Old substance with visible traces gets a new minimalistic finish

The two architects have committed themselves to the principle of showing very clearly what is existing and what is new in a building. "I’m excited about the externality I’m exposed to when I encounter an old building. I can't just design anything. The house gives me a framework, changes its opinion as the building develops, reveals treasures and impasses - that’s what I prefer to work with," says Nicola Petereit. In one of the former paint shop rooms, there are centimetre-thick layers of paint on the walls and countless traces of paint on the floor. For decades, brushes were knocked out and rollers rolled out. The architects created immensely aesthetic and ideally valuable relics, which they believe are extremely worth preserving. Everything old remained rough, with visible traces, and everything new became smooth, angular, flush and minimalist.