The ŠTAJNHAUS has not been a project; the ŠTAJNHAUS has been a process. This house with a Renaissance core stands right at the foot of the chateau hill, in the former Jewish quarter of Mikulov (a. k. a. Nikolsburg). Throughout its existence, it has suffered a significant number of scars, it has gone through tens of reconstructions and operations. All of this have altered the house beyond recognition. It has maintained its almost medieval picturesqueness.
ORA Architects: We came to a “pudding stone.” The more individual layers, spaces and surprising circumstances we uncovered, the more revisions and alterations our project we had to make in our project; and this lasted, in fact, until the end of realization. In the beginning, we did not have a clue where we would come to in the end.