STUDIO KAEFI

Atelierhaus Prezier 8

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©David Prior, 2024

Description

In Prezier, a historic Rundling village in Lemgow, Lower Saxony, a traditional North German hall house from 1820/23 defines the central village square with its farm gable. The building combines residential and agricultural functions under one roof and is characteristic of the region’s traditional hall houses. Like many farms of this type, it lost its original purpose with the end of agricultural use and most recently stood vacant.

In 2025, Kay Fischer and Jonas Käckenmester founded the non-profit Atelierhaus Prezier 8 gGmbH to preserve the listed building and bring it into new use. For several years they have been working on questions surrounding the transformation of rural building stock. In Prezier, they understand the house as a concrete site for this exploration.

The project aims to restore the historic structure and transform it into a live-work atelier that brings together living, working, and cultural exchange under one roof. Rather than fixing the building in a particular historical state, the project seeks a use that takes the existing structure seriously and continues it according to its own logic. In this sense, the house is understood as a working piece — a structure within an ongoing process of building on. Even before construction began, the building was used as an experimental site during an international summer school, establishing it from the outset as a place of both practical and conceptual work.

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Prezier, Lower Saxony, Germany
Cultural / Residential / Non-Profit Organization
550 m²
Atelierhaus Prezier 8 gGmbH
www.instagram.com/prezier_8

Architecture & Founders

Kay Fischer, Jonas Käckenmester

Collaborators & Contributors

Magdalena Bakula, Nikola Beim, Gaia Cucchiella, Enno Drewes, Mareike Dröge, Gabriele Giacomo, Leon Glasser, Andrea Grambow, Sarah Greib, Elena Haede, Johann Hafferkamp, Daniel Hahn, Paul Halbritter, Hilla Hashagen, Nicolas Helm, Ferdinand Helmeke, Leon Paul Hensler, Joscha Kirchknopf, Luise Klaus, Tomas Lendvay, Katharina Paschburg, Greta Pirzl, David Prior, Tereza Prochazkova, Saray Purto Hoffmann, Anna Schneibel, Filip Sovicek, Lotta Teufel, Caroline Triebert, Paula Vidal

Funding Partners

European Union (LEADER), Samtgemeinde Lüchow, Gemeinde Lemgow, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, VR-Stiftung

Photo from 1978
©Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

Adaptive continuation of use; Reference
©Erich Fuchs, 1955

Largely preserved entrance hall

Architectural interventions as artefacts

Longitudinal section

Ground floor

Mezzanine

Attic

The raw “house as a workpiece,” seen from the center of the village

Teaching building culture on site
©Leon Hensler

Collaborative work on the monument with young people and local craftsmen
©Ferdinand Helmecke

The house as a work piece
©Ferdinand Helmecke

Guided tour through vernacular building culture
©Ferdinand Helmecke

Summer school with international students from TU Vienna, TU Brno and Leibniz University Hannover
©Katharina Paschburg

Public exhibition of the house as a collective work piece
©Leon Hensler

Shared meal with the village community and students
©Leon Hensler

Exhibitions & installations at Prezier 8

Three-part installation of "Triumph Der Einigkeit", "Because We Bleed" and "Curb" by Andrea Grambow & Joscha Kirchknopf

Exhibtion view of the group show curated by Vorfluter Projectspace

Audio-visuell installation "Lavalamp Quintett” by David Prior

The sculptures “Il Trasloco” by Saray Purto Hoffmann were guests at Vorfluter, Berlin for a week...

...and arrived at Prezier 8 in a performative act.

Il Trasloco (The Relocation), 2022, sculpture installation, sculpture 1 240x80x190cm, sculpture 2 120x70x162

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