Architect Sebastian Beham from Bairawies is implementing one of his largest projects in Bad Tölz: With the Hotel Bergeblick in Bad Tölz, he wants to push boundaries.
Bad Tölz/Dietramszell – It is not every day that a new hotel is built in Bad Tölz, as is currently the case on the Wackersbergerhöhe.
Just as remarkable: In the case of the "Bergeblick" project, not only is the investor, Johannes Tien from Wackersberg, based in the district, but also the commissioned planning office, Beham Architekten from Dietramszell.
What does the hotel order mean for the office?
Owner Sebastian Beham replies succinctly: "Everything."
Hotel Bergeblick in Bad Tölz: The shell of the building should be complete by the end of the year
As reported, the excavators rolled up on the Wackersbergerhöhe in the spring.
Everything is going according to plan on the construction site: "We're on budget and on schedule," says Sebastian Beham.
It is expected that in autumn you will be able to see how the timber construction will grow in height within a few weeks.
The shell of the building should be completed by the end of the year, and the opening of the hotel is still planned for spring 2023.
Even complaints from neighbors - as the Tölz district office confirms on request, there is currently no hearing date - cannot slow down Beham's enthusiasm.
He is delighted "that we, as a young office, were given the opportunity to do this job".
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Heart project: The Tölzer Hotel Bergeblick means “everything” to the architect, in his own words.
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The office has actually been in existence for 44 years.
Sebastian Beham is the second generation to run it.
Father Robert Beham is also in charge of construction management at the "HBB", as the planner shortens the project on the Wackersbergerhöhe.
However, the main responsibility as an architect lies with the 37-year-old current owner, who is supported by 13 employees.
Beham is pleased that investor Tien didn't ask up front, "Where are the ten hotels you've already built?"
Beham Architects: Headquarters in a wasteland between meadows and trees
You still had to find each other first.
"He walked in here and the first thing he did was bluntly tell us he didn't like our website," Beham recalls.
In the meantime, however, they have “an incredibly good relationship”.
Tien presented the idea of a place of deceleration, the redefinition of the cure as a kind of burnout prophylaxis for stressed office workers.
The owner of this hotel project is “ideally controlled”, says Beham.
Where large corporations appear as investors, costs and numbers are usually in the foreground.
That might suit an office located in a Munich high-rise.
The opposite is the case with “Beham Architects”.
The company's headquarters are in a desert.
The office is secluded between trees and meadows, the Zeller Bach ripples over the site.
Workplaces and studios are spread over several small wooden buildings reminiscent of Stadl.
If you don't know where the office is, you can easily drive past it on State Road 2072.
Architect Bekam does not want to revolutionize, but to develop further
Practically next door, in Bairawies, Beham grew up and is now living again after studying in Switzerland and a few years in Munich.
A connection to his homeland characterizes his architecture – whereby he opens up and redefines tradition.
"Our generation has seen a lot of the world," he says.
But no matter how innovative his designs may seem, he says he doesn't want to "revolutionize and polarize, but develop further."
In the case of the “Bergeblick”, the planners should have ignored some of the conventions of hotel construction.
So you have not based on the standards of a star classification.
The following applied: Demands on the materials: yes - alignment with conventional luxury expectations: no.
The client "let us really run wild," says Beham.
The first drafts were correspondingly "wild".
There were ideas to plan the hotel in a much more angled way with - as is often the case with Beham's houses - trees that practically grow through the middle of the structure.
Some things then fell victim to the economy.
Wooden scaffolding encloses the Hotel Bergeblick
The structure of the hotel is now rectangular.
However, according to the architect's intention, it should by no means look like a block.
Rather, a wooden frame surrounding the entire house will "make the silhouette of the building disappear," explains the architect.
Instead, the scaffolding focuses on the topic of wood.
There is a play of light and shadow.
"And at some point the forest grows through it." The scaffolding is, so to speak, a "buffer zone" or "interweaving point" between nature and the building.
Abolishing the boundaries between nature and architecture is an important theme in Beham's work.
The forest, for example, has a major impact on human well-being and metabolism.
At the same time, the integration of nature into his buildings fulfills a functional task, regulating the climate, for example.
"The profiteer is the human being," says Beham.
Sauna in the new hotel in Bad Tölz without the usual comfort zone
In the sauna and spa areas of the hotel, users would also feel, in a sometimes unusual way, that they were in the middle of nature - for example when it rained in a grotto through a hole in the ceiling or part of a room directly from the ground be limited.
"You won't find the usual comfort zone that you have in a spa where everything is regulated."
"Beyond the norms," says Beham, the large wooden framework around the main building moves in other respects as well.
This will “push the boundaries of timber construction architecture”.
With spruce wood, material of the officially "lowest wood class" is used.
Showing that you can do much more with "supposedly inferior wood" than burning it is "a piece of sustainability," says Beham.
Architect believes the Hotel Bergeblick is capable of great radiance
In order to make it durable over time, Beham relies on a new method, namely covering the front sides with the synthetic resin polyurethane.
Proceeding in this way does not correspond to any DIN standard, it is in a way an experiment.
Even if Beham is absolutely certain that it will work in the long term, an investor needs courage and trust to get involved.
"The fact that we can be so cheeky here is like winning the lottery," says Beham.
The hotel could also be a stroke of luck for Bad Tölz, believes Beham.
At least the architect believes that the "Bergeblick" has enormous appeal for the city.
In this respect, he also thinks it's good that Tien on the Wackersbergerhöhe does without full catering and would rather offer his guests a shuttle service to the surrounding restaurants.
"He sees the potential that Bad Tölz has." And apparently also the potential of a local architect.
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