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Status: Competition
Location: Lochau (Austria)
Organizer: Europan
Collaborators: Alicia Marco Zuriaga, Jerome Lorente Martí, Joana Plana Ortiz (Architects)
Images: Sarquella Torres
After 80 years of services, the Alte Fähre is showing some signs of exhaustion but, is it yet the time to forget about it? Or it just needs some care and a new purpose for the years to come?
The project aims for a set of exterior, interior and intermediate spaces that work symbiotically to create a physical and emotional framework for social activities.
An adaptable bioclimatic infrastructure will shelter the Alte Fähre from further deterioration setting it up for the use of the citizens, acting as an interior garden in winter and as a shaded exterior in the increasing hot summers, becoming a climate refuge. A compact wooden building will host the rest of the interior programs.
Built from green and constructed archipelagos, Lochau must rely on the multiple creeks that cross the landscape to promote the slow circulation and boost the thriving fauna and flora. Follow the sound of water.
Europan 17
Awards: Europan 17 Runner-up
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Status: Competition
Location: Lochau (Austria)
Organizer: Europan
Collaborators: Alicia Marco Zuriaga, Jerome Lorente Martí, Joana Plana Ortiz (Architects)
Images: Sarquella Torres
Awards: Europan 17 Runner-up
After 80 years of services, the Alte Fähre is showing some signs of exhaustion but, is it yet the time to forget about it? Or it just needs some care and a new purpose for the years to come?
The project aims for a set of exterior, interior and intermediate spaces that work symbiotically to create a physical and emotional framework for social activities.
An adaptable bioclimatic infrastructure will shelter the Alte Fähre from further deterioration setting it up for the use of the citizens, acting as an interior garden in winter and as a shaded exterior in the increasing hot summers, becoming a climate refuge. A compact wooden building will host the rest of the interior programs.
Built from green and constructed archipelagos, Lochau must rely on the multiple creeks that cross the landscape to promote the slow circulation and boost the thriving fauna and flora. Follow the sound of water.