Wood rehabilitation
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Project • By Atelier Krauss Architecture • Exhibition Centres
New Buddenbrookhaus museum, Lübeck
The Buddenbrookhaus was the real home of the Mann family. In the novel, it also represents the literary reflection of the residence of the Buddenbrook family.The complex overlapping of fiction and reality must be made tangible in the rehabilitation and new construction of the museum which thus becomes a place of life and narrative history.The “Beletage” of the novel becomes a scenographic object of fiction and stimulation of the imagination. A literary café occupies the “Diele” of the ground floor and becomes a public space conducive to events, meetings and exchange views. Under a pointed roof, the research library creates an inspiring place for discussion.The characteristic Lubeck urban tissue composed of a v... More
Project • By lioz arquitetura • Private Houses
4 Houses in Graça
How to transform four dwellings of the nineteenth century into dwellings of the twenty-first century? In this building of the mid-nineteenth century, comprising four residential fractions, adjoining another identical building, we were able to perceive the essence from an ancient housing system. The smaller scale apartments indicate that all the constituent elements of the original typology were considered as the minimum essential to inhabit. The relevance of the kitchen space, becomes perceptible, through the presence and position of the chimney; the absence of sanitary facilities as autonomous rooms, adapted over time in the balconies and kitchens; the importance of modesty and privacy demarcated by the doors that separated rooms... More