In the Italian town of Brescia, the company Rubner Objektbau GmbH, functioning as the general contractor, has built an apartment complex with appealing architecture consisting of timber. Four housing complexes with a total of 72 housing units were constructed in a minimal amount of time. For the Lombard Institute for Residential Buildings (ALER), this was the first project carried out in wood.
An extraordinary project was born when the architectural office of bergmeister-wolf designed a new workshop for wood carving art in Val Gardena, South Tyrol.
As the triangulated facade could be used only partially for load application, the building represented a great challenge for the responsible timber construction engineer. But the Italian Dlubal Software customer Schrentewein & Partner mastered the task by primarily using the building's inside parts for transferring loads.