Conversion of the Widum Antholz Mittertal
The parish rectory is being refurbished for public and parish uses and for assisted living. Existing room divisions and circulation, façade openings and interior fittings are retained.
On the ground floor, as at present, the front rooms are used as offices for the priest and the parish, while the rear rooms set into the slope serve as plant and cellar rooms. The partition walls from the 1977 conversion are partly removed again, and the central cellar room is adapted as a sanitary room. A lift serving all floors is installed next to the staircase. On the first floor, all historic internal divisions are retained. The existing rooms are used as flats. New sanitary cells for the rooms adjoining the central corridor to the east are inserted as self-contained drywall units, so that existing fittings such as panelling and stucco remain untouched.
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On the second floor, the front and rear parts of the central corridor are separated by glazed partitions and assigned to the residential units.
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In the attic, with due regard for the historic roof structure, a climatically separated drywall room is created in the centre, from which the adjoining storage rooms for the local associations are accessible.
For the exterior of the Antholz rectory, the current access arrangement and design are to be retained unchanged.
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The historic fabric of the rectory is largely preserved; the building materials used are matched to the existing building, with preference given to regional materials. The façades and window openings remain unchanged. For the refurbishment of the façade surfaces, a reworking of the existing render is proposed. Removing the existing render does not appear technically necessary and is not planned for cost reasons. The surfaces should be treated with a glaze or limewash in an off-white tone to soften the coarse texture of the existing render and cover the yellowish, blotchy discolouration. The existing windows are replaced by new ones; timber windows matched to the historic building in their divisions and colour are planned.
Inside the building, out of respect for the historic fabric, structural interventions are planned only where strictly necessary for usability. In general, the existing building structure is left as it is. The existing timber floors are refurbished; in the entrance area the flooring is replaced by a stone floor. Historic fittings such as the late Baroque two-panel frame doors with spiral hinges, the post-war panelling and the stove in the south-west corner room are refurbished. The render surfaces and stucco reworked during the 1977 restoration remain unchanged; renewal or exposure does not appear technically necessary and is likewise not planned for cost reasons.
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