Graber Pulver mit Martina Hauser

Description

With its multi-layered programme, the timber-framed building offers guidance and shelter, serving as a venue for events and exhibitions. The primary focus is on interactions, community and the expression of Peter Roth’s sound world. These elements are reflected in the distinctive structural design and rhythmic façade of the building. The triangular plot, with a six-metre cross-slope, allowed for a maximum building area of 200 square metres. In response to these constraints, the spatial programme is vertically stacked across three storeys – an architectural triad arranged on a rhombus-shaped footprint. A reception area on the ground floor connects the entrance on Vorderen Schwendistrasse and the seminar floor above, via a spacious staircase at the southern end of the building and a skylight. An exhibition space extends across the floor above, spanned by a large pitched roof. The combination of the building’s unique form - derived from the diamond-shaped floorplan which, differing on all sides, is inscribed into the site - and the widely projecting gable roof creates a striking and memorable silhouette. The façade is structured by a horizontal, stepped layering that reflects the three-part nature of the programme.