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The farm has been in the family for generations and was in a very critical condition after years of neglect.
The family wanted to restore the farm and convert it into a private apartment on the upper floor and a B&B with four rooms on the ground floor.

The client wanted to leave the existing structure as unchanged as possible, but had to strike a balance with financial feasibility.
In order to finance the costly renovation, tax breaks and subsidies had to be used, particularly for the energy-efficient renovation, so that the urban planning requirements, including ensemble protection, and above all the high requirements for insulation work and building services engineering, had to be met.

The façades had to be preserved or restored in accordance with historical photographs. After a detailed analysis of the interior, it was decided that it would be more sensible and economical to renovate rather than restore – the wooden beam ceilings in particular were largely dilapidated, meaning that preservation and structural improvement would have been extremely costly. In addition, the inconsistent structural system with a roof construction that did not transfer the forces downwards via a logical and sensible support structure, but rather led to extreme deflection of the old ceilings at offset points. The ceilings on the ground floor also had a slope of around 25-30 cm, presumably because two different structures had been connected to each other a long time ago.

The building was therefore gutted on the two upper floors and new wooden beam ceilings were installed. Nevertheless, the interior layout was designed to be analogous to the historical one, with a central access corridor for the spacious rooms arranged along the sides of the façades, in order to reflect the existing situation – which is also continued with the use of wood as a material.
As the window openings no longer provided sufficient parapet heights to the north after the installation of the now horizontal ceilings, discreet bars were integrated in front of the windows to comply with safety regulations. 

The modern building services were housed in the basement area by excavating the soil.
The roof truss was preserved in its entirety, creating a particularly charming and unusual attic space that reflects the building's architectural history.

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