Location | Schadaupark, Seestrasse 45, Thun BE |
Client | Stadt Thun |
Commission | study commission on invitation 2009 |
Planning | 2009–2013 |
Construction | 2013–2014 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Urs Schmid |
Consultants | Construction manager: Gassner & Leuenberger, Structural engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting, Façade engineering: Metallprojekt GmbH, Building physicist: RSP AG |
Photographer | D.M. Wehrli |
The oldest still existent panorama painting in the world, the Thun Panorama, painted by Marquard Wocher between 1809 and 1814, was comprehensively renovated in 2014. The rotunda designed by the Thun City Architect Karl Keller in 1959, which has housed the panorama painting since the early 1960s, has also been renovated and enhanced by an annexe building. During this transformation, existing aspects of content, architecture and landscape were picked up on, reinterpreted and atmospherically condensed. The pavilion-like, transparent extension building, which transfers the circular geometry of the existing structures to gentle curves in the rectangular exhibition space, is like the antithesis of the introverted rotunda. Thanks to structurally similar characteristics, it enters into a quasi-symbiotic relationship with it, as old and new merge into an inextricable ensemble.
As a part of “Adda Collective” we are selected to participate in the „Korail Residency 2024“, which is embedded in the “Korail City of Culture” initiative in Dhaka/Bangladsh.
The project „Korail City of Culture“, which focuses on Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is a sustainable urban development initiative supported by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its local counterpart, Paraa, and international partner, Floating e.V.. The project aims to support cultural practitioners and producers living, working, and playing in Korail in establishing sustainable cultural practices, and to feed this knowledge back into processes of global and local learning and teaching on sustainable urban development.
The projects and works that are developed during the Korail residency program shall be part of the „Maja-Kori“ Design Festival in and around Korail Basti in December 2024.
Adda Collective is a multidisciplinary and mutinational team formed around „Adda Space“ Dhaka/Bangladesh and Graber & Steiger Architects, Lucerne/Switzerland. For further information you may also check Instagram @grabersteiger @adda.dhaka.
Image: Goethe Institute Bangladesh