Homeowners’ desire for renewable energy does not stop at old buildings. In Wasserburg, a client wants to work with the authorities to find a solution that reconciles both.
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Matthias Köpf
How much energy can be gained up here can be felt through the soles of your shoes on a sunny summer day like this. If you don’t want to get hot feet, you shouldn’t stand on the same spot for too long on this roof in Wasserburg am Inn. Helmut Grundner looks at 160 square meters of green sheet metal, a flat gable, easily accessible if you don’t let the tinny popping scare you. All around: gray sheet metal, brown sheet metal, red bricks, dark bricks, the full program from 200 years of roofing. Only wooden shingles like in the old days can no longer be seen, but when the Wasserburgers took them off their roofs, there was no monument protection for a long time. Today, however, monument protection could become a real problem for Helmut Grundner. After all, the roofscape is “our fifth facade,” says Mechtild Herrmann, who, as Wasserburg city architect, has to pay very close attention to monument protection and has meanwhile also climbed through the narrow hatch onto Grundner’s roof. Up here, however, it shouldn’t be about problems. The solution will soon be here.