Detail of the project ed. 2020

INNAUER MATT – MOUN­TAIN CHAPEL

Design­er	Sven Matt
Loca­tion	Wirm­bo­den, Schnep­fau, 6882
Design Team	Sven Matt, Markus Innauer, Tobias Franz
Year	2016
Pho­to credits	Copy­right Hold­er iden­ti­fied in the file Names IMA_Bergkapelle Wirm­bo­den 01,02,03,04,05,07,08,09: © Adolf Bereuter IMA_Bergkapelle Wirm­bo­den 05: © IMA IMA_Bergkapelle Wirm­bo­den 10: © Petra Steiner

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Project descrip­tion

For 32 years there was a lit­tle chapel at Wirm­bo­den, but in 2012, the chapel and sev­er­al huts were destroyed by an avalanche. While it was clear from the begin­ning that the huts would be rebuilt, it was more chal­leng­ing to find a con­sen­sus on the con­struc­tion of a new chapel. With the client being a col­lec­tive of farm­ers, each with their own, dif­fer­ing opin­ion, the dif­fi­cul­ties were not so much of archi­tec­tur­al but rather of inter­per­son­al nature. Find­ing a solu­tion that would make every­one hap­py seemed impos­si­ble in the beginning. 

So what we see now at Wirm­bo­den is a sym­bol for the col­lec­tive spir­it of this very diverse group of peo­ple. It was them who nego­ti­at­ed, con­ceived, planned, and even­tu­al­ly built this chapel over the course of three years – that’s 6 months for every square meter of floor space in the build­ing. Today, the moun­tain chapel com­ple­ments the ensem­ble of alpine huts most nat­u­ral­ly; it became the place where neigh­bours meet casu­al­ly, where gath­er­ings and cel­e­bra­tions are held, where peo­ple come to take a moment and pray.

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Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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