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8 building(s) found:
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Parish Rectory, Erl

Dorf 21, 6343 Erl, A
Architecture: umfeld architectural environments (2013) Builder-owner: Pfarre Erl

In the rural village center of Erl, the church, cemetery and parish garden form a clearly enclosed unit marked off from the surrounding development. As a secular antipode to the church, a new parish rectory was placed in the garden. Its location and polygonal ground plan layout were derived from the existing structure. Analogous to the roof of the church, the structure was enveloped with a copper façade, which will take on a characteristic blue-green patina over the years.

© Günter R. Wett
02

Granatkapelle (Garnate Chapel)

Penkenjoch, 6292 Finkenberg, A
Architecture: Mario Botta, Bernhard Stoehr (2013) Builder-owner: Josef Brindlinger Open to the public: during the summer months

With the Granatkapelle (Garnate Chapel), Swiss star architect Mario Botta executed his first structure in Austria in Penkenjoch im Zillertal. As a firm counterpoint to nature, he placed an oversized crystal in the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron on a ledge east of the reservoir. Clad with corten steel plates on the outside and laid with slender larch wood slats on the inside and lit solely through an opening in the roof, the sculptural structure stands out on account of its clear and precise geometry.

© Enrico Cano
03

Parish Center Aschau

Dorfstraße 40, 6274 Aschau im Zillertal, A
Architecture: M9 ARCHITEKTEN Senfter Lanzinger (2010-2013) Builder-owner: Pfarre Aschau Accessibility: In the village center, directly next to the church The project was nominated in 2013 for the ZV-Building-Owner-Award.

The meanwhile functionless pastor’s rectory provided the spaces needed in the Aschau parish for various groups, the administration and celebrations. This rectory, which is attached to the church and listed, was gutted and adapted for the new uses. Ancillary rooms and a small apartment are located in a narrow annex, which adopt the existing building lines in the sense of further construction.

© David Schreyer
04

Schaufeljoch Chapel

Schaufeljoch, 6167 Neustift im Stubaital, A
Architecture: ao-architekten (2012) Builder-owner: Heinrich Klier Open to the public: yes Accessibility: On the way from the mountain station of the Schaufeljoch Cable Car to the mountain peak platform "Top of Tyrol.” TIP: Hanging in the small steeple is a bell that anyone can ring if they want to.

Tourism pioneer Heinrich Klier had a chapel dedicated to the memory of his companions built directly on the ridge of the Schaufeljoch Mountain. Very plain in its form and materiality, the structure is reduced to the basic elements of a classic chapel and offers a place of calm and contemplation, which is open to everyone, in the midst of a lively ski circuit.

© Günter R. Wett
05

Funeral Hall and Cemetery Expansion

9961 Hopfgarten in Defereggen, A
Architecture: Schneider & Lengauer (2010-2011) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Hopfgarten Accessibility: Cemetery at the St. John Nepomucene Parish Church. The listed St. Michael’s Chapel, which became a contemporary memorial room for the community’s fallen soldiers, was likewise redesigned.

In the course of the cemetery expansion, a new funeral hall, whose exterior façade made of quarry stone masonry is based on the solid natural stone wall of the cemetery, was erected. The space in the interior, featuring wood paneling and simple benches, ties into the tradition of the farmhouse parlor. A narrow window and a circumferential glass strip placed under the roof bring natural light into the space and establish the relationship to the village, resp. the mountains.

© Kurt Hörbst
06

Pfarrzentrum St. Norbert (St. Norbert parish centre)

Köldererstraße 6, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Josef Lackner (1969-1972) Builder-owner: Pfarre St. Norbert Open to the public: partly Artworks by Anton Tiefenthaler

To create the necessary space for a variety of purposes without, however, outgrowing the scale, both in area and volume, of the surrounding buildings, Lackner designed a two-storey building, setting the congregation room, most unusually, on the top floor. The main building is more or less "a house just like any other”, but is then upgraded by a lateral cover and a ceiling ideally as well as structurally separated from it.

© feilfoto (© Fam. Lackner)
07

Pfarrkirche St. Emmaus, Völs (St. Emmaus parish church)

6176 Völs, A
Architecture: Josef Lackner (1965-1967) Builder-owner: Diözese Innsbruck Artworks by Josef Mikl
More recent adjacent buildings, unfortunately, have had a negative effect on the way the building dialogues with the landscape.

The striking trench-shaped roof of the white building is not a mere theatrical gesture, it is meant to convey that this is a very special building. At the same time, it holds the wooden ceiling of the interior, thus creating a very introspective room for worshipping. The light strictly comes from above; this and the minimalistic choice of only two materials for the interior strongly underline the sacrality this space is meant to exude.

© feilfoto (© Fam. Lackner)
08

Pfarrkirche St. Pius (St. Pius parish church)

Spingeser Straße 14, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Josef Lackner (1958-1960) Builder-owner: Pfarre St. Pius X. Open to the public: by appointment only Accessibility: on Schützenstraße, bus O from the city centre Artworks by Hans Ladner.
Close by you find the new BTV branch by Hannes Vogl-Fernheim (2004).

The church for the new Olympic Village was Lackner’s first major building. With the spatial organisation as well as the then "strange” choice of materials (raw concrete, granite cobblestones) he was way ahead of his time. The square central congregation room rests on a somewhat higher podium and is encircled by a low balustrade wall. This rather closed "central box”, as one might describe it, is then surrounded, on a slightly lower lever, by a stations of the Cross assageway the glass panels of which open up to the everyday life outside.

© Nikolaus Schletterer