Rural college of domestic science
(girls’ school/boarding school), 2003
Bruck/Glocknerstraße, Salzburg

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Rural college of domestic science (girls’ school/boarding school), 2003
Bruck/Glocknerstraße, Salzburg

Maria Hahnenkamp transformed the entrance area of the college of domestic science into a space that is clearly structured in terms of architecture and content, transferring it on to a symbolic level addressing the function of the place itself, a girls’ school for domestic service professions.

The formally compelling combination of all-over wall decorations with ornament and text, their colours, red and pink, corresponding to the existing terrazzo floor, gives rise to a space in which the subject of “woman”, the traditional occupational profile of women, is inscribed. … more

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