Resurrection of the Sudetenland

Sudeten. Ore Mountains. Seventy years ago, the mountains lost their heart and soul because those who loved them had to leave. One human life later, however, this is no longer the case, people with an ingrained relationship to the place have returned here.

We were given the opportunity to resurrect a local solitude that was dying out. To create a facility for summer camps and family mountain accommodation. We decided to definitively abandon the line of depressive nostalgia and first-rate mountain romance, to break away from the myth of an eternally abandoned and decaying region. We needed to create a rather shining place, teeming with life. That is why we chose white for the new life of the area.

We put a durable steel cap on the old building, which, through the wooden roof connecting the slope, turns into a white steel suit on the newly built building. We then placed all of this on a pedestal made of local Ore Mountain stones, ruins of the past.

We conceived the interiors of the apartments and the administrator's house simply with a touch of coziness, but also durability in the face of mass visitor use. Including the most demanding ones – the cheerful children's "campers", who move around here happily and wildly, with their hair from smoke, their fingers from bad luck and occasionally with some beautiful natural object in their hands.