Built mobile Küche /// 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 …

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 …

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 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. …

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 …

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 …

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 Trip to the Countryside:

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rooftop Talks:

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …