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    The Artist Within: From Pigsty To Showroom, This Little Historic Structure Is Cleverly Reborn

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    The architect cleverly reborn a historic pigsty structure from 1780 into a showroom by placing a new timber structure inside the old stone walls, without touching the original. This protected the fragile original structure while transforming it into a functional showroom. The new structure copies the facade of the original but is clearly distinct. It extends the old building into the modern age while preserving the history for visitors to admire.

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    The architect cleverly reborn a historic pigsty structure from 1780 into a showroom by placing a new timber structure inside the old stone walls, without touching the original. This protected the fragile original structure while transforming it into a functional showroom. The new structure copies the facade of the original but is clearly distinct. It extends the old building into the modern age while preserving the history for visitors to admire.

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    THE ARTIST WITHIN


    From pigsty to showroom, this little
    historic structure is cleverly reborn.

    The wit and economy of thinking


    that informed this design pleased
    the judges; it is exemplied in
    the punning description of what
    has been achieved, turning a
    pigsty (Saustall) into a showroom
    (Schaustall). The tumble-down
    1780 structure had seen better
    times, and was partly destroyed
    in the Second World War. It
    was reassembled and added to
    in the intervening period. The
    original intention behind the
    commission was to refurbish
    the structure and upgrade it as a
    showroom. However, its physical
    condition made it difcult to
    nance a thorough upgrade, and a
    replacement building of the same

    size was not possible on the site,


    due to its proximity to a street.
    The generic solution, which
    has a long history in architectural
    approaches to sensitive ruins, was
    to place a house within a house,
    even if the original had been a
    home for pigs. But how? What
    should touch what? Could parts
    of the new structure protect
    the old, in the way the old walls
    give extra protection to the new
    building?
    The architect, for reasons of
    economy and logistics, placed a
    timber house, which copied the
    facade of the original building,
    inside the stone but without ever
    touching it, while the showroom

    roof protects the existing


    structure. The arbitrariness of the
    windows now looks fashionable,
    based as it is on the functional
    requirements of the pigs and/or
    the farmer rather than a jokey
    translation of ordinariness.
    Light, colour and warmth
    transform the building at night;
    visitors can pry into the gaps
    between the structures and
    wonder how it was all done.
    The new internal life extends
    the eighteenth century into the
    twenty-rst. P. F.

    1
    The restored building
    compact and crumbling,
    but given new life.
    2
    Inserting the new structure.
    3
    New and old elements are
    clearly legible.

    Architect
    Fischer Naumann Partnerschaft, Stuttgart
    Project team
    Stefanie Naumann, Martin Naumann

    PRIZEWINNER
    SHOWROOM , P FALZ ,
    GERMANY
    ARCHITECT
    FNP A RCHITEKTEN

    East Elevation

    ground floor plan (scale approx 1:100)

    North Elevation 1:50

    exploded isometric projection

    47 | 12

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