Asemic Scapes by Sarah Schneider

What you’re looking at below are the Asemic Scapes, a beautiful and breathtaking concept for the Rehabilitation Centre Rainberg (a medical rehabilitation centre) in the Austrian Alps designed by architecture graduate Sarah Schneider.

Designed to accommodate 50 patients, it features balconies overlooking the mountains and raised walkways running through the surrounding forests.

Sarah explains that in general rehab centres, like their predecessors the sanatoriums of the 19th and 20th century, are based on a dualistic set of values: they embody the belief in the healing power of technology and the healing power of nature, which is why they are mostly situated in prestine landscapes.

Therefore her attempt was to develop a contemporary relationship to the landscape based on calligraphic ornamentation.

Calligraphy is adding an idea of creating variation through artistic expression to a technical matter of communication and is connected to ornamentation which generally uses natural motifs and often rules of natural growth.

The project develops an architecture that uses rules of natural growth and connects both growth and ornament, with a landscape environment, topologically and calligraphically.

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