An article in "100 German Houses", issue no. 2016/17 with photos by Simone Rosenberg and Matthias Kestel

It is usually the houses that the architects can tell a story about. The "Recyclinghaus" near Munich is an exception. Here, it is the materials that set the tone. Normally, the wood from which the extension is almost entirely made would only have been used as firewood, explain Braun and Krötsch, the architects responsible for the construction. Piece by piece, the materials, most of which came from a demolished building nearby, were [...]

Stefan Krötsch is a junior professor of tectonics in timber construction at the department of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and runs the Braun Krötsch architecture firm in Munich with his partner. (http://braunkroetsch.de)

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