Chesa Gabriel

Chesa Gabriel

Corinna Menn Architekten

Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher
Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher

PROJECT LEADER
Iso Huonder, Regula Andriuet

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Corinna Menn

ENGINEER
Annabelle Breitenbach

AREA
147 m²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Samedan, Switzerland

CATEGORY
Houses, Adaptive Reuse

Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher

Text description provided by architect.

Chesa Gabriel is a small building block within the historic core development in Samedan.

Flanked by neighbouring buildings, the inconspicuous volume abuts a square toward the north and has a narrow south-facing façade looking onto a courtyard garden. 

The typology of stable and farmhouse goes back to the 16th century.

Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher
Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher
Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher

After continual conversions of the original building fabric, an additional storey was added to the house in 1920, drastically altering its volume

The house is thus divided into two parts along this temporal seam.

One apartment comprises the historical fabric, whose original spatial typology was uncovered and opened up to extend across the depth of the house and former stable.

Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher
Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher
Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher

As 20th-century overlay, the attic apartment was given a free-form floor plan within the original walls.

As new sculptural element, the balcony monolithically connects with the outer wall.

Together with the outside stairs and the garden wall, the new elements are melded with the traces left on the façade from the different eras.

Chesa Gabriel
© Franz Rindlisbacher


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