The Cooking-Academy is part of the event and seminar area of the wellness and gourment Hotel Bad Schörgau.

The central element is the big cooking block, a monolith of grey-green local porphyry, almost 5 metres long and with a gross weight of 22,000 kg. Only the countertop has been burnished, the other surfaces show the original breakage of the stone.

The cooking area is connected to a large hall. A spiral staircase leads to the seminar room with a large roof terrace. The interiors are completely lined with hand-limed spruce and hemp.

The room's pattern is based on the element of the circle. The circle is the most stable geometrical shape, it conveys security and protection. The overlaps of the circles create a special star-shaped three-dimensional form that becomes the most distinctive element of the ceiling. In this ceiling there are more than 1500 of these stars, each of them individually whitewashed with limestone and mounted by hand. The outer facade is based on the same geometric basis, but without the "stars".