Story of the extermination of the ibex. Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss
06/05/2021.
[St. Leonhard] Austria
metalocus, MICHELLE ÁLVAREZ
metalocus, MICHELLE ÁLVAREZ
Swiss architects Daniela Kröss and Rainer Köberl have designed a red building "like a small castle" to celebrate the history of wild ibex in the alpine region of Pitztal, Austria.
The Ibex Museum is located in the parish of St. Leonhard, next to one of the oldest farmhouses in the valley. It sits on a site that previously housed a barn.
The Ibex Museum is located in the parish of St. Leonhard, next to one of the oldest farmhouses in the valley. It sits on a site that previously housed a barn.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Photograph by Lukas Schaller.
Site plan. Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
Ground floor. Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
First floor. Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
Second floor. Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
Third floor. Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
Section . Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
Section . Ibex Museum St.Leonhard by Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
The new building by Daniela Kröss and Rainer Köberl is designed to reference both the wooden farmhouse and the original barn, with a precast concrete facade featuring a texture that resembles timber boards. They chose a red-toned materials palette, comprising pigmented concrete and powder-coated steel, to allow the building to stand out against its green backdrop.
The two lower floors of the museum have two entrances thanks to the fact that the building fits into the hillside. On the ground floor there is a bar and a cafe while the upper floor houses the museum reception. The museum is designed so that people can easily access it and gives the essence of «climbing the mountains and seeing the mountain goat face to face».
The two lower floors of the museum have two entrances thanks to the fact that the building fits into the hillside. On the ground floor there is a bar and a cafe while the upper floor houses the museum reception. The museum is designed so that people can easily access it and gives the essence of «climbing the mountains and seeing the mountain goat face to face».
Description of project by Daniela Kröss and Rainer Köberl
In a narrow valley in the Austrian alps, it was decided to build a small museum to tell the story of the extermination and the process of reintroduction of the ibex in this region. The indoor exhibition is completed with an outdoor enclosure for seven ibexes.
Upon a wooded mountainside, you see a reddish building, somehow appearing like a small castle. It is the Ibexmuseum St.Leonhard. Right next to one of the oldest farmhouses of the valley, with nearly the same footprint of the old barn which was standing there, a towerlike building has been constructed in precast concrete, where the lower parts are quoting the wooden surface of the barn.
A striking red steel bridge connects the third floor of the tower with the slope aside, on which you reach the enclosure of the ibex.
Concept Context and Strategy.- A clear tower-like building representing a landmark has its reason in the site, which is visible from the small village below. Its compactness, the position, and the concrete façade with a formwork of rough wooden boards could be seen as a memory of the old barn.
The fact that all elements of this in- and outdoor "exhibition“ are spread on a steep slope, and should be accessible for old, physically disabled, or visitors with baby buggies, was also one of the reasons, which led to the perhaps unique solution of a vertically organized museum, where visitors walk through, from the bottom until the top and across a bridge into nature. The museum literally helps to "climb the mountains“ to see the ibex “face to face”.
Construction – Materials and Structure.- The building is constructed in reinforced concrete, with prefabricated concrete elements as the facade. The window frames and the bridge are made of steel, coloured in red, Terrazzofloors in a reddish-grey, and the stairs in oak. The restaurant is paneled in stone pine, the typical wood of this mountainous area.
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Architects
Project team
Project management.- Julian Gatterer. Landscape design.- ArGe Architekten, Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss. Exhibition design.- Himmel Studio für Design und Kommunikation. Planning.- ArGe Architekten, Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss.
Collaborators
Exhibition planning.- Rath & Winkler. Structural consultant.- Georg Pfenniger. Construction management.- R&S Planbau. Electrics.- Technisches Büro Schwienbacher. Building services.- Technisches Büro Pregenzer.
Client
Area
367 sqm.
Dates
2020.
Location
Schrofen 46, 6481 St. Leonhard im Pitztal, Austria.
Photography
Daniela Kröss
Daniela Kröss is an architect, studied architecture in Innsbruck from 2001 to 2008. She worked from 2004 to 2008 in aut. Architektur und tirol and from 2008 to 2012 worked in several architectural offices. She is now an independent architect in Innsbruck.
Rainer Köberl
Rainer Köberl is an Austrian architect. He studied architecture at the University of Innsbruck and in the city of Haifa from 1976 to 1984 . From 1986 to 1992 he was assistant to Othmar Barth at the Institute for Interior Design and Design, from 1993 to 1999 he taught as a lecturer at the institutes for urban planning, building theory and design at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Innsbruck.
From 1998 to 2002 he was a founding advisory board member and lecturer at the Bolzano Design Academy, which in 2002 merged into the newly founded Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bolzano. In 2002 and 2004 he represented Austria at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Awards.-
From 1998 to 2002 he was a founding advisory board member and lecturer at the Bolzano Design Academy, which in 2002 merged into the newly founded Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bolzano. In 2002 and 2004 he represented Austria at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Awards.-
Austrian Builder Award 2001 (for MPeis Wenns)
Prize of the State of Tyrol for New Building 2002 (for MPeis Wenns)
Austrian builder award 2005 (for the renovation of the Adambräu brewhouse)
International Architecture Prize New Building in the Alps 2006 (for MPreis Wenns)
Austrian Builder Award 2006 (for the Wiederin bookstore)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2006 (for the renovation of the Adambräu brewhouse; recognition award)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2006 (for Mpreis Hauptbahnhof; recognition award)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2008 (for Sensei Sushibar for red fish; recognition award)
South Tyrolean Art and Architecture Prize 2009 (for three-family house Dubis; 1st prize)
Award of the State of Tyrol for New Building 2010 (for MPreis in Kaufhaus Tyrol; award)
Austrian builder award 2012 (for BTV branch Mitterweg)
Austrian Builder Award 2012 (for the renovation of the Kufstein town hall)
Award of the state of Tyrol for new building, 2012 (for BTV branch Mitterweg; award)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2012 (for renovation of Kufstein Town Hall; award)
State Prize for Architecture 2012 (for renovation of Kufstein town hall)
State Prize for Architecture 2018 (for M eins shopping center)
Prize of the State of Tyrol for New Building 2002 (for MPeis Wenns)
Austrian builder award 2005 (for the renovation of the Adambräu brewhouse)
International Architecture Prize New Building in the Alps 2006 (for MPreis Wenns)
Austrian Builder Award 2006 (for the Wiederin bookstore)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2006 (for the renovation of the Adambräu brewhouse; recognition award)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2006 (for Mpreis Hauptbahnhof; recognition award)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2008 (for Sensei Sushibar for red fish; recognition award)
South Tyrolean Art and Architecture Prize 2009 (for three-family house Dubis; 1st prize)
Award of the State of Tyrol for New Building 2010 (for MPreis in Kaufhaus Tyrol; award)
Austrian builder award 2012 (for BTV branch Mitterweg)
Austrian Builder Award 2012 (for the renovation of the Kufstein town hall)
Award of the state of Tyrol for new building, 2012 (for BTV branch Mitterweg; award)
Award from the State of Tyrol for New Building 2012 (for renovation of Kufstein Town Hall; award)
State Prize for Architecture 2012 (for renovation of Kufstein town hall)
State Prize for Architecture 2018 (for M eins shopping center)
