彼得祖母托建筑作品.pdf

PETER ZUMTHOR, “Idea, Concept, Design for a Hideaway in the Mountains”, a+u 2002/08 No: 383, pp: 82-91 1 Idea, Concept, Design for a Hideaway in the Mountains Peter Zumthor Visiting Tschlin, taking a holiday in Tschlin, means discovering one of the great Alpine landscapes, the Engadine: the light and the expanses of a magnificent valley deep within the Alps, where the cultures of North and South meet. The town of Tschlin typifies traditional architecture in the eastern tip of Switzerland at 1,500 meters above sea level. A beautiful village, compact in structure. A good 100 old buildings, farmhouses with adjoining barn-stables under the same roof. Engadine houses impressively built into the slopes, facing small squares and lanes, their facades decorated with Sgraffiti and paintings of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One is still impressed by the desire and ability of the peasant dwellers of old to embellish their homes, to allow public spaces to emerge, to lend their village form and identity. But Tschlin is also a mountain community undergoing change: extensive alpine farming, empty houses and barns, fewer and fewer people able to make a living in the village. Tourism that requires holiday housing and large skilifts, tourism that swallows up and changes the old farming structures: it has not yet reached the lowest, terraced village in the valley. This was intentional and in part, perhaps, accepted with resignation. It is now the will of the community to protect their architecturally intact village while also promoting sensible developments to enhance the life and work of the people. So: a small hotel is to be built here, an establishment of