Andreas Wenning

Andreas Wenning (* 1965) is a German architect specializing in tree houses . He lives and works in Bremen .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Wenning completed an architecture degree in Bremen. For his thesis he designed a communication center on the cliffs of Dover . Wenning initially worked in various architecture firms in Germany and Australia. In 2003 he founded his own company and in the same year constructed his first tree house on the Plendelhof in Bassum near Bremen. This was followed by drafts and realizations of tree house projects in Europe , Brazil , Argentina and the USA , as well as lectures, teaching and publications.

job

Andreas Wenning has been developing designs and realizations for tree houses for eleven years now. From the smallest project - a four square meter children's tree house in Stuttgart - to its largest object to date, a 50 m² conference tree house in Belgium . Wenning is now internationally known and has currently completed around 50 tree house projects worldwide, including hotel buildings in Switzerland , Florida , Argentina and France . In Germany, Andreas Wenning is currently working with the Berlin entrepreneur Kolja Stegemann on the project "The Urban Treehouse" (the urban tree house). On Stegemann's family property in Berlin-Zehlendorf , on Quermatenweg, two modern tree houses are to be built by the end of April 2014. The construction costs should amount to approx. 100,000 euros.

Stegemann wants to rent the tree houses to tourists on the one hand (approx. 140 euros / day each), and on the other hand, through a cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin (TU), make them available to architecture students for study purposes. The two tree houses are to be erected at a height of four meters. They should stand on approximately 4 m² steel girder plinths that are clad with wood and can lead gas, electricity and water pipes inside. The houses themselves are to have approx. 25 m² each, with interior fittings made of solid spruce wood, terraces made of larch wood and an aluminum facade.

Buildings and drafts (incomplete)

• Resort Baumgeflüster , Germany, Bad Zwischenahn
• Coldwater , USA, Florida
• Almke Boy Scout House Germany, Wolfsburg
• Hotel Entre Cielos , Argentina, Mendoza
• Treehouse Louisa , Germany, Frankfurt

Web links

• “Whirlpool in the treetops. The architect Andreas Wenning and his tree houses " Report at" Metropolis "on arte (September 2009)
• "Luxury tree houses: Longing for Villa Kunterbunt" Article by Spiegel Online (November 2012)

literature

• “Tree houses. New architecture in the trees "Andreas Wenning, ISBN 978-3-86922-171-7 (December 2011), ISBN 978-3-938666-85-2 (September 2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In Berlin-Zehlendorf, tree houses for living are being built Article in the Berliner Morgenpost of March 4, 2014