The Plan of St. Gall a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery |
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OTTO VÖLCKERS, 1937
Fiechter-Zollikofer's article had barely been published when [after Henning, 1882, 150, fig. 62] Plan of a Swiss house of relatively recent date with an open hearth [after Steensberg, 1943, 20, fig. 7] A north European variant of the house type shown in figure 275. A BAKING OVEN B MALT KILN C KETTLE D FIRE RECESS E HEATER F MANTLE
the German architect, Otto Völckers, touched upon the
problem of the St. Gall house in a small, handsomely
illustrated book in which he reviewed the history of the
European house from the Stone Age to the present.[41]
Völckers exemplified his views with a reconstruction of
St. Gall's House for Distinguished Guests (fig. 280). This
he imagines to have been a steep-roofed structure, hipped-over
on the narrow ends of the building. The walls are low
and masonry-built with windows giving light to the external
rooms. The center room is lighted by an opening in the
ridge above the hearth site, which also serves as a smoke
outlet and is surmounted by a small protective roof that
shields the opening against any downpour. The heating
units in the bedrooms of the distinguished guests are
interpreted as corner fireplaces with masonry stacks protruding
through the roof above them. Völckers did not discuss
275. ENGADIN, SWITZERLAND
in a common center room that gives access to all of the outer rooms.
The hearth is surmounted by a wooden smoke flue of pyramidal
shape that projects beyond the roof.276. DANISH FARM HOUSE
Chimney-surmounted hearths of this type work well in relatively
small houses, but would involve constructional hazards of frightening
magnitude in most of the larger houses of the Plan of St. Gall.
277. PLAN OF ST. GALL. BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE MONASTERY
RECONSTRUCTION BY FIECHTER-ZOLLIKOFER [1936, 405, fig. 2]
A great advance over the reconstructions offered by the classicists (figs. 266, 267 and 274) and the first attempt to interpret the guest and
service structures of the Plan of St. Gall in the light of an existing building tradition—wholly workable in structural terms, yet too dependent
on local alpine conditions (log construction) to be applicable to a document worked out in the heart of the Frankish Empire and conceived to
reflect more general conditions.
interior view of the dining room (fig. 281) which he published
in a subsequent book,[42] he appears to think of the
inner wall partitions as likewise being built as solid masonry
walls.
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