The opening of the ten new starry sky chalets in the Ikuna nature resort in Natternbach is planned for Easter. Ikuna owner Albert Schmidbauer awarded the contract for the chalet village with a construction volume of around three million euros to the two founders of LibertydotHome: the two Innviertler Philipp Hüttl and Markus Hörmanseder have dedicated themselves entirely to timber construction and sustainability.
The shape of the new holiday apartments in the nature adventure park for families was derived from a log. They developed the concept together with the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, where they both studied civil engineering. “It was important to us not to seal the floor. For the 15 meter high building, we anchored screw foundations one and a half to three meters deep in the ground and proved that this also works with this dimension,” says Philipp Hüttl.
The 30-year-old emphasizes that the project also wants to show that chalet villages, which are increasingly being criticized in Alpine regions in particular, can be built more sustainably. A highlight is the glass roof, from the bed holidaymakers can look at the starry sky.
The two 30-year-olds have four employees themselves and cooperate with the construction specialist Hörmanseder in Haag am Hausruck, where the wooden modules are prefabricated like in a Lego set. Spruce wood and larch wood for the outside area are used. Eight starry sky chalets have already been set up, two barrier-free ones will follow in the next few weeks.
Incidentally, the first micro house they built during their studies in front of their university in Vienna serves as the construction site container. At that time, Red Bull also became aware of the Upper Austrians. Their living modules made of wood and mobile hotel rooms are used for sporting events such as Formula 1 races, Moto GP or festivals such as the Woodstock of brass bands, but this business has been on the back burner for the past two years due to the pandemic. “We hope that many events will be possible again this year,” says Hüttl, who, together with Hörmanseder, has also designed affordable housing for the homeless. For this they received the Patent State Prize.
Source: Nachrichten
