This noble, modern wood-aluminum conservatory extension serves as a new dining room and is very generously open to the main house. The existing two-winged window was removed for the generous passage and the parapet was broken away down to the bottom. This measure not only created a large passage, but the existing living room and the new winter garden-dining room now form a large cohesive living unit that is very open and flooded with light. A great new feeling of space has emerged and not only the actual winter garden is fun, but the completely new and very spacious room structure in the kitchen, living room and dining room area.

The cubature of the winter garden is called a saddled monopitch roof or just a gable roof.

Why didn't we stay under the roof with the winter garden at the back and built a "normal" pent roof?

Quite simply: because that would have been much too low! A very important point in the construction of a winter garden is the connection height to the house. If it is too low, the winter garden cannot function as a living room because a pleasant room climate cannot develop at any time of the year. If the winter garden is too low at the back, too little space is built in, the roof pushes up and brings both the heat in summer and the cold in winter too quickly and too close to the residents. Such a winter garden is just not fun. You also have to consider that the winter garden has a large opening to the house and thus has a very strong influence on the climate in the adjacent rooms. So the winter garden has to have a neat three-dimensional structure so that it brings joy to its residents over the long term.

The winter garden professionals from Steinbach therefore removed the roof overhang, installed a bearing groove and built the winter garden in such a way that it creates a great feeling of space and can be used as living space at any time of the year.

The left side of the winter garden, seen from the inside, was equipped with a massive wall as a privacy screen from the street. Important: The wall must neither go up to the top nor to the front, so that a pleasant three-dimensional feeling of space remains. And of course so that a ventilation window can be integrated into the skylight.

The interior of the winter garden is made of fine cherry wood (veneer-coated glulam) with very slim and highly insulating profiles. Outside, it is provided with weather-resistant aluminum cladding: the so-called Steinbach system!

At the front left and right you can see the rather popular Steinbach corners and of course the sloping corner posts. The dimmable LED starry sky is also built into the rafters and beautifully illuminates the winter garden in the evening. A barrier-free sliding door in the right side section serves as a connection to the terrace. Two deep fresh air windows (at the bottom front in the Steinbach corners) as well as two inclined tilting skylights in the sides ensure sufficient ventilation of the winter garden.

An external awning in the roof and a multi-part facade shading system (external venetian blind system) in each of the two floor-to-ceiling facades ensure optimal sun protection. All ventilation and shading motors are regulated by an automatic control system that is integrated in the popular Steinbach energy column. The dimmers for the LED starry sky lighting are also built into the energy column.

The flat, barrier-free (!) Threshold of the winter garden naturally also has the stainless steel edge protection inside in the transition area to the floor, so that precisely this sensitive edge does not wear out and change its appearance over time. Be it through kicks, cleaning or other mechanical loads.