No. 3 - Winterausgabe 2019_20, Salzburg

“The classic floor plan
– dining room, living
room, kitchen –
disappears and it all
melts into one big
room.”
“ You don’t build for
eternity anymore,
you build for the
now.”
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WORDRAP
This project is my personal dream:
The Haus am See.
Design can
… never limit me in my daily life.
the customer put so much trust in us
during the first meeting that he said:
you take over now! He didn’t even show
up to the building discussions. And that
huge amount of trust was a credit to
myself and my team.
L.L. You design restaurants, too. The
times where it was just about the food
are long past. What does a successful
restaurant need to look like today?
M.E. The guests alwas have many possibilities
to choose from and that makes
them more demanding. Which means it
is our job to create an experience that
will make them want to come back. It’s
about a certain level of comfort and cosiness,
down-to-earth and sophisticated,
that they know from their own four walls and that will
make them feel at home. There are three points that are particularly
important in a restaurant: The level of comfort
while seated at the table, the table culture – what do the table
cloth or the napkins feel like? - and, finally, the lighting.
Without good lighting the best concept will not work.
The last design object I bought:
My city bike.
My own four walls must be ...
cosy and comfortable.
Salzburg means to me:
Culture, arts, and food.
L.L. Never was beautiful living as important as it is today.
How have the clients’ demands towards their own home
changed?
M.E. Clients are becoming more and more flexible and
open. The classic floor plan – dining room, living room,
kitchen – disappears and it all melts into one big room. You
get fewer and fewer requests for these areas to be separate,
instead you get more cases where work life is integrated into
people’s homes. Outdoor and indoor merges, outdoor areas
are becoming more important because as a result of climate
change we can spend time out of doors between April and
October. Technology is also changing rapidly, as soon as one
smart home system has been installed there’s a new one on
the market. But you also see a bit of a downgrade there,
people increasingly focus on the essentials. And you don’t
build for eternity anymore, you build for the now.