Beauty comes from the inside

The village eastwards of Vienna, close enough to be an attractive place for people wanting a house with a garden, yet preferring to stay in the vicinity of a big city.

A young family decided to come back to Glitzendorf, after years in spent in big cities and abroad, despite those rather uninviting surroundings, for the kid to grow up to their families.

They bought a triangular plot between the construction site and rather unappealing villas, determined to build a house and call it their home – and found a planner, who fulfilled their wishes.

An optimally lit room is not only one fulfilling the norms; there is hardly any beauty without some poetry.

The clients' idea of living in a barn resonated with Andreas Etzelstorfer's childhood memories. He recalls jumping onto a pile of fragrant hay, sun rays visible in the dusty air.

In old barns and attics sometimes single ceramic roof tiles were replaced with glass ones, resulting in an everchanging pattern of sunny dots in the interior. He wished to bring in this magic into the project.