Modernisation Chesa Gabriel

The Chesa Gabriel is a small build­ing block of the his­toric core de­vel­op­ment of Samedan. Di­rectly flanked by its neigh­bors on the sides, the in­con­spic­u­ous struc­ture closes off the plaza space to the north and forms a nar­row fa­cade to­wards the court­yard-like gar­den. The ty­pol­ogy of sta­ble and small farm­house has its ori­gins in the 16th cen­tury. After con­tin­u­ous trans­for­ma­tions of the orig­i­nal sub­stance, the house un­der­goes a de­ci­sive change in vol­ume­try with an ex­ten­sion around 1920. Cor­re­spond­ing to this tem­po­ral seam, the house is di­vided into two apart­ments. In the lower one, the orig­i­nal, cham­ber-like room ty­pol­ogy is ex­posed and opened across the depth of the res­i­den­tial house and for­mer sta­ble. As an over­lay of the 20th cen­tury, the attic apart­ment is de­signed as an open spa­tial struc­ture within the en­clos­ing walls. Its bal­cony con­nects as a sculp­tural el­e­ment mono­lith­i­cally with the outer wall. To­gether with the gar­den stairs and the wall, these new in­ter­ven­tions are ground into the ex­ist­ing struc­ture as fur­ther de­posits of the fa­cade shaped by dif­fer­ent time pe­ri­ods.