Visualisierung , rendering – M9 Architekten
Architekturfoto – David Schreyer
Publikation in GA project 2014
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Thoughts on a Design – Gästehaus Weiler Kapfing
In the Ziller Valley, where tourism has strongly shaped and misshaped local appearances, the settlement of Kapfing has retained its historically attractive, small scale.
The guesthouse with its small indoor swimming pool and Finnish sauna is embedded in this setting with respect and yet recognizably as a contemporary structure.
The new buildings adhere to the scale of the surrounding structures, and the apartments adopt the typical Alpine motif of crowded buildings in a settlement, grouped parallel to the fall line of the sloping hillside.
The buildings are arranged along a coarsely structured wall that marks the old path through the hamlet.
The floor plans are split-level to follow the natural slope of the terrain.
To the south across from the entrance to each apartment is the large living room with kitchen. It is two stories high with a panorama window and spacious terrace to the front. The bedrooms are located below with a door to the outside, and directly above as a bedroom gallery.
Although grouped, each house is seen to be separate. Each has a masonry pedestal, on which stands the timber structure of the upper floors.
The indoor pool emerges as a solitaire in concrete, while maintaining the same scale as the apartments. Daylight enters into the pool area through sparingly made openings in the roof and also indirectly over the water’s surface that stretches into the outdoors. The floors are of wood, just as is the wall paneling. The room inside is a bathhouse, the perfect place to spend a cold, wintry day and to relax after winter sports.
