transformation

What makes this project of limited budget special is its reliance on existing resources, including the use of objects and materials found on site, their transformation and endowment with new meanings according to the building’s new function.
The installation of thermal glazing (offered by a sponsor) into the building’s threefold windows involved the local penal institution’s carpentry workshop, where convicts sanded off the outdated brown surface treatment from the window frames. For want of paint, the upper section of the window frames, which used to open upwards, was replaced by simpler fixed glazing.
Later the discarded frames were turned into the legs of the tables made from the dismantled interior door panels.
The shelves that could be saved from the deteriorated built-in cabinetry were transformed into chairs, while their door panels were turned into components
of new furniture as well as screens for installing exhibitions. The cabinetry frame was transformed into exhibition display structures.
The neon lights that were to be discarded ended up installed as an optical suspended ceiling.