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Münchenwiler Castle Estate Renovation / bernath+widmer

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APARTMENTS, ADAPTIVE REUSE • MURTEN, SWITZERLAND

Architects: bernath+widmer

Year: 2018

Photographs: Roland Bernath

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Text description provided by the architects. The well-preserved historic center of Münchenwiler village
near the little medieval town
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national importance. The listed building used to be part of the well-known Münchenwiler Castle Estate. It
houses the largest barn the Canton of Bern of its time.

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Seven apartments of di erent sizes were built into the mighty, emptied barn structure in compliance
with historic preservation standards. The new volume inserted into the existing shell is virtually detached
from the protected structure, with only a few connection points between them.

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The functional versatility of the former farm building is reflected in the typology of the new apartments:
They are arranged in vertical order and separated from each other by brick firewalls. The cross-walls of
the attached three-story apartments are arranged according to the spacing of the horizontal roof trusses
and the heights of the purlins of the existing wooden frame.

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Address: Münchenwiler, Murten, Switzerland

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