Two conjoined homes quietly anchor their plot in Söcking, near Lake Starnberg, standing as an inventive response to suburban densification. Houses with One Pillar, designed by Buero Wagner, presents a contemporary take on multigenerational living while honoring the site’s modest past—a single 1950s house once occupied the lot. Now, without expanding the original footprint, two nearly identical gabled volumes rise from a lush context, their forms wrapped in black charred timber that...