Example 03
Hotel in the Altes Hospiz St. Gotthard Pass, CH 2010 Architects: Miller & Maranta, Basel Quintus Miller, Paola Maranta, Jean-Luc von Aarburg Assistants: Nils-Holger Haury (Project manager), Mirjam Imgrüth, Sabine Pöschk Structural engineer: Conzett Bronzini Gartmann, Chur
Since the 13th century, travellers, pilgrims and traders have found shelter in the Altes Hospiz hostel at the St. Gotthard Pass, situated at an altitude of over 2,000 metres. Repeatedly destroyed by war, fire and avalanches, the originally heterogeneous building has now been extended with an additional storey under a new lead roof with several dormers cut into it to light the renovated hotel rooms. The architects kept the facades and chapel adjoining it to the north in their original forms, removing only a recent addition, while almost completely renewing the Hospiz’s interior structure. Solid interior walls and ceilings were built on the lower two storeys. A timber frame structure above them inside the old quarried stone facade provides adequate insulation and supports the new timber raftered ceiling and roof structure. Between the wooden studs are horizontal planks – a traditional form of construction in the Uri Canton. A concrete band set on the first floor masonry secures the coping and absorbs the thrust from the new roof structure. Areas of new and old plastering merge seamlessly in the facade, while the new casement windows in the added storeys cite the restored elements below.
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