This semi-detached house from the 1930s, in a prime location of Freising is divided into three rental units.

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In coordination with the city's redevelopment advisory board, the appearance of the semi-detached house is returned to its original condition. In order to restore the house to its old splendor, the color of the facade is restored in coordination with the redevelopment advisory board and the windows are exchanged to fit the original window division with shutters.

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The maintenance backlog requires an energetic upgrade of the shell and – naturally with a building of this age – there is a typical need for renovation and retrofitting in regard to plumbing, heating and electrical systems. In order to manage this in a sensible way while improving the living quality of the residential units, it is necessary to adapt the small-scale floor plans to modern living requirements in terms of spatial organisation: With at least one focal room (living-dining-cooking) each as well as openings to the garden or other access to the open. The bathrooms are relocated to the center of the floor plan and open up the facade to the garden.

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This requires retrofitting of the wooden beam ceiling; the main focus was on the static retrofitting in subareas and the detailed planning of the individual measures as well as the confrontation with the clearly restrictive framework conditions of building law.

It is always astonishing how little the ubiquitous call for housing and redensification can overcome bureaucratic obstacles in each individual case: For example, the BayBO, which was newly passed in December in favour of better possibilities for redensification, is changed by the city of Freising in 0.5h – in this case creating clearly noticeable restrictions that had to be overcome.

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The garden-side extension from the 1970s is gutted and extended into the garden. All new components, e.g. the extension into the garden, are planned in timber panel construction; the existing exterior walls in masonry are retrofitted, a wooden boarding emphasises the differentiation to the main structure.