Built movable garden office /// Kalhöfer-Korschildgen

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 …

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, 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 …

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 …

City Administration Monheim:

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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 …

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

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 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 …

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 …

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 …