Harbour me, Celia! | Peter Haimerl Architektur

Harbour me, Celia! New building of a one family house in a ruinous Bavarian Forrest Farmhouse 1. almost everything stays as it was 2. new rooms in the existence 3. open for the old: cutouts in the walls In the latest thirties most of the old farmhouses in bavarian forest were destroyed, because of ignorance and the lack of appraisal adverse to the „old stuff“, maybe also to erase the contemporary witness of rather poor time. The consequence was the deficit of architectural regional tradition - Space for the elderly can be found almost exclusively in farm-museum villages. Therefore the architectural concept intends to keep the existence - as ruinous at it might be - and not to intervene into the structure of the old farmhouse „Celia“. The rooms of the old building stay as they are, barely anything of the existence will be removed, that‘s imperative to the windows, the old plaster, the floor tiles and the other old fixtures. Other material which would be removed will be recycled to produce furniture. Boxes out of concrete are going to be placed into a few central rooms, for example the old parlor, where the new life is going to take place. Huge cutouts in the old unrenovated facade will remain visible. The new construction frames the old one, carries and protects it, the old building accommodates the new. Design Company and Designer name: Peter Haimerl. Architecture Peter Haimerl, Jutta Görlich Lothringer Str.13, 81667 München Owner: Jutta Görlich, Peter Haimerl Project location: Viechtach (Bavarian Forest), Germany Design- und Completion: January 2007- August 2008 Area-square meter: 45 m² Award: 2008, best architect award 09 in Gold 2008, Architecture Award for Concrete Buildings / Germany (Architekturpreis Beton 2008 ) 2009, Regionalpreis Niederbayern Oberpfalz 2009 2010, BDA Preis Bayern 2010 – Kategorie/Umbau, Preis der Jury