Article source: SENONER TAMMERLE ARCHITEKTEN

Background

The Lamm has adorned the main square in Castelrotto since 1670.  Unlike the other houses and buildings around the hotel, the property had never really been considered of particular architectural value possibly because of the varied building additions and the restructuring carried out over the course of time. At the beginning of the 1800s, the main building in the square, together with an extension facing west and an edifice joining the former two, made up the hotel complex which stretched along the entire east side of Vicolo Vogelweider.  At the start of the last century, the building in the village square had more or less acquired the outline it has today. In the 1970s, the existing extension and connecting building were replaced by a new structure but in 2000,  major renovations were undertaken  to radically change it: the building was raised, the exterior covered with tavillons and the pitched roof replaced by a single sloping roof, almost like a theatrical drape. A second extension was built along via Dolomiti, the new road created to ease the traffic flow. This was a four-story building in wooden lath plaster with four bay Erker turrets, and a terrace instead of a roof. Both these interventions had a significant damaging impact on the village architectural setting and the rooftop view of the houses in the historic  center.

Image Courtesy © Andergassen Florian

• Architects: SENONER TAMMERLE ARCHITEKTEN
• Project: The Lamm Hotel
• Location: Kastelruth, Italy
• Photography: Andergassen Florian, Lukas Schaller

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