We all know the special feeling of beeing in architecture which affects as directly without sense interpretation. Architecture that takes effect through it’s pure appearance stands for itself
– we think this is elementary architecture
loos said: “Imagine you walk through the woods and you find a strange looking hill, six feet long and 3 feet tall, you’ll immediatly turn serious – this is a grave. This is architecture.”
we are in günther domenig’s stone house the assumed manifesto of his architecture. it seems to be, that the basic attitude was weaken during its formation process. the longsome building process and the necessty of climatic cover are bluring the pure elementary strenght of this architecture. described by peter noever as “a rammed in the ground piece” of architecture which is emerged from the symbiosis of architectural force and the viability.”
the contrete structure as a part of the existing architecture recovers this strenght in its purest form. throught the extraction and intensification of these elements, fragmants of architecture should emerge. elements which are dealing with the will of expression of the stone house in a uncompromising way should be shown.
