translucent glass shingles wrap timber-framed museum intervention by wulf architekten

"On the corner plot where the Stone House once stood, the team at Wulf Architekten introduces the Museum Oberamteistrasse intervention to reestablish the street edge without imitating the historic fabric. The volume follows the scale and roof geometry of its neighbors, while its surface announces a glowing, contemporary intervention. Cast glass shingles, shaped like traditional beaver-tail tiles, form a continuous skin across roof and facade."

"The glass cladding shifts in tone with the light. In overcast conditions the envelope appears pale and matte, while interior illumination reveals the geometry of the timber structure behind it. This layered effect gives the project a changing presence within the tight grain of Reutlingen's old town."

"The structural design by Str-ucture centers on an exposed timber truss system that defines the Museum Oberamteistrasse's interior volume. Large triangular frames span the height of the building, bracing the envelope and supporting adjacent historic walls. Their rhythm is legible from both inside and outside, whe"

The Museum Oberamteistrasse introduces a contemporary timber structure into a medieval street in Reutlingen, restoring a sequence of medieval houses and completing the corner with a new volume on the Stone House footprint. Surviving basements and timber frames carry more than seven centuries of construction history and are treated as exhibition spaces and primary artifacts, with expressed walls and beams beneath a dramatic facade and rooftop of translucent glass shingles. Cast glass shingles shaped like beaver-tail tiles form a continuous skin across roof and facade, shifting in tone with light and revealing the timber geometry when illuminated. An exposed timber truss system defines the interior, bracing the envelope and supporting adjacent historic walls.

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