Huegellandhalle - a new hall in the Hillcountry
A large umbrella for a place
Pürstl Langmaier architects found the most convincing solution: they closed themselves off from the over-molded Tyrolean chalet inventory.
All balconies, additions and gabled roof was stripped. The L-shaped building has been purified to a mud colored Cube with a perforated facade, which acts almost timeless abstract. As an earthy Cornerstone the house forms a quasi calm clip the White Hall - the sleek frames the square.
Sovereign includes her expansive canopy the stock. As a wing, it spreads over the newly grown parlor and then glides gently uphill through the glazed foyer. Like a funnel passes it on to the backstage area to auszuschwingen after a dynamic turnaround in almost ten meters above the art gallery of the hall.
At the site of the former abattoir of St. Margarethen an der Raab/Styria praised the community organized a competition for the construction of a conference hall that should be connected to the local tavern.
The winning project of puerstl langmaier architekten solved all functions in a convincing manner.
The white hall binds to the abstract Cube of the existing Building.. The dynamic roof embraces the space and fits perfectly into the hill country.
St. Margarethen an der Raab is a pretty place in the hills of Eastern Styria with about 4,000 inhabitants
In 2007 an open, single-stage competition was announced.
A hall with foyer, serving and side rooms, cloakroom and an office should be designed. Under the stage, the mobile platforms of the community should be stored.
The required spectrum was broad.
The hall with its 500 seats should fit for classical, pop and rock concerts, marriages, and deaths, banquets, disco, cinema, theater, lectures and much more.
Acoustically, the hall had so much to afford.
functional they should be so attached to the apartments and could be shared in place still held open-air events. The apartments had to be unimpaired and separately deducible from the noise.
A large umbrella for a place
Pürstl Langmaier architects found the most convincing solution: they closed themselves off from the over-molded Tyrolean chalet inventory.
All balconies, additions and gabled roof was stripped. The L-shaped building has been purified to a mud colored Cube with a perforated facade, which acts almost timeless abstract. As an earthy Cornerstone the house forms a quasi calm clip the White Hall - the sleek frames the square.
Sovereign includes her expansive canopy the stock. As a wing, it spreads over the newly grown parlor and then glides gently uphill through the glazed foyer. Like a funnel passes it on to the backstage area to auszuschwingen after a dynamic turnaround in almost ten meters above the art gallery of the hall.
"We wanted the Hall position it so that you can record on all around," says architect Bernd Pürstl. "Important for us was the canopy that creates a connection to the hill country. Walls and roof should form a crystalline structure. "They are covered with white, slightly shimmering fiber cement panels. The concise, streamlined new acts like an artificial hill and is the landmark in place: its canopy forms a covered square in front of inn and foyer whose broom finish brushed concrete intones a dialogue with the opposite market place, which continues under the dazzling soffit and in the foyer. This creates a common, public space, which is also suitable for outdoor events. Partly parked under the stage mobile platforms are to be transported through gates to the square.
The state of the stock was bad, the walls damp, the juists rotten. A modern professional kitchen were moved to the rear north side, which allows an easy subcontracting, creates an autonomous entrance and also solves the sound problem. The twelve apartments were awarded immediately, the dining room on the ground floor is oriented to the place.
Building history is written on the deep window frames with its exposed wooden lintels.
The Foyer moves into the middle of the old building and the hall and opens wide south with a steel and glass facade.
Three wood-framed double doors leading into the hall. It’s about 20 meters long, 15 meters wide and almost entirely of wood. "This fits well with the culture of a Styrian community," says Bernd Pürstl.
It has nothing in common with rustic buildings.
Cladded in white, with partly perforated acoustic panels, the hall looks airy and light . It looks like an instrument. The ceiling rises above the art gallery on almost nine meters in height and it is covered by laminated woodbeams, of which the panels are suspended. The side walls of wood sandwich panels (Cross-laminated timber CLT ) are covered thereby. The fan-like structure gives the hall something special and prevent flutter echoes. It rather carries the sound from the stage into the auditorium without electroacoustic gain (important for language). The faces and the stage on which a brass band with 60 men has easy place, are made of reinforced concrete: that ensures mass and is important for no sound penetrates to the outside.
Coal, earth, snow:
Even the simple outbuilding behind the hall is worth a mention: a simple, externally clad with black fiber cement panels, with interior OSB construction of spruce on a concrete slab.
He completes the ensemble of white hall and earthy ingredients. With so much storage space in the back and so much public space in front of him.
Here clubs, wedding parties and communities of all kinds have their versatility, performative platform in the market town.
