Residential buildings with a modern architectural style

The Nöggel residential park – consisting of four identical five-storey apartment buildings with a hybrid design, each with seven apartments – was built in Bühler, a village in Appenzell. Blumer Lehmann was responsible for the timber construction. Our timber industry produced and installed the facades.

Hybrid Design

The residential buildings combine three storeys of solid construction with a timber attic storey that is set back from the two longitudinal edges of the building. Exterior walls, interior walls, floors and the roof structure of the attic storey, not to mention the exterior wall elements of the building shells, consist of prefabricated timber elements that were made in our factory. In addition to the spruce facade formwork, our package of services also included aluminium frames and cladding on the facade for shedding water.

Facade: Spruce formwork with visible groove

The residential development blends in well with its village surroundings, in part thanks to the closed timber facade. The spruce formwork with visible groove and fine grain finish measures 26 x 110 mm and was kiln dried in our factory and produced in N1 finger-jointed quality. Our team installed the boards alternately with and without a centre groove in a ‘trio’ and with a 9 mm rounded visible groove, fastening them visibly with suitable facade screws. The ArboGrey Terra pre-greyed surface treatment was applied once on all sides and once on the visible side, including the front edges. Both the style and the colour of the resulting facade are in keeping with the architectural design of buildings in Appenzell.