The Cooking-Academy is part of the event and seminar area of the wellness and gourment hotel Bad Schörgau and sees itself as a platform to gain an insight into the local gourmet cuisine.
The central element is the big cooking block, a monolith of grey-green local porphyry, almost 5 metres long and with a gross weight of 22,000 kg. Only the countertop has been burnished, the other surfaces show the original breakage of the stone.
The cooking area is connected to a large hall with space for about 100 guests. A spiral staircase leads to the seminar room with a large roof terrace.
The room's pattern is based on the element of the circle. The circle is the most stable geometrical shape, it conveys security and protection. The overlaps of the circles result in the special ceiling structure due to their star-shaped three-dimensional formulations. The outer facade is based on the same geometric basis, but without the "stars". The interiors are completely lined with hand-limed spruce and hemp.
