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Much Untertrifaller

Architecture · Building in existing stock · Alpine building — Bregenz · German / English / French
Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten — Bregenz / Wien / St. Gallen / Paris / Munich
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His core focus: hotel architecture that grows while the house keeps running — conversion, extension and refurbishment in stages, without closing the hotel or losing its character.

Much Untertrifaller is an architect and co-founder of Dietrich | Untertrifaller in Bregenz (1994). His focus: hotel architecture in existing stock — conversion, extension and refurbishment in stages, while the house keeps running.

Problems Much solves

Architecture

Conversion budget is drifting before construction starts

Stock analysis before costing, phased planning against budget creep, cost ownership per phase

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Architecture

Building permit blocked by heritage authority

Read the stock before filing, permit strategy in an alpine context, dialogue with the authority

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Architecture

Our build is slipping on time and budget

Cut construction phases, steer while running, intervene before costs run away

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Architecture

Our building services are dated and costly to run

Assess services in existing stock, refurbish in stages, trace consumption and faults

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Architecture

We don't fully know the state of our building fabric

Survey the building, read defects on site, priorities over gut feeling

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How he works

01

Stock analysis

What the building can bear, what it costs and what it is worth — before deciding on new build or refurbishment.

02

Phased planning

Cut construction phases so operation, budget and season fit together.

03

Multi-year accompaniment

Treat a house as a process, not a one-off project.

Experience

  • 1994 co-founded Dietrich | Untertrifaller in Bregenz with Helmut Dietrich; today led with Dominik Philipp and Patrick Stremler, around 100 architects across five offices
  • Rote Wand, Zug am Arlberg: conversion, extension and refurbishment 2007–2018 with ongoing modernisation phases — 58 rooms and suites, restaurant, indoor pool with spa, Altes Schualhus, staff house with 29 apartments
  • Silvrettahaus, Bielerhöhe (1992) — an early reference point for contemporary alpine building
  • Pioneering role in modern timber construction, focus on building in existing stock

Practice areas

Stock assessment and feasibilityConversion and extension during operationRefurbishment and building services in existing stockDelivering build projects on time and budgetPermit feasibility in an alpine context

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