A place that makes people and water go slow is home to a jewel of a retreat for culinary hedonists: the Mühltalhof hotel and restaurant.
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Planning: AllesWirdGut
Project stages: 1–8
Client: Rachinger family, Mühltalhof
Direct commission: 2019
Completion: February 2021 (hotel and restaurant)
GFA: 1,200 m²
Team: Caroline Steinsiepen, Johannes Windbichler, Lena Schweiger, Nadine Tschinke, Rachele Albini, Thomas Scheiblauer
Structural engineering: H+W Ziviltechniker GmbH, Alkoven
Kitchen planning: Redolfi, Wien
HVAC: Leibetseder GmbH & Co. KG., Altenfelden
Electrical engineering: Gahleitner GmbH & Co KG, Neufelden
Construction physics, fire protection: Röhrer Bauphysik, Wien
BOQ, construction site supervision: Buchegger 7 Baumanagement GmbH, Wien
Furniture refurbishing: Stefan Wieser, Eferding
Lighting manufacturer: XAL
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The wish of one of the best chefs in the country (Philip Rachinger) to upgrade and expand the kitchen of the sixth-generation hospitality business prompted the renewed architectural expression of a family success story: AllesWirdGut reinterprets Mühltalhof 6.0 as a collage of individual, finely tuned, and self-consistent spaces and situations that always also appear as a coherent larger whole. So the kitchen was moved into the center of the restaurant, the spa area on the garden floor was expanded with formally reduced facilities and clearly reoriented to open to the garden and the in-house riverside swimming area. The gentle conversion of Mühltalhof is based on the vision of an entire hotel village of different special lodgings. At the same time, the design concept is meandering through traces of the past, uncovering histories and respectfully transposing them into the present time. The backbone of the spatial narrative is a long stone counter of local chlorite gneiss that references the visual impression of forest, grass, and water. Inspired by the idea of a market street, this twenty-meter-long piece of furniture guides hotel and restaurant customers through the day—from reception desk to breakfast buffet, from the drinks counter and kitchen pass to the ‘chef’s tables’ in the redesigned fireplace room.
Nuanced wood paneling frames the setting and adds to the overall impression of well-organized hospitality. The individual qualities of the existing restaurant rooms were reaccentuated to create a differentiated tripartite spatial setting: While the taproom still breathes the atmosphere of the historical inn, the fully glazed veranda continues to offer seating in a special place close by the water. The fireplace room, which is the Mühltalhof’s fine-dining area, looks both inward and outward: to the Große Mühl river flowing by and to the futuristic new kitchen workshop—including the open fire stove, glowing charcoal grill, and bread-baking oven. Accordingly, the room was given a dimmed atmosphere with pitch-black wall paneling and a coffered ceiling.The slender oakwood structure is continued in reduced form on the upper floor, which gives center stage to the accessories on display as well as to the shop window, which extends over both floors. The wooden shelf system has its material counterpoint in the stone-look grey-sprinkled floor. Rising out of it in the middle of the room are simple counter islands with integrated sinks: waterdrop®, you see, is all about water—as is its new flagship store.
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Site plan
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Ground level
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Section
Photos: tschinkersten fotografiem2021, Illustrations: AllesWirdGut
Conversion Gösserhalle
What a gift!
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magdas Hotel
I like that!
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AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH
Untere Donaustraße 13–15
1020 Vienna, Austria
AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH
Jahnstraße 18
80469 Munich, Germany
AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH
Jahnstraße 18
80469 Munich, Germany
Associated Partners: DI Andreas Marth / DI Christian Waldner (CEO) / DI Friedrich Passler (CEO) / DI Herwig Spiegl
Member of the statutory professional association of architects and consulting engineers, Vienna,
Lower Austria and Burgenland: ZL 91.519/79-I/3/02
Member of the Bavarian chamber of architects
Commercial Court Vienna / Reg.No.: 228065s / Vat No.: ATU 55987702
Erste Bank Vienna / IBAN: AT67 2011 1280 2411 2400 / BIC: GIBAATWWXXX
Public Relations: pr@awg.at / Accounting: buchhaltung@awg.at / Human Resources: hr@awg.at / Applications: job@awg.at
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