KUNSTFORUM INGELHEIM
Conversion, refurbishment and extension of a listed building ensemble

The Kunstforum Ingelheim was built in 1861 as the town hall of Nieder-Ingelheim. It has been used for exhibitions since the 1950s. It has become nationally known through the International Days of Ingelheim – art exhibitions that are firmly anchored in the cultural landscape of Rhineland-Palatinate and are organised every year with the support of Boehringer Ingelheim.

Together with the market square and fountain, the former infant school and a late Baroque residential building, the Old Town Hall forms a listed ensemble on Francois-Lachenal-Platz, close to the Imperial Palace.

As part of the necessary refurbishment, a new foyer and an additional exhibition space under the courtyard were added to the ensemble. The new underground exhibition space complements and enlarges the Kunstforum to a total of five exhibition rooms.

The new entrance to the Kunstforum is via the inner courtyard into the new foyer with ticket sales and museum shop. The listed pavilion adjoining the foyer was converted into a café with a catering kitchen and seating in the inner courtyard.

In order to provide barrier-free access to all levels, the existing staircase was redesigned and a lift was installed.

The exhibition rooms were given a neutral interior design, particularly suitable for temporary exhibitions. A flexible arrangement of darkening elements enables both daylight exhibitions and the complete panelling of the window openings as a hanging surface.

A particular challenge was to create a ventilation and air conditioning system that meets the high requirements of international lenders, despite the limited space available.

STADTTHEATER ASCHAFFENBURG
Conversion, restoration and extension of a listed theatre building.

The Aschaffenburg Municipal Theatre was founded in a three-gabled Renaissance building during the reign of Grand Duke Carl Theodor von Dalberg. The building never had its own representative theatre façade. The architect has also remained unknown to this day. All that is known is that the building was opened in 1811. The theatre experienced an eventful history with many conversions and changes of use. In 1944, it was badly damaged in an air raid. However, it was put back into operation as a temporary theatre in 1947.

The area around the theatre had changed considerably as a result of the destruction caused by the war. In place of the dense old town development, an open area had emerged that was used as a car park for many years. In addition, the new town hall building introduced a new urban scale to the old town centre. The construction of an underground car park finally freed up the car park for new uses.

In 2000, the city council decided to carry out a complete refurbishment of the theatre instead of the individual measures that had become necessary time and again. At the same time, the theatre square was to be redesigned. The decision was made in favour of an expert opinion process with the participation of the citizens.

In 2001, we were commissioned with the planning together with the Wolfgang Lautenschläger office. The first construction phase was a two-storey city loggia that closed off the theatre square towards the town hall. It also included access to the underground car park and a small ice cream parlour. The theatre square was built in the next construction phase. It was surfaced with light grey granite and a large horizontal sundial. A small watercourse divides the square into a sunny and a shady area. The square offers a pleasant and consumption-free outdoor space. In our eyes, it is the ‘living room’ of the Dalberg quarter.

The third construction phase concerns the theatre itself. In addition to the basic refurbishment, a second foyer was added to the upper floor and rooms were added for the new theatre restaurant.

The façade facing the square, which had been missing since the destruction of the war, was completed and topped off with a wide projecting canopy that corresponds with the roof of the city loggia.

With its façade dating from different periods (Renaissance, Classicism, reconstruction, present day), the municipal theatre makes the eventful history of the theatre itself visible. The theatre was reopened in 2011 to celebrate its 200th anniversary.

BÖRSENVEREIN DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDEL
Conversion and extension of three listed buildings

Competition, 1st prize

The new home of the Börsenverein is located in Frankfurt’s city centre between Braubachstraße and Berliner Straße. It consists of three listed old buildings that are now part of the city’s familiar image. These three buildings and a new building house the entire Börsenverein group: the Börsenverein itself, the Gesellschaft für Ausstellungen und Messen and the Marketing- und Vertriebsgesellschaft (MVB) as well as other Börsenverein institutions.

They will be carefully adapted to their new use through refurbishment, remodelling, two extensions inside the block and connecting bridges.

Despite their different appearances, the two buildings in Braubachstrasse date back to 1926 and are part of the first major redevelopment of the old city centre, which was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. In contrast, the house in Berliner Strasse was only completed in 1956. It symbolises the return of white modernism after the Second World War and pays homage to Le Corbusier’s ‘Pavillon Suisse’ in Paris.

EXHIBITION ‘MENSCH! SCULPTUR’
as part of the International Days Ingelheim, Kunstforum Ingelheim

To mark the completion of our refurbished and extended art forum, the sculpture exhibition ‘Mensch! Sculpture’ was opened as part of the Ingelheim International Days.

The exhibition architecture and the composition of the individual sculptures were created in close collaboration with the curator Dr Ulrich Luckhardt.

The exhibition ‘Mensch! Sculpture’ shows works by 12 important sculptors who deal with the theme of the human body. The 61 exhibits made of marble, bronze or terracotta are by the artists Alexander Archipenko, Max Beckmann, Rudolf Belling, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Georg Kolbe, Henri Laurens, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Aristide Maillol, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin.

Liebieghaus, Museum Alter Plastik

Conversion, restoration and extension of a listed building ensemble.

Noldehaus in Seebüll

Competitive multiple comission. Finalist.

Museumsvorplatz

Design for a new entrance situation for the Museum of Wiesbaden.

Museum Huelsmann, Kunstgewerbesammlung der Stadt Bielefeld

Conversion, restoration and extension of a listed villa

Geschäftshaus Neue Mainzer Straße

Conversion, restoration and extension of a listed building by P. Wallot

STADTWERKE
Conversion, refurbishment and extension of the Stadtwerke customer centre from 1954

The project goes back to a limited realisation competition won in the 1990s. The old customer centre was built in 1954 on a destroyed inner city site on the newly aligned Kurt-Schumacher-Straße.

The old reinforced concrete skeleton construction clad in natural stone did not meet the requirements of modern office space in terms of building technology or utilisation. In addition, an increase in office space was required, which led to an extension of the old building.

Rathaus Nordbau, Stadtkämmerei Paulsplatz

Conversion and restoration of a listed administrative building

Haus Giersch, Museum regionaler Kunst

Conversion and restoration of a listed villa

Ausstellung Museum für Kommunikation

Exhibition of wartime letters

Polytechnische Gesellschaft

Renovation of the headquarter of the Polytechnic association

Weilburg-Orangerie

Café and concert hall in the orangery of the palace garden of Weilburg

Heimatmuseum

Conversion and restoration of a listed half-timbered house

Staatspark Hanau Wilhelmsbad

Conversion and restoration of a listed historic resort of 1777

Vinothek Kloster Eberbach

Vinothek in the listed former wine press house of the monastery

INSTITUTE FOR CITY HISTORY IN THE FORMER CARMELITE MONASTERY
Conversion and renovation of the listed monastery complex

The former Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt am Main was founded in the 13th century and extended as a late Gothic monastery complex in the 15th century. Large parts of the monastery building were destroyed during the Second World War. After reconstruction and restoration in the 1950s, the monastery is now home to the Institute of City History.

The Institute for City History, formerly the ‘City Archive’, is divided into several buildings with up to four storeys, in which a reference library with reading room, exhibition/seminar and lecture rooms are housed alongside the administrative rooms. The cloister, refectory and parlatorium now serve as event venues.

The overall refurbishment covers the façades and interiors as well as the outdoor facilities. The event rooms were brought up to the latest technical standards in terms of lighting, acoustics and burglar resistance and equipped with contemporary furnishings.

The former Carmelite monastery is a listed building. The murals by Jörg Ratgeb in the cloister and refectory are among the most important pre-baroque murals in Germany.