Three Levels, One Horizon

Some apartments are inhabited. This one seems rather to do something to you – you enter it, and the idea of an apartment in the common sense dissolves noticeably quickly.

221 Quadratmeter, spread over three levels – ground floor, garden level and a generous attic –, complemented by 153 Quadratmeter terrace area, a small garden and an elevator that connects the floors without depriving them of their independence. One could call that generosity, but the term falls short: it is not about area as an end in itself, but about a spatial disposition in which light takes the actual lead. Located in Altmünster on the Traunsee, in a quiet, slightly elevated position above the lake, with the Traunstein in view – a backdrop one could get used to, if it did not stubbornly refuse to become ordinary.

Already the entrance area makes it clear that nothing has been left to chance here. Carpentry work that truly deserves the name, generous storage areas, a path that leads directly from the double garage to the private passenger lift and from there effortlessly up to every floor. What appears as an architectural detail is actually a statement: this apartment is designed to be barrier-free – not as a subsequent concession, but as an integral part of its planning. Comfort that does not need to be explained because it simply works.

Inside, this claim continues without sliding into the decorative. Gaggenau appliances, air conditioning, a smart home system, underfloor heating with heat pump – technology that holds back rather than imposes itself. A separate guest room with its own shower and WC, a generous owner area with a dressing room, bedroom and bathroom, plus a second bathroom and two further WCs – enough space to live together without having to be together all the time. An open fireplace provides a calm counterpoint to the technology in the living area.

Notable are the transitions to the outside. Generous glazing, terraces on several levels, the lake almost casually always in view, surrounded by the silence of the residential area. In summer the boundary between inside and outside loses its significance anyway.

A double garage with its own e-charging station as well as additional parking spaces are also included – the practical questions have been thought through, but they recede behind the actual offering.

This property is aimed at those who seek spaciousness without burdening themselves with a house. At people with a sense for contemporary architecture, for unobtrusive technology – and for those few seconds in the morning that one simply devotes to the view out of the window.

Some things can be measured in square metres. The rest only begins where the numbers stop explaining something.

Der Energieausweis ist in Erstellung.

Der Vermittler ist als Doppelmakler tätig.