SOMMERBERG-HOTEL The Mental Wellbeing Place

Abstract: In our fast-paced, hectic time, which is stamped by an ever-increasing degree of nervousness, unrest, and unsteadiness it has become customary for mankind to relax for a shorter or longer period of time from the habits of everyday life and recreation. To search for strength somewhere on earth that is away from the place of business, that invites you to rest from everyday worries and toils. So lures the Black Forest. With these words, the Sommerberg-Hotel was advertised already over 100 years ago. Nowadays stress has become a fashionable term in our modern and digital world. For many, it is almost a status symbol - because those who are stressed have a lot on their plate and are therefore important. This attitude is leading to increasing health issues and to a society that is not able to breathe anymore because they have to be in working order. After decades of being empty and unused, the Sommerberg-Hotel occupies a unique location on top of the mountain in the Black Forest. Following its rich past and responding to society's needs it becomes once more a refuge to escape the rush. In close dialogue with the existing, this project investigates a possible transformation and a repurposing of the old structures of the Sommerberg-Hotel. Making it to The Mental Wellbeing Place.