From a terrazzo factory to an architectural space in the Kleiner Lautertal in Blaustein – Kontorhaus:

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, high-quality “Ulm white” was mined in the valley “Kleines Lautertal”. In the industrial age, a sorting and processing facility was built for the production of terrazzo. After the deposits of the high-quality stone were extracted in the 1990s, the site was dismantled and the stone quarry was renaturalized.

Two buildings remained in the middle of the valley: the administration building with the blasting foreman’s apartment from the 1920s, known as the “Kontorhaus”, and the building for sorting and processing the stone material.

On a net area of 675m², an industrial wasteland has been transformed into a space for architecture with 35 workplaces, meeting and social rooms, a library, flexible communication areas, a space for building architectural models and a workshop.

The architects Braunger Wörtz chose tables and chairs from the schmidinger möbelbau collection. Both table Sennhaus and chair Lorena were manufactured in ash solid wood.