Built garden office to roll away /// Kalhöfer-Korschildgen

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 …

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 …

City Administration Monheim:

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The social life of the clients, who like to cook and not just for themselves, is expressed by a multifunctional spatial structure that combines the functions of stairs, kitchen and dining table. An almost 9 m long dining table that can be pulled out of the volume reacts to the changing space …

The renovation and office reconstruction of the old town hall with new lift tower and staircase is finished Division of the coats of arms on the lift tower 0 Herzogtum Westfalen 1 Brilon 2 Geseke 3 Rüthen 4 Werl 5 Arnsberg 6 Marsberg 7 Volkmarsen 8 Medebach 9 Attendorn 10 Olpe 11 Menden 12 …

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 …

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 …

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Exhibition architecture Stone Age Museum Landau Completion 10.19

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

… 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, …

Building and context. How do you make a building disappear whose dimensions contradict the small-scale surroundings? The oversized volume is broken up, parts are hidden under an ascending orchard meadow and thus put into perspective. The large halls are freed and turned into musical sculptures in a …

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 …

The Kastenhof in Landau an der Isar, which was renovated and converted as part of a museum conversion in the 1990s, was to receive a new permanent exhibition. The exceptional architectural quality of the building required careful handling of the existing building. The exhibition architecture should …

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 …

Wedinghausen Monastery was one of the most important monasteries in Westphalia. It was founded around 1170 and disbanded in 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars. As a result, parts of the building were destroyed, demolished or used for other purposes. The renovation under the preservation order had the …

The “Rheinpegel_Raumlabor” project stages references to the Rhine flowing past with haptic, atmospheric and literary means. In the sense of a laboratory, the architectural intervention is about the changeability of an existing room in Bonn’s Villa Ingenohl by the visitor. An …

The CINENOVA Arthouse-Kino is one of the most renowned cinematic cultural sites in Cologne. The hidden urban location in the middle of a heterogeneous industrial park made it necessary to create a special “address” and appropriate route to the cinema. As a harbinger of the inner cinema …

Renovation and conversion of office space Extension building Old town hall Arnsberg Completion 12.19 Construction of a concrete lift tower and new emergency staircase Old town hall Arnsberg as part of the town hall renovation. Barrier-free and handicapped accessible development

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We have worked on many projects since the Kalhöfer-Korschildgen office was founded. We plan and implement cultural projects for public clients: archives, libraries, museums, cinemas, buildings for tourism, or office and service landscapes. We have many years of experience in building in existing …

Based on the seasonal temperature fluctuations, work is being done on the compression and expansion of space. The two-layer structure of the outer skin can be dissolved depending on the temperature and used to expand the space in the terrace area. The expansion is linked to a simultaneous internal …

Following on from Mies van der Rohe’s ideas of “the greatest freedom in the type of use” or “flowing space”, the project reinterprets the floor plans of his residential building “Weissenhof 14-20” in the Weissenhofsiedlung against the background of today’s techniques and materials. Typed, mobi …

Kalhöfer - Korschildgen mit Büro für Architektur, Stuttgart Ein typisches Haus im Herault in einer engen Gasse. Das Dorf steht unter Denkmalschutz. Das Haus ist ein Ensemble zweier Häuser, von denen eines nur noch in Teilen existiert und den Freiraum für den intakten Teil abgibt. Absurderweise ist dies …

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 mobile information and culture pavilion is now owned by the architect and will be available to interested cultural institutions for events from 2021 after a moderate renovation. The analogue and media appearance of the mobile pavilion will then be adaptable to the individual needs of the users. …

From February 11th, 2010 to March 17th, 2010 various projects from our office can be seen in the international travelling exhibition (Shanghai, Oman, Seoul, Berlin) on landscape architecture “naturetecture / naturtektur” in Düsseldorf.

A school is to be built on a former fruit field. Instead of giving the building a presence, we use the camouflage strategy. We want an orchard that goes over the school. We want nature. The general uses of the school are under the “green carpet”. The class buildings are packed with …

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 bridge, not a major structural planning task due to its small span, was planned with its shell as a large orientation and information body, which at the beginning of the “route of the tool” indicates its most important stations with themed motifs.

The works of the internationally renowned artist Gerd Arntz, who was born in Remscheid, are shown in urban space along a linear park. The large picture panels are based on the graphic and statistical work of the artist and refer to the location and its historical context.

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 …

The pavilion is a viewing platform with a view of the typical Bergische landscape and above all sun - shadow object with motifs that remind us of the importance of Remscheid as a tool town.

Kalhöfer-Korschildgen Architekten - Das Büro wird aufgelöst Wir trauern um unseren lieben Freund und Kollegen, der in der Nacht vom 21. auf den 22. Januar 2023 verstorben ist Gerhard Kalhöfer Er hat für die Architektur leidenschaftlich gelebt, hat so vieles Besonderes geschaffen und ist viel zu früh …

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

A Trip to the Countryside:

The requirement for a house that was purely north-facing was not more space, but a different quality for existing buildings. The mobility of a floor, outer wall module to the south side results in an ambiguous inside-outside relationship: the functions located in the outside wall become …

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.

Am Rand der Altstadt gelegen bietet das typische Bergische Fachwerkhaus aus seinem Dachgeschoß einen phantastischen Blick auf die Kirche und das Zentrum der Altstadt. Das Dach ist nicht ausgebaut und hat im Inneren eine typische Optik von Sparren und rauer Dachverschalung. Aus denkmalpflegerischen …

„Multispace“ Für die neuen Arbeitswelten der Stadt Monheim steht ein vielfältiges Arbeitsplatzangebot im Focus der Planungen. Ein unterschiedliches Angebot sichert im Gegensatz zu einer Monostruktur langfristig die Nutzung der Bereiche. Mit dem „Multispace“ entsteht keine eindeutige Büroform, sondern ei …

The spatial narrowness of a row house volume is resolved by the targeted perforation of the room envelope with the help of a roller shutter system. The disposition of a diverse, switchable “in-between space” enables different spatial readings and ways of using the living space, both internally and ext …

Wir trauern um unseren lieben Freund und Kollegen, der in der Nacht vom 21. auf den 22. Januar 2023 verstorben ist Gerhard Kalhöfer Er hat für die Architektur leidenschaftlich gelebt, hat so vieles Besonderes geschaffen und ist viel zu früh von uns gegangen. Stefan Korschildgen