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House on the House in Austria by Looping Architecture

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House on the house or Forum Limbach is an old farm house in Limbach im Burgenland, Austria designed by Looping Architecture. The farmyard was expanded by an architecturally exciting chapter; the annex serves as a discussion forum and venue. On top sits the upper storey as โ€œhouse on the houseโ€ with the principalโ€™s private rooms. The new building, fitted into the historically grown farmyard structure, closes the rural square edifice and at the same time opens up the previously enclosed inner yard. This apparently contradictory double function is made possible by the buildingโ€™s clever horizontal bisection. The โ€œhouse on the houseโ€, entirely clad in a red polyurethane skin, faces east-west, the necessary rotation out of the original propertyโ€™s axes emphasizes that it is a newcomer in the conglomerate. It is accessed via a self-supporting stairway quoting the ladders which belong to the farmyard image. In the farmyardโ€™s biography, the annex project marks a visionary new beginning without overwriting the propertyโ€™s naturalness.

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