xscape by BKK-3 Architektur

You cannot see the future – but you can build it. This house in Lower Carinthia is the result of a ten-year design and construction process (2015–2025). It understands architecture not as a fixed state, but as a learning system – open to change, technological progress and continuous optimization. Ten years of architecture as an attitude.

Located at the edge of a village and slightly elevated, the house opens towards the Carinthian Karawanks. A 14-metre panoramic window and a deeply cantilevered terrace align everyday life with landscape, light and seasons. The south-west orientation is inspired by the nearby landscape paintings of Werner Berg, whose calm light became a key reference.

The compact, sculptural building is energetically optimised and internally ordered according to Feng Shui and Vastu. A circular staircase with an open fireplace forms the spatial core, mediating between inside and outside.

Externally black, internally defined by brushed oak and white concrete, the house combines material calm with climatic intelligence. A 17 kWp photovoltaic system produces around 15.000 kWh annually. After covering heating, cooling and household use, the surplus enables approximately 34.000 kilometres of emission-free mobility per year. The house is a plus-energy building – not autarkic, but realistically connected. Without a basement, with minimal ground intervention and a highly insulated envelope, the house responds sensitively to its site.

A house that is not loud. But listens – to place, landscape and a future that may not be visible, but can be built.