While driving up the long way to ?Postalm", an idyllic plateau in Tennen Mountains near Salzburg, you can spot numberless unique viewpoints of the surrounding mountain chain Tennen Mountains and the massif ?Dachstein-Tauern". Located on one of those viewpoints an old homestead, abandoned for a long time, was decayed. The Alps offering the perfect requirements for great architecture what makes it remarkable that the balance and the thin line between new architecture and the surrounding scenery rarely succeeds in alpine areas. 

Courtesy of Maximilian Eisenköck

Architects: Maximilian Eisenköck Architecture

Location: Seydegg 75, 5441 Abtenau, Austria

Area: 204.0 m2

Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Courtesy of Maximilian Eisenköck

Client: Private

Structural Design: Mathias Kronreif

Total Area: Residential 204 sqm + Cellar 85 sqm + Annex 146 sqm

Courtesy of Maximilian Eisenköck

While driving up the long way to ?Postalm", an idyllic plateau in Tennen Mountains near Salzburg, you can spot numberless unique viewpoints of the surrounding mountain chain Tennen Mountains and the massif ?Dachstein-Tauern". Located on one of those viewpoints an old homestead, abandoned for a long time, was decayed. The Alps offering the perfect requirements for great architecture what makes it remarkable that the balance and the t...