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Chesa Perini, S-chanf
Chesa Perini in S-chanf is one of the most important 16th century Engadine patrician houses.
It developed from a medieval tower into a farmhouse and later became a patrician home. The unsightly extensions around the house were removed in 1987/88, and the house was comprehensively renovated, leaving the enormous hay barn as an open volume. Now, two decades later, Von Bartha Gallery's mighty art room has been installed as an independent, self-supporting structure in the interior.
Around the austere black bitumen-coated geometric cube-structure, and, in conjunction with the irregular geometry of the surrounding hay loft walls, a thrilling interspace has been emerged.
The upper part of the new volume serves as a clerestory and is intervowen into the cross-shaped wooden construction that stabilies the hay barn. The geometry of this construction determines the partition and the shape of the clerestory sectors.