The new Bayreuth Youth Hostel building has a star-shaped floor plan with a central foyer and three wings extending from it over two storeys. The supporting structure of the building consists of a hybrid timber-concrete construction. Concrete is predominantly used for the internal parts of the supporting structure, such as the corridor walls and ceilings. The external parts of the supporting structure, in particular the façade and roof structure, but also non-load-bearing room partition walls, are made of timber. Highly thermally insulating timber panel elements are planned for the timber walls. The targeted use of these materials results in optimum building physics with thermally insulating components without thermal bridges in the building envelope and sufficient storage mass inside the building.

The construction for the sloping and curved roof is also made of wood. For the wooden roof construction, different structural variants have been examined geometrically and mathematically. Parametrically programmed component geometries in various variants were displayed and evaluated. A construction was carried out in which the girders rest on the outside and inside of the walls or along the ridge line and roof opening on a spatial truss girder. The rafter level consists of a carrier mesh, the lower carrier panel of which is designed with parallel chords and the upper carrier panel of which follows the curved roof surface. The beam panels, which are pivoted against each other, are connected at regular intervals by V-shaped posts and create a spatial load-bearing effect.