Built city administration /// Kalhöfer-Korschildgen

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 …

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 …

City Administration Monheim:

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“Arbeits_spuren” is a route along the traces of work in an industrial region. The existing route leads through a typical section of the tool town of Remscheid and its landscape: from small industry to large-scale industry, from natural space to urban landscape. In addition to the direct experience of …

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 …

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 …

… There was a writing room (scriptorium) in Wedinghausen early on, in which books for liturgy and study were made. This was a laborious technical and intellectual achievement. You needed the parchment of entire flocks of sheep or a lot of cattle or calf hides and rare color pigments, gold, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

The “Blue House” project consists of two parts: the renovation of a half-timbered house from 1730 and a contemporary expansion with your multifunctional room. The client is a regional museum that houses its media library and administration there. The old building was freed from spatial …

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 …