungary. In the first stage, a set of wooden treehouses were built on the site, then the project was
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  • House with Douglas fir columns

House with Douglas fir columns

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Czech Republic, Wood, Wooden houses|

"The House with Douglas fir columns" is situated in a magical place close to a birch grove. The owners lived on the plot for many years in the second house. This low – energy L
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  • Tanne massiv – Neues Leben beim Binderbauer

Tanne massiv – Neues Leben beim Binderbauer

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

What makes this project one-of-a-kind?It is the ecological idea, which is practised down to the smallest detail. The project is built entirely of glue-free wood. Starting with the wooden floor panel, the wooden walls till the
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  • Courage to the gap, Innsbruck

Courage to the gap, Innsbruck

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

Building plots are scarce in the Tyrol and almost impossible to find in the center of Innsbruck. Four friends wanted to live together as neighbors and combine their strengths to realize a living opportunity. After
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  • Villa Sjöviken, Kemiö island

Villa Sjöviken, Kemiö island

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Finland, Wood, Wooden houses|

Villa Sjöviken is a one - family house on the Kemiö island in Southern Finland. The steep site inspired to design a building on several levels adjusted to the fragile archipelago nature. The site is
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  • Cabin, Rheintal

Cabin, Rheintal

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

Despite their apparent simplicity, small "cabins" have always been a welcome design challenge, where scale and materiality had to be resolved to get the maximum benefit from minimal spaces. Situated on a steep slope, this
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  • PEPA

PEPA

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Italy, Wood, Wooden houses|

With a strong body of solid wood and powered by a technological heart, Pepa is a portable luminaire that marries traditional craft with modern technology. Pepa was inspired by a kitchen tool: the pepper grinder.
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  • Bytovy Dom Drotárska, Bratislava

Bytovy Dom Drotárska, Bratislava

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Slovakia, Wood, Wooden houses|

The main concept was to create a scale of the building which would fit into a complex urban environment. This transition between the volumes of the surrounding buildings was achieved by the "optical illusion of
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  • House at the owl forest, Kremstal

House at the owl forest, Kremstal

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

A simple, clear wooden house on the hillside at the calm edge of the owl forest. The outskirts of the residential area of the village end here and this new object shapes this transition between
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  • MuMA Hut, Sat Bătrân

MuMA Hut, Sat Bătrân

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Romania, Wood, Wooden houses|

MuMA Hut is a “tiny house” built with voluntaries in an orchard in the Old Village of Armenis in Romania, inviting guests who want to experience nature both outside and inside, with an audacious window
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  • A House for Modest Pleasures, Izlake

A House for Modest Pleasures, Izlake

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Grand Prix, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Slovenia, Wood, Wooden houses|

He is an engineer and she is a psychologist, a no-nonsense pair with two toddlers. They form a focused client-team, always immersed and diligent in stating briefs and reading documents, plans and specifications. The
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  • Haus L, Elsbethen

Haus L, Elsbethen

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

Effortlessness, privacy, an open and bright atmosphere as well as a flowing transition between inside and outside were the wishes laid out by the owners. The chosen specific typology "house with outbuilding and canopied
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  • Pařezová chaloupka / Log cabin, Orlicke mountains

Pařezová chaloupka / Log cabin, Orlicke mountains

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Czech Republic, Wood, Wooden houses|

Log cabin originated as a house without technology, a detox from modern society ... a rest from synthetic materials and useless information. The building is constructed in the Orlicke mountains on the site of an
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  • Ebenthalerstrasse, Klagenfurt

Ebenthalerstrasse, Klagenfurt

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

In the Ebenthaler Strasse project, 21 apartments were built with a total of 1,505m3 of residential space. The buildings do not have a cellar, instead, the cellar substitute rooms are on the ground floor
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  • Cottage at Vranov Dam inspired by ship cabin

Cottage at Vranov Dam inspired by ship cabin

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Czech Republic, Wood, Wooden houses|

At the beginning there was a legacy-the investor acquired a small cottage on the bank of the Vranovská přehrada from his grandfather. He approached Prodesi / Domesi with a specific assignment - he wanted
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  • House Absdorf

House Absdorf

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

The project is a positive example of inner village densification instead of building on unsealed greenland. It suits into the long existing historic structure of the village and is therefore an adequate addition to
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  • Pro-tò-ti-po 1:1, Valtournenche (AO)

Pro-tò-ti-po 1:1, Valtournenche (AO)

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Italy, Wood, Wooden houses|

The project defines the characteristics of a typical "house", consisting of living/dining-room, bedroom, restroom and loft. The minimum size allows to temporarily accommodate four people. Construction system is made of two typical wood construction
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  • Fohlenhof Ebbs, Tirol

Fohlenhof Ebbs, Tirol

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

The project includes a riding hall, stables, staff accommodation, main office and a carriage and riding museum. The entire buildings were essentially reduced to 2 materials, wood and concrete, and used very originally according to
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  • Collective housing Maierhof, Bludenz

Collective housing Maierhof, Bludenz

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Grand Prix, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

67 subsidized flats and 1 communal space around a communal courtyard Eight houses in wood hybrid construction form an ensemble around a green inner courtyard. With the existing listed building, the different dimensions and
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  • Casa a Collina, Collina di Forni Avoltri

Casa a Collina, Collina di Forni Avoltri

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Italy, Wood, Wooden houses|

Collina, in the municipality of Forni Avoltri in the Carnic Alps, is the highest point of a narrow valley that ends against an imposing mountain. It is 1300 metres above sea level and has a
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  • Tree House, Hrusice

Tree House, Hrusice

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Czech Republic, Wood, Wooden houses|

The structure is located on a private property - a sheep pasture - just outside of Prague. It consists of two independently anchored, wooden platforms. A transparent cladding is suspended from the ceiling on
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  • 1+1+1=1

1+1+1=1

Austria, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

The property is embedded in a small-scale structure of detached houses in the west of Austria. The building consists of three volumes that are shifted towards each other to form a complex structure that
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  • House K: on the back of the mountain

House K: on the back of the mountain

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

In the far north of the Bregenzerwald lies the small community of Sulzberg on the ridge of the mountain. We built a house on a steep slope in the middle of a densely built-up
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  • Edifice Cabin, New York

Edifice Cabin, New York

BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, USA, Wood, Wooden houses|

The edifice, is a modest 500 square foot cedar cabin located in Fremont, New York. Approximately two hours northwest of New York City nestled in the woods of the western Catskills mountains. The edifice
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  • Ernas Haus Student apartments and micro – living at Winderhof

Ernas Haus Student apartments and micro – living at Winderhof

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

Ernas Haus offers comfortable co-living for students looking to live in a small space that is close by to the University of Applied Sciences, whilst getting to know the area and its people. Students
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  • Reininghaus Quartier 7, Graz

Reininghaus Quartier 7, Graz

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

Graz-Reininghaus Quartier 7 consists of 4 housing estates of multistorey wooden buildings with quiet green courtyards. Arranged around a central square, they contain over 200 subsidised flats, a children’s daycare centre and commercial facilities.
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  • Hotel Ladurner Vellau, Lagundo

Hotel Ladurner Vellau, Lagundo

City and community, Italy, Wood, Wooden houses|

The house of the '70s was no longer up to date and had to be rebuilt. Complete wood construction was built upon the concrete floor level. The small hotel in the high mountains surrounded
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  • Courtyard House Sebi, Niederndorf

Courtyard House Sebi, Niederndorf

Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

The striking wooden structure stands on the edge of a closely parceled out new building area in Sebi. Due to a subtle hillside location through the relatively small corner property, it is easily accessible via
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  • Lakeside Chalet, Lake Millstatt

Lakeside Chalet, Lake Millstatt

Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2022 – Winner, BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2022 – Winner, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2022 – Winner, Interior, Residential architecture, Residential interior, Wood, Wooden houses|

The main idea was to place the Chalet on the highest point to let it float above everything else, tucked into a lush landscape. Therefore the lower floor was built in reinforced concrete to
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