Angelika Kauffmann Museum
Placed on a rising slope, west of the village centre, two small museums have been established in a historic and well-kept "Wälderhaus" (house in the woods). The former living area serves as a local museum and is characterized by the typical bowery anteroom, which the people of Bregenzerwald call "Schopf" (porch) and which, though unheated, is protected against wind and weather by windows and ceiling-mounted drop down shutters. It is a type of room often used by Dietrich | Untertrifaller.
The new Angelika Kauffmann museum occupies the space of the former domestic wing and is accessible via the barn floor. A wide sliding wall can be pushed aside to open the house. The foyer, which reaches up to the roof, lies behind a glass wall, giving the impression as if the gate to the barn floor were open. The doors, i.e. the part that can be opened, on the other hand, are made of solid wood and are closed. The fresh pale yellow silver fir wood of the walls and furniture contrasts with the age-darkened log wall that remained unpaneled. New beams secure the roof load and consist of steel sections to ensure differentiation from the old carpentry. The floor, rough sawn fir planks, is as soft as a carpet.
Client Municipality Schwarzenberg
Location A-6867 Schwarzenberg, Brand 34
Architecture Dietrich | Untertrifaller
Project management R. Grups, H. Greber
Construction 2006-2007
Floor space 315 m2
Volume 2,350 m3
Building costs 0.8 million Euro
Partner Site management Dragaschnig, Schwarzenberg / Structural engineering: Merz Kaufmann, Dornbirn / Building
services Klimaplan, Hohenems / Electrical engineering: Lingg, Schoppernau / Building physics: Weithas, Hard / Timber
construction Berchthold, Schwarzenberg
