Alte Substanz mit sichtbaren Spuren erhält neuen minimalistischen Schliff

The two architects have committed to the principle of clearly showing what is existing in a building and what is new. "I am thrilled by the foreign destination I am exposed to when I encounter an old building. I can't just design anything. The house gives me a framework, changes my mind as the building develops, reveals treasures and impasses - that’s what I love to work with," says Nicola Petereit. In one of the former paint shop rooms, there are centimetre-thick layers of paint on the walls and countless traces of paint on the floor. For decades, brushes and rollers were rolled out here. The architects have created immensely aesthetic and ideally valuable relics, which they believe are extremely worth preserving. So everything old remained rough, with visible traces, everything new became smooth, square, flush and minimalistic.