architek[tour] tirol – guide to architecture in tyrol

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Tiroler Steinbockzentrum (Tyrolean Alpine Ibex Centre)

Schrofen 46, 6481 St. Leonhard im Pitztal, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss (2018-2020) Builder-owner: Gemeinde St. Leonhard im Pitztal Open to the public: Daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Accessibility: Approx. 15 minutes on foot from the parking lot at the municipal office TIP: Restaurant "Am Schrofen” and circular hiking trail with observation towers

Designed by Rainer Köberl and Daniela Kröss, the museum building lies like a small fortress on a steep slope. Rising above a roughly pentagonal layout is a tower-like structure that gets its conciseness from the clear form and the reduction of the design elements to reddish-colored concrete in connection with bold red steel elements. From the entrance on the ground floor, visitors are guided through two exhibition levels up to a viewing terrace, which leads over a footbridge into the ibex enclosure.

© Lukas Schaller
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Revitalization of Heinfels Castle

Panzendorf 1, 9920 Heinfels, A
Architecture: Gerhard Mitterberger (2017-2020) Builder-owner: A. Loacker Tourismus GmbH, Museumsverein Burg Heinfels Open to the public: May to October from Tuesday to Sunday (entrance fee) The Heinfels Castle Museum can be discovered on your own or experienced with a guide.

Dating back to the 13th century, the core of Heinfels Castle had fallen into disrepair over the past century. In 2007, the South Tyrolean company Loacker took over the ruin and, in cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office, the State of Tyrol and the newly founded museum association, developed a concept to make them usable for tourism and culture. In a balancing act between old and new, parts of the large castle complex were preserved and restored, while others were reconstructed and reinterpreted.

© Zita Oberwalder
03

Nature Park House

Oberlängenfeld 142, 6444 Längenfeld, A
Architecture: Hanno Schlögl (2017-2018) Builder-owner: Naturpark Ötztal Open to the public: In summer and winter during opening hours Accessibility: At the southern end of Längenfeld on federal road B186 Tip: Other stations in the Ötztal Nature Park are located in Ambach, Niederthai, Gries, Sölden, Vent and Obergurgl, including four interventions by the LAAC architecture office and an exhibition room on the Hohe Mut Alm alpine pasture.

The Längenfeld Nature Park House is the operational center of the Ötztal Nature Park and includes, among other things, an exhibition about the natural diversity of the valley. Proceeding from the topographical conditions, Hanno Schlögl designed the house as an artificial rock, with its exposed concrete surfaces, imprinted by the horizontal formwork, taking up a role that mediates between rock and wood. Purposefully placed perforations, a transverse concrete slab and the inclined canopy emphasize the structure’s sculptural character.

© Günter R. Wett
04

Renovation of the Innsbruck City Tower

Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 21, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Hanno Vogl-Fernheim (2014-2017) Builder-owner: IIG Open to the public: Monday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tip: The 31-meter-high platform offers a view of the medieval lanes and the mountain panorama around Innsbruck.

Built in the 15th and 16th centuries, the City Tower is one of Innsbruck’s oldest landmarks, and the viewing platform a popular place for locals and tourists. In the course of the renovation, a free-standing double helix with an open stairwell was realized. Not only does it direct the flow of visitors, but is itself an impressive spatial sculpture in the freed-up tower interior.

© David Schreyer
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Kufstein Fortress Visitor Centre

Festung 2, 6330 Kufstein, A
Architecture: Gerhard Mitterberger (2015-2016) Builder-owner: Top City Kufstein GmbH Open to the public: daily 11-16 h Accessibility: The main entrance to the fortress is directly in the town centre. TIP: Via the visitor centre you can also enter the former air-raid shelter tunnel system in the fortress hill.

With the Visitor Centre, one of the most visited sights in Tyrol has been given a prestigious entrée. Almost invisible from beyond the outer city wall, the new building pushes itself between the existing "Feuerwerkhaus" and the new fortress courtyard and closes the square. In keeping with the existing development of the fortress, the partly two-storey large space was given an outer façade and roof cladding of untreated larch wood.

© Zita Oberwalder
06

Swarovski Crystal Worlds Expansion

Kristallweltenstraße 1, 6112 Wattens, A
Architecture: Hanno Schlögl, Johann Obermoser, Daniel Süß, Snøhetta Studio Innsbruck (2015) Builder-owner: D. Swarovski Tourism Services GmbH Open to the public: The entrance area and restaurant are publically accessible; the rest of the attractions cost money. The park, with a crystal cloud and mirror pool as the centerpieces, was designed by Andy Cao und Xavier Perrot.

On the occasion of their 20-year existence, the Swarovski Crystal Worlds doubled in size in 2015, adding a new cabinet of wonder, an extensive park and several structural components. The entrance area, conceived as a "white forest” with its wide-jutting concrete roof supported by birch tree trunks and the design of the store, derived from a river landscape, originate from s_o_s architekten. On one hand, Snøhetta erected the well-lit, organically formed pavilion for the Daniels Café & Restaurant; on the other hand, the play tower encased with crystalline glass panels and the adventure playground that lies in front of it.

© David Schreyer
07

"The Tyrolean Panorama"

Bergisel 2, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: stoll.wagner+partner (2008-2011) Builder-owner: Land Tirol Open to the public: daily 09:00 – 17:00 hrs (subject to a charge) Accessibility: Tram route 1 and approx. 20 min walk or journey with the tourist sightseeing bus TIP: The "Riesenrundgemälde” (huge round painting) by Zeno Diemer (1896) with its portrayal of the third "Bergisel Battle” in 1809, painted on a canvas exceeding 1000 square metres.

A new museum was constructed in Bergisel with the "Riesenrundgemälde” being its main attraction. The architects solved the complex task at the location of both historical and landscape importance, with a flat solitary and "reserved design” building situated on the edge of the slope leading to the Sillschlucht. However, when travelling towards the main traffic routes, the round painting takes on the appearance of a sculpture with it being presented in a hollow.

© Markus Bstieler
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Turmmuseum Oetz (Tower Museum of Oetz)

Schulweg 2, 6433 Oetz, A
Architecture: Brunner + Sallmann (2002-2004) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Oetz Open to the public: Thu-Suni 2 p.m.–6 p.m open on Wed in the summer) Accessibility: Parking possibility at the parking lot in the center of Oetz To see in the museum: the Hans Jäger Collection, as well as regular special exhibitions.

With the "Tuum,” ("tower”), the village center of Oetz possesses one of the oldest and most significant secular buildings in the Ötztal Valley, which was made accessible to the public through the complete refurbishment and adaptation of the museum. The unobtrusive exterior design, the staging of the route guidance and the design of the additions needed for museum operation form an exciting dialog with the historic stock.

© Arno Gisinger
09

Münze Hall (Hall Mint)

Burg Hasegg 6, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Benedikt Gratl (2003) Open to the public: in summer, Tuesday – Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in winter Tuesday – Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Accessibility: Accessible, from Innsbruck, with bus S or 4 In the museum you can mint your own souvenir coin.

Hasegg Castle with the twelve-angle mint tower is the landmark of the town of Hall. Originally, it dates back to the 13th century, but had undergone rather chaotic growth over the centuries. With a few very intelligent and respectful interventions, it was possible to implant a museum. A "must see” is the historic mint tower with its two staircases which you now can enter using a new sculptural steel spiral staircase.

© Arno Gisinger
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Galerie im Taxispalais (art gallery alterations and additions)

Maria-Theresien-Straße 45, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Hanno Schlögl (1998-1999) Builder-owner: Land Tirol Open to the public: Tue-Sun 11a.m.-6 p.m., Thu until 8 p.m. TIP: Internationally renowned contemporary art exhibitions

Since the 1960’s, the Taxis palace, built around 1690 by J. M. Gumpp the Elder, hosts the Region’s contemporary art gallery. To create additional space for exhibitions, a new hall was carved into the courtyard of the baroque palace that now – not unlike in a pond – is mirrored in the glass roof of the new underground hall. That kind of interaction between the historical ensemble and contemporary intervention is characteristic of the entire project, so art exhibitions have found an architecturally fascinating location.

© Margherita Spiluttini
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Salzlager Hall (salt store-room)

Saline 18, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Hanno Schlögl (1996-1997) Builder-owner: Stadtwerke Hall The former Fine Arts Hall closed in 2001, and then the Hall municipality took over the old salt store-room to use it for various expositions and events.

The hall with dominant 9 m high breccie columns, dating back to about the middle of the 19th century, is one of rather few still existing remnants of a once flourishing salt industry in Hall. Very subtle interventions sufficed to change it into a fine arts hall, with a smaller north wing added. Together with another saltworks building which was turned into a "media tower” by Schlögl & Süß, the revitalized monument of industrial archeology suggests a new town gate.

© Rupert Steiner