19.8.2011
S(ch)austall, Pfalz, Germany
El desafío era rediseñar un establo para ganado porcino y convertirlo en una sala de exposición. Este pequeño edificio había sido parcialmente destruido durante la 2ª Guerra Mundial. Un nuevo edificio en el mismo lugar y con el mismo volumen era imposible de construir debido a que el sitio está cerca de un camino rural. De ahí surgió la idea de "una casa en una casa". Un edificio de madera en una casa de piedra, que en ninguna parte se contacta con el edificio actual y que, sin embargo, su techo protege la parte antigua. Independiente, pero copiando la antigua fachada, como una pieza de fundición del viejo establo.
The redesign of a stable for pigs (saustall) to a showroom: s(ch)austall.
It was originally assigned to refurbish the 1780 built stable and to reorganize it as a showroom. This small building was partly destroyed during the 2nd World War, reerrected and supplemented in the course of the time. The substance was in such a bad manner, a refurbishment not eligible for financing. A new building at the same place with the same volume was impossible due to the fact that the site is to close to a countrystreet.
And then: a house in a house, a hundret times varied topic. A timber building in a stone house, nowhere in contact with the existing and nevertheless protecting the old part with its roof. Independent but with a copy of the old facade. Like a casting of the old it results in irritations in the inside, because the visitor doesen’t know why one windows sits in the bottom right corner, or another is so small. The pigs didn’t think about it. At night one gets an impression of an old wreck with a new and warm interior. Visitors have a look into the gap between wood and old wall, squat on the flor and try to have a view to the outside… they experience the building and its history, there is no longer simply a ruin… and effects to obtain with little.