Architect: André Habermann, habermann.decker.architekten PartGmbH
Werther, Germany
Unexpectedly, the new museum Peter August Böckstiegel rises from the hilly landscape in the Werther district Arrode. In the midst of an orchard in the immediate neighbourhood the the artist’s family home now stands a modern building made of shell limestone VeroStone Fossil Smoke.
With its exterior façade of 4 cm thick natural stone with a honed surface the single-storey construction blends into its surroundings. The design of the museum – polygonal, without right angles and with slanted walls – required various special works during the production of the shell limestone, like false joints, drip nose, cuts on the long edge and worked visible edges as well as various miter cuts.
