Ibex Museum in St. Leonhard im Pitztal
Rainer Köberl  Daniela Kröss 

Ibex Museum in St. Leonhard im Pitztal

Rainer Köberl  Daniela Kröss 


Located on the slope of a wooded mountain in the narrow Pitztal Valley of the Alps, near the Tyrol, this vertical museum is devoted to a native species of mountain goats that became extinct but was successfully reintroduced into the region in the 1950s. The exhibition spaces laid out within a tower clad in prefabricated panels of reddish-toned concrete are connected by a bridge to an outdoor habitat for seven ibexes. A joint work of the architects Rainer Köberl, Daniela Kröss, and Julian Gatterer, the compact volume presents facades of pigmented concrete and a wood-like texture evoking the old granary on whose footprint the building stands.