Built Design /// Kalhöfer-Korschildgen

City Administration Monheim:

The hallmark of our affluent society is the more. XL means more for the money, one could be left out: to be on the safe side, think generously, but don’t think that in the end you will have too little after all. The car industry lives predominantly from this luxury principle - SUVs are the …

The debate between those who think architecture from its form and those who think it from its use has been running through the architecture scene since the 1960s. One can describe the attitude of both currents with the simple pattern of Freudian psychoanalysis. On the one hand, there are those who …

Historical rooms are spaces of memory and remembrance. In them not only the architectural time is condensed in different forms and constructions, but also the demands and ideas of the societies and institutions of the respective epoch. The art historian Martin Warnke describes this background very …

The project I will present today is part of the city of Arnsberg but not an immediate part of its urban space. We find a place that is extraterritorial and self-sufficient. It is about the redesign of a former monastery. Its qualities are only possible through demarcation and the creation of its …

A few years ago there was a very successful film in French cinema that offered two versions at the same time. Both versions were launched at the same time. Before going to the cinema, you had the choice between the movie Smoking and its second version, No-Smoking. This could lead to moviegoers who …

Today we live in a constantly changing society, which is characterized by compression and expansion. Time and space are occupied more intensively in “always and everywhere ”1. “Always” stands for the condensation of time through activity, “Everywhere” for the expansion of mobility. This results in an expansio …

Today we live in a constantly changing society, which is characterized by compression and expansion. Time and space are occupied more intensively in the “always and everywhere”. “Always” stands for the condensation of time through activity, “Everywhere” stands for the exp …

Old and new. The historic building by Fritz Schumacher is the starting point and reference for the design of the new. The formal positions of the new building, such as proportion, order, facade and roof edge, are based on the shape and details of the old building. They are further developed and …

Search for clues The Roman evidence lies hidden in the landscape and is its secret. The design wants to make their traces visible without destroying the poetry of the hidden. Interventions should only enable the visitor to experience the historical images and time levels hidden in the landscape and …

Large plastic room envelopes were developed to delimit the different thematic areas of the exhibition. Seamless, translucent room dividers up to 13 meters in length are backlit and used on both sides for media purposes. The state exhibition was designed in such a way that it can be shown at other …

Moving Icon is a mobile information pavilion, that is implied in a series of historic places. The image of the popular housing icon made of four walls and a two-slope-roof has provided the basis for this convertible room, in which information about historic cities and their architecture is …

The Haus am Horn designed by Georg Muche is the beginning of classical modernism and its first icon. In the Bauhaus year 2019 it was completely renovated in terms of monument preservation and a permanent exhibition was added. The visitor should be able to imagine the original rooms of the model …

The CINENOVA Arthouse-Kino is one of the most renowned cinematic cultural sites in Cologne. The ambitious restaurant attached was to be given a special atmospheric identity, and lighting and acoustics also had to be significantly improved. The design intervention that has been made understands the …

We find a place in the heart of the city that had all the opportunities, whose quality was gambled away in the 1960s and is still an architectural no-man’s-land even today. What is being discussed is an existing, unidentified building without any reference to history or the surrounding urban …

Mobile architecture primarily means territorial mobility of real estate and its relocation by transport. In a broader sense, mobile architecture also means stationary architecture that enables flexible and diverse use through changeability. In both cases, architecture is set in motion and sent on a …

Fire protection. The experience of fire protection begins with the outer skin. Every 5 minutes, a 20-second light and sound installation starts there, putting the visitor in an alarm situation and also drawing attention to the topic within the overall exhibition. The rhythm and the timing of the …

Media libraries are libraries enhanced by digital offerings. They are characterized by state-of-the-art application-oriented technologies. The architecture and appearance of the media library of the Hochsauerlandkreis must be a mirror of the new possibilities. Based on the order structure O and 1 …

The CINENOVA Arthouse-Cinema is one of the most renowned cinematic cultural sites in Cologne. The redesign of the existing foyer should develop a new spatial identity and at the same time modernize the technical infrastructure. The design intervention made understands the space of the foyer as a …

The world of the living monastery and thus 800 years of history perished and lost in 1803 with the dissolution of the monastery. The question that stood at the beginning of this exhibition was: How should you show something that no longer exists? The exhibition is an appeal to the imagination and …

A temporary exhibition pavilion was created for the future Museum and Culture Forum Arnsberg, which was intended to provide information about the project using analogue and digital media. All structural elements can be assembled with Velcro fasteners within a very short time. The exhibition …

The changeable object offers a weatherproof refuge for experiments with the perception of different atmospheres. Equipped with the centrally placed divan, it is at the same time a public and private place, which leaves the dreaming only a limited ‘time in space’. The emotional reference …

Architecture Kalhöfer-Korschildgen was founded in 1995 in Paris and Aachen and has been working in Cologne since 2000. We plan and build cultural projects for public clients: archives, libraries, museums, cinemas, buildings for tourism, or office and service landscapes. We have many years of …

I believe that the situation of architects can only be changed if the architect’s reputation in society can be improved. For most builders, the architect’s performance is of no value, but rather an annoying evil. Why do specialist engineers and architects pay? What is the value of form …

Cities are addicted to identity. Making what is special can be read helps in the competition for investors and only enables the commonality of the citizens. Identity and social space only work together. The building needs the superstructure. Ultimately, the Regionale 2006 is an event that helps to …

Long-term, short-term, for a few hours, or for a year - how long do we work with the same standards? A new temporary employee, a volunteer for the summer or more space for a new project! The conversion of a former bank into the editorial room of a daily newspaper became an occasion to think about …

We find a place in the heart of the city that had all possibilities, the quality of which was gambled away in the 1960s and is therefore an architectural no man’s land today. The discussion is about an existing, identityless building without any reference to history or the surrounding urban …

The Historical Museum Saar is part of the Saarbrücken castle complex, which was renovated by the prominent architect Gottfried Böhm in the 1980s, and is housed in a new building to the side of the castle, which was built in postmodern style. Thanks to the Böhm entrance building, the museum has a sp …

A sounding discovery trail should create an eventful and attractive connection between the two musical institutions of the Rock’n’Pop Museum and the State Music Academy. Such a continuous path must use existing connections and, where these are insufficient, create new ones. This sound …

The classic tympanum of the historical portal or gable was always an informative surface for the figurative representation and narrative entry. The design for the temporary exhibition pavilion builds on this tradition and develops the tympanum into an interactive landscape space.

The design links the architectural and political past of the “Eastern Party”. Both are exposed to a process of transformation: The building becomes an architectural and political journey through time that includes the past and the future. Plattenbau and PDS are both the offspring of a …

Incision. The design is characterized by the balance between industrial history and the course of the landscape, between the past and the present: - the industrial history becomes spatial in the overarching gesture of the simple roof reminiscent of factory buildings; - The flowing landscape can be …

A defining urban planning element of the Freudenberg Museum of Technology is the relocated former sawmill hall. It is the largest and tallest structure in the ensemble. A possible expansion must take this into account. We are not interested in a new beginning, but in a sensitive and appropriate …

A typical kitchen from the 1950s, endowed with yellow floor tiles and a serving hatch, has to be rehabilitated. The users experiment with devices and techniques used in modern cooking. An existing kitchen block in stainless steel, has to be integrated with the new accommodation. This new layout …

A simple, isolated farmhouse was converted into a holiday home. The quarry stone house was in ruinous state, without sanitary facilities. The main objectives of the design were the reconstruction of the torso and the installation of a kitchen and a bathroom. Obviously, a purely functional …

Task. A terrace house in a co-operative settlement from the 1920s changed hands: the house has to be renovated and adjusted to the requirements of the new proprietor. Situation. Two existing levels with identical plans and the classic housing standards: Kitchen, hall, bathroom, two rooms. Concept – L …

Wedinghausen Monastery was founded in 1170 as a Premonstratensian order. At the beginning of the 19th century, after more than 600 years of history, the monastery was dissolved and parts of the structure were subsequently demolished. What remained was the east wing, which the Catholic parish …

Task. A slate-clad mansion in the center of a small German town has to be renovated in order to meet the owners’ demands. Situation. Prior to the renovation the house was inhabited by the clients and three tenants. The clients used to live in one part of the ground level and the first floor which h …

The project, a citizens’ office in the town hall, refutes the usual expectations: normally, office rooms are functional grey places without character. The citizen waits bored and passively in an emotionless atmosphere. The owner’s wish was never to think about administration. Lightness …

An unused attic space in a typical mid-terrace house from the 1950s was to be expanded. The settlement and the house are under monument protection. A low room height and the monument preservation requirement to allow only small-format roof openings limited the scope for design. The initial …