The artist within: from pigsty to showroom, this little historic structure is cleverly reborn.The wit and economy of thinking that informed this design pleased the judges; it is exemplified in the punning description of what has been achieved, turning a pigsty (Saustall) into a showroom (Schaustall). The tumble-down 1780 structure had seen better times, and was partly destroyed in the Second World War. It was reassembled and added to in the intervening in·ter·vene intr.v. in·ter·vened, in·ter·ven·ing, in·ter·venes 1. To come, appear, or lie between two things: You can't see the lake from there because the house intervenes. 2. period. The original intention behind the commission was to refurbish re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur the structure and upgrade it as a showroom. However, its physical condition made it difficult to finance a thorough upgrade, and a replacement building of the same size was not possible on the site, due to its proximity to a street. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The generic solution, which has a long history in architectural approaches to sensitive ruins
Ruins is a term used to describe the remains of man-made architecture: structures that were at one time complete but which have either been deliberately , was to place a 'house within a house', even if the original had been a home for pigs. But how? What should touch what? Could parts of the new structure protect the old, in the way the old walls give extra protection to the new building? The architect, for reasons of economy and logistics, placed a timber 'house', which copied the facade facade (fəsäd`), exterior face or wall of a building. The term implies ordered placement of its openings and other features and thus seems inapplicable to a wall without design. of the original building, inside the stone but without ever touching it, while the showroom roof protects the existing structure. The arbitrariness of the windows now looks fashionable, based as it is on the functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. of the pigs and/or the farmer rather than a jokey jok·ey also jok·y adj. jok·i·er, jok·i·est Characterized by joking or jokes, especially stale or clumsy jokes: jokey bumper stickers. translation of ordinariness. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Light, colour and warmth transform the building at night; visitors can pry into the gaps between the structures and wonder how it was all done. The new internal life extends the eighteenth century into the twenty-first. P. F. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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