Detail of the project ed. 2020

NAGLER ARCHITEK­TEN – REN­O­VA­TION OF ST MARTHAS CHURCH

Design­er	Flo­ri­an Nagler
Loca­tion	Nürn­berg
Design Team	Flo­ri­an Nagler Matthias Müller Nina Burri Iris Sitbon
Year	2018
Pho­to credits	PK Odessa Co, Munich (Pho­to 1, 2, 3, 4,5 Exter­nal, pho­to 1, 2, 3 Internal) Georg Rieger, Nürn­berg (Pho­to 5 Internal) Pla­nungs­büro Zeis­er GmbH, Nürn­berg (Pho­to 4 Internal)

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

In 2014 St. Martha’s Church in Nürn­berg burns down in unex­plained cir­cum­stances, sev­er­al cen­turies after it was inau­gu­rat­ed in 1385. The his­tor­i­cal roof struc­ture over the nave is lost to the fire. In our entry to the ensu­ing com­pe­ti­tion we sug­gest that the church be rebuilt so that its orig­i­nal exter­nal con­tours are restored. By con­trast, in inter­play with the his­toric nat­ur­al stone struc­ture, a new space is cre­at­ed inside char­ac­ter­ized by a con­tem­po­rary wood­en struc­ture that takes on an acoustic role in addi­tion to a pure­ly struc­tur­al one. This ful­fils require­ments for the spe­cial acoustics of the church’s orig­i­nal inte­ri­or to be restored. The new roof struc­ture is built exclu­sive­ly from untreat­ed sol­id wood.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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