Gartenwerkstatt Strubobuob garden shop

It was ultimately chance that introduced Jürgen Beer, owner of the Gartenwerkstatt Strubobuob* garden shop, to his chosen profession. After noticing how passing strangers would stop to ask about the decorative elements that graced his beautifully arranged garden, he decided to open a small sales room on the ground floor of his house. He quickly outgrew this and duly built an extension in his garden, a single-storey structure close to the road that featured a pointed saddle roof and cross gables on both longitudinal sides. The design replicates that of traditional craftsmen’s buildings in the Bregenzerwald region which, unlike farmhouses, often featured a cross-gabled roof. What makes the building unusual is its high degree of prefabrication: the entire upper floor was transported in one piece from the nearby timber construction workshop using a mobile crane.

* In the Bregenzerwald dialect, “Strubobuob” refers to both a boy with unkempt hair and the Alpine anemone in bloom. The latter inspired the name of the company as it evokes the transience of the changing seasons.

Architecture: Innauer Matt Architekten

Monday to Friday 09:00 – 12:00, 13:30 – 18:00., Saturday 09:00 – 16:00