The ensemble of the Village House, the existing community center and church - what may seem unspectacular in advance - should prove a convincing spatial dialogue experiment how a previously not existing village center can function in the future and contextual relations can be sustainable. The aim was to reactivate a traditional construction, without stumbling into the depths of a superficial, sentimental architecture. The subtlety of the intervention may be revealed only at second glance.

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Architects: Bernardo Bader

Location: 6215 Steinberg am Rofan, Austria

Area: 460.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Günter Richard Wett
Client: Municipality Steinberg am Rofan, Austria

© Günter Richard Wett

 The ensemble of the Village House, the existing community center and church - what may seem unspectacular in advance - should prove a convincing spatial dialogue experiment how a previously not existing village center can function in the future and contextual relations can be sustainable. The aim was to reactivate a traditional construction, without stumbling into the depths of a superficial, sentimental architecture. The subtlety of the intervention may be revealed only at second glance.

© Günter Richard Wett

Territorial context and setting in the settlement...