House for a Goldsmith / Christoph Wagner Architekten

A farmhouse in the Mark Brandenburg, half an hour north of Berlin, was to become the client's new home and workplace. The agricultural use of the house was probably abandoned in the 1950s and the stable and workshop rooms were converted into four flats. The client decided to keep the remaining old tenant in the house and not alter this flat. The remaining areas were carefully remodeled and converted into living and working spaces by Christoph Wagner architects with Wenke Schladitz and reoriented towards the surrounding garden. A flat with 140 square meters was created on two floors. It was important to the client and the architects to preserve the character of the house with its traces and layers of time. A complete renovation was not desired. For example, cracks were only repaired where structurally necessary and not for design reasons. Large areas of the building were left untouched.