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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 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 …

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 …

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 …

In the search for light, warmth and a view, the interior is set in motion. The inner world is turned inside out and the spatial experience becomes an excursion. In the luggage the garden furniture a table cloth and dishes. At the beginning of the journey, limited by your own four walls, the view …

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 objective set up by the clients – who are journalists – was to create an additional study. The extension of a garage which is integrated within the house was originally envisaged. The typical timber-framed house with a large garden is located in a nature reserve. The clients were inhabiting the gro …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A new tower construction to be erected within the ruins of the wall of the old castle tower is to become the symbol that can be seen from afar and the dramaturgical highlight of the state garden show. During the garden show, the tower, as a vertical garden, is permanently equipped with flowers in …

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 …

The town gate Zülpicher Tor is one of the most remarkable ancient buildings in Nideggen, a tourist city in the Eifel Range, south of Cologne. The expansion of the gate provides an access keeping up with the times, and therefore makes its touristic use possible. The architecture of the expansion …

Architecture. After 1803 the cloister of the monastery, parts of the building had been demolished. The opening of the courtyard through the demolition of the south wing 1885 was an architectonic loss, but symbolized the changing of European society at that time and gave new quality of light and …

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 …

The gable roof is the icon of regional building and a symbol of regional solidarity. Moving Icon is the contemporary version of the archetype and the interpretation of a popular everyday architecture of 4 walls and a roof. Present monolith and changeable object at the same time, Moving Icon is a …

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 …

Vollrads Castle is one of the historically most important wineries in the Rheingau with an 800-year history of viticulture. The winery exceptionally builds Riesling and also plans to document the dies in an exhibition. The report Contacting exhibition locations and exhibition topics in Schloss …

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 extension is separated from the old building and fills an area in the backyard of the old building. It is set directly against the surrounding historical buildings and their walls. The hall was constructed in steel as a folded structure and clad with a zinc roof. The resulting building appears …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The owners are passionate gardeners. So every single vegetable in the ceiling picture was grown and eaten by the builders themselves.

Transitions. Learning and reading presuppose openness of thought. How is that possible in a meaningful space that sets strict boundaries? We offer a place for the formation of fully open relationships - between outside and inside, city and building, open space and architecture. Entrances should be …

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 …

House Amalia is a house for children that can also be used by adults. When closed, it can be entered via a cat door that corresponds to the silhouette of the family cat. When open it is a playhouse or, with its stretched foil roof, the setting for a meal on a large table.

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 starting point of the project are contradicting claims and ambiguities by the clients about the exact position of the extension. The result is a building with alternating locations and contradicting typologies. From now on, the user alone determines his building. By rotating the building, he …

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 …

A barrier-free renovation of a monument and the associated expansion with an elevator tower with an escape staircase inevitably disrupt the historical ensemble. So how do you make a banal technical structure disappear in a historically significant place? The new structural elements of the elevator …

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 …

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 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 …