On the edge of the Ostermundigenberg, the car-free wooden housing estate "Oberfeld Ostermundigen" was built with around 110 apartments. Close to nature and yet quickly in the center, the settlement combines the advantages of the urban lifestyle with rural idyll.
In the heart of the municipality of Köniz, in a sunny location close to the center, a residential and commercial building has been realized on Neuhausplatz. Not only the facade but also the supporting structure is made of wood.
"Andermatt Swiss Alps" is a year-round vacation destination being built in the middle of the Swiss Alps. The project includes six hotels in the 4- and 5-star range, about 500 apartments in 42 buildings, 25 exclusive chalets.
The four-story wooden building stands on the eastern outskirts of Bern. Thanks to recesses and inwardly offset balconies, small areas are created that make the object with dimensions of 37 x 16 x 12 m appear smaller and break up the silhouette.
It is unusual for ten associations in one industry to join forces to create a joint training center. This is exactly what the automotive associations did in Bern Wankdorf on Wölflistrasse. They built a new building as a training and further education center for the automotive industry in Switzerland. Timbatec was commissioned for the demanding planning of these halls.
In a preferred location, the building offers space for seven exclusive apartments. The modern timber construction meets the MINERGIE-ECO standard. The high requirements for eco-balance and energy consumption are thus fulfilled.
The two symmetrically arranged halls are located on Freiburgstrasse in Oberwangen. The cubes with the dimensions 50x26x12 m shape the image of the landscape next to the highway.
A new storage hall was designed for the acids and alkalis to be stored by Thommen Furler AG, which can cope with the high demands of aggressive chemicals.
The development in the Minergie-P Eco standard is designed as a zero-energy housing estate and consists of 2 multi-family houses and 7 terraced single-family houses. The entire settlement is built from the first floor in timber construction.
New storage resources were needed at the Jungheinrich company site in Hirschthal. To achieve this, a warehouse with a large forecourt roof in wood was planned.
The multipurpose hall is located directly next to the Preisegg school complex, in a rural setting. Due to the good cooperation on the project "Eishalle Brünnli", the engineers C+S from Hasle and Timbatec from Thun were again commissioned.
According to the initial plans, the roof structure of the triple gymnasium was to be realized as a shed roof with six large sheds in steel construction. After other structural variants, also in wood, had been examined in detail, the client decided in favor of a flat roof in wood construction.
A roof for the previously open ice rink was to be built over the existing civil defense facility. The building lines allowed hardly any leeway in the design of the roof shape. Limitations had to be observed not only in the ground plan, but also in the section.
The executed project, a 3-fold gymnasium with combined steel-wood trusses, emerged from an architectural competition in 2002. With the orientation of the shed roof to the south, it is possible to directly use solar energy passively.