Detail of the project ed. 2020

VON M – COM­MU­NI­TY HOUSE AND CHRIST CHURCH

Design­er Prof. Den­nis Mueller
Loca­tion Fried­hof­str. 1, Kehl, Germany
Design Team

Már­cia Nunes, Timm Radt, Marcin Wasag
Year 2017
Pho­to credits

Zooey Braun, Stuttgart, Germany

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Project descrip­tion

The old­est church in Kehl, the clas­si­cist Chris­tuskirche, should be extend­ed to a mul­ti-func­­tion­al parish cen­tre through refur­bish­ment and the con­struc­tion of a new parish hall.
The mas­ter plan tar­gets a rearrange­ment of the for­mer vil­lage square in Kehl, the strength­en­ing of the church in its pres­ence in the urban space and as an ele­ment of iden­ti­ty. By the revi­tal­iza­tion of the church­es west entrance a cen­tral square of the parish is estab­lished with access to both parts of the build­ing. There­by a coher­ent space con­tin­u­um is gen­er­at­ed that con­nects the new and the old as well as the inte­ri­or and the exterior.
The archi­tec­ture of the com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre is deter­mined by a con­sis­tent, clear geo­met­ric order, pre­cise details, the use of light and a pure and com­pre­hen­si­ble use of materials.The new build­ing was bricked with min­er­al-insu­lat­ed ver­ti­cal­ly per­fo­rat­ed bricks. Some of the stones were only par­tial­ly slimed with lime, while oth­ers were scraped with filler. The inter­play of the bricks, their final treat­ment and the chang­ing light sit­u­a­tions in the house thus results in a live­ly inter­play of dif­fer­ent­ly struc­tured surfaces.
The restora­tion of the old sub­stance of the church was aimed at recon­struct­ing the orig­i­nal shape and chro­matic­i­ty of the clas­si­cist church in order to restore the build­ing to its orig­i­nal qual­i­ty and iden­ti­ty. Flex­i­ble seat­ing, the imple­men­ta­tion of prin­ci­ples as mobile “pieces of fur­ni­ture” and the use of a mobile wall, which can be moved and opened along the lon­gi­tu­di­nal axis of the church, guar­an­tee max­i­mum flex­i­bil­i­ty of the church space. All fix­tures were con­sis­tent­ly kept in nat­ur­al oak and thus cre­ate a sub­tle con­trast to the exist­ing build­ing, which was returned to its light, mono­chrome colouring.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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