I enjoy seeing appropriation projects. Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architeckten is the sort of company whose projects I like looking at also. As a result this restoration of a 14th century stone chapel is something I doubly enjoy.
This Austrian firm has been working in collaboration with the local artist Wolfgang Gunther to restore and refocus the small single room chapel in to a multiple-purpose room for the popular tourist town of Schladming.
The location of this building has been of significance through out history as it is located on the church square and acts as a buffer on the threshold between the public space, the church and the century.
The restoration of the ossuary in the basement of the chapel revealed skeletons that had lay undisturbed for nearly 400 years. In line with this preservation, the ground floor of the chapel has been adapted in to an airy open cultural space.
Usually I am against 'multi-purpus' spaces but the creation of a truly useful town hall with in the existing frame work of an established community softens my cynicism toward spaces that have no prescribed purpose.
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