Gsottbauer architektur.werkstatt: Musikprobelokal | Schützenheim | Veranstaltungsplatz | Natters - best architects 14

Gsottbauer architektur.werkstatt

Musikprobelokal | Schützenheim | Veranstaltungsplatz | Natters

best architects 14

public buildings

Place

Natters/Österreich

Photos

Birgit Köll

Description

Heritage-listed Waidburg Castle, a solitary structure that today serves as Natters city hall, now looks onto a largely horizontal structure that, despite its distinctive form, looks as if it had always been there. At the heart of the design is a passepartout-like roofed gallery that frames the club house and the festival square with its stage as if they were gems and at the same time functions as a landscape viewing platform. Reminiscences of gazebo architecture are by all means intentional. The trees – especially the 100-year old chestnut trees – are integrated into the design, providing shade and an atmospherically dense outdoor space. The music rehearsal building is a timber structure lined inside with white fir panelling attuned to the acoustic requirements and outside with patinated copper.