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Edition Axel Menges GmbH Esslinger Straße 24 D-70736 Stuttgart-Fellbach tel. +49-0711-574759 fax +49-0711-5747 84 [email protected] www.AxelMenges.de Distributors Brockhaus Commission Kreidlerstraße 9 D-70806 Kornwestheim Germany tel. +49-7154-1327-33 fax +49-7154-1327-13 [email protected] Gazelle Book Services White Cross Mills Hightown Lancaster LA1 4XS United Kingdom tel. +44-1524-68765 fax +44-1524-63232 [email protected] National Book Network 15200 NBN Way Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214 USA tel. +1-800-4626420 fax +1-800-3384550 [email protected] Opus 60 Steidle+Partner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven With an introduction by Gert Kähler and photographs by Christian Richters. 56 pp. with 46 ill., 28 of which in colour, 280 x 300 mm, hard-cover, German / English ISBN 3-932565-60-6 Euro 36.00, sfr 56.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90, $A 68.00 Building on the tip of a tongue of land, with a view of an estuary and the sea in the background – that is always a happy chance for an architect. But for the same reason, for them places like these are definitely also among the hardest to deal with – the associa- tions that well up are much too seductive, much to well-worn: for example, can one more »steamer« be built by water, thus reviving one of the favourite motifs from the early days of modern architec- ture? The new building for the Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, named after Alfred Wegener, the famous geo- scientific pioneer, is near the city centre by the commercial harbour, not far from warehouses and other industrial buildings. The building is not one in which the institution is putting itself on show; for example, you look in vain for a magnificent entrance with an actual or symbolic portal, inviting visitors to step into the building. Like its neighbours, it is just a working building for its 240 employees. But what is striking is the unusual façade: a pattern is made with glazed tiles in white, grey and black, seeming more regular than it actually is. The architects – pictorially speaking – have set up poles at the corners of the plot and stretched fabric between them (they use the word »tweed« when discussing the façade pattern). And in the interior the colour designer Erich Wiesner, whom the Steidle + Partner practice has already been working with for many years now, has given the individual corridor areas, but above all the foyer, a spatially intensive colour structure, made up of few colours – blue, rust-red, yellow, white, anthracite. The effect is unambiguous: a space is not being give a particular atmosphere here, determined by colour, but a spatial structure is accentuated and dynamized. After studying architecture, Gert Kähler first worked in several architecture practices before turning to his present activity as a critic and architectural historian. His publications include the book Architektur als Symbolverfall. Das Dampfermotiv in der Baukunst. Christian Richters studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen. He is one of the most sought-after architectural photographers in Europe today. In the meantime Richters has supplied the photographs for seven Opus books.

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Page 1: Edition Axel Menges GmbH Esslinger Straße 24 D-70736 ...axelmenges.de/buch/Opus_60.pdf · 12 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof, Potsdam-Sanssouci 13 Pfaueninsel, Berlin 14 Sir

Edition Axel Menges GmbH Esslinger Straße 24

D-70736 Stuttgart-Fellbachtel. +49-0711-574759fax [email protected]

Distributors

Brockhaus CommissionKreidlerstraße 9

D-70806 KornwestheimGermany

tel. +49-7154-1327-33fax +49-7154-1327-13

[email protected]

Gazelle Book ServicesWhite Cross Mills

HightownLancaster LA1 4XS

United Kingdomtel. +44-1524-68765fax +44-1524-63232

[email protected]

National Book Network15200 NBN Way

Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214USA

tel. +1-800-4626420fax +1-800-3384550

[email protected]

Opus 60Steidle + Partner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, BremerhavenWith an introduction by Gert Kähler and photographs by ChristianRichters. 56 pp. with 46 ill., 28 of which in colour, 280 x 300 mm,hard-cover, German / EnglishISBN 3-932565-60-6Euro 36.00, sfr 56.00, £ 24.90, US $ 39.90, $A 68.00

Building on the tip of a tongue of land, with a view of an estuaryand the sea in the background – that is always a happy chance foran architect. But for the same reason, for them places like theseare definitely also among the hardest to deal with – the associa-tions that well up are much too seductive, much to well-worn: forexample, can one more »steamer« be built by water, thus revivingone of the favourite motifs from the early days of modern architec-ture?

The new building for the Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- undMeeresforschung, named after Alfred Wegener, the famous geo-scientific pioneer, is near the city centre by the commercial harbour,not far from warehouses and other industrial buildings.

The building is not one in which the institution is putting itselfon show; for example, you look in vain for a magnificent entrancewith an actual or symbolic portal, inviting visitors to step into thebuilding. Like its neighbours, it is just a working building for its 240employees.

But what is striking is the unusual façade: a pattern is made withglazed tiles in white, grey and black, seeming more regular than itactually is. The architects – pictorially speaking – have set up polesat the corners of the plot and stretched fabric between them (theyuse the word »tweed« when discussing the façade pattern).

And in the interior the colour designer Erich Wiesner, whom theSteidle + Partner practice has already been working with for manyyears now, has given the individual corridor areas, but above allthe foyer, a spatially intensive colour structure, made up of fewcolours – blue, rust-red, yellow, white, anthracite. The effect isunambiguous: a space is not being give a particular atmospherehere, determined by colour, but a spatial structure is accentuatedand dynamized.

After studying architecture, Gert Kähler first worked in severalarchitecture practices before turning to his present activity as acritic and architectural historian. His publications include the bookArchitektur als Symbolverfall. Das Dampfermotiv in der Baukunst.Christian Richters studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen. He isone of the most sought-after architectural photographers in Europetoday. In the meantime Richters has supplied the photographs forseven Opus books.

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An der Spitze einer Landzunge zu bauen, mit Blickauf Flußmündung und Meer und einem Hintergrundaus Strand und Hafenindustrie – das zählt zu denGlücksfällen für Architekten. Die Assoziationen pur-zeln nur so, bis hin zu »La Paloma« und dem blondenHans Albers. Aus dem gleichen Grund zählen Ortewie diese aber auch zu den schwierigsten für Archi-tekten – die Assoziationen sind viel zu naheliegend,zu verführerisch, zu verbraucht: Kann man am Meerwirklich noch einen »Dampfer« bauen, und damitnoch einmal eines der Grundmotive der Frühzeit dermodernen Architektur wiederaufleben lassen?

Das Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Mee-resforschung, benannt nach Alfred Wegener, demberühmten Pionier der Geowissenschaften, liegt aufhalbem Wege zwischen der Innnenstadt und demHafen von Bremerhaven hinter dem Deich, lang hin-gestreckt, der Baukörper in seiner Geometrie nichtauf Anhieb zu erkennen.

Das neue Gebäude ist keines, in dem die Institu-tion sich selbst zur Schau stellt; so sucht man auchvergeblich nach einem großartigem Eingang mit tat-sächlichem oder symbolischen Portal, das den Be-su-cher zum Einritt in das Gebäude einlädt. Es istein reines Arbeitshaus für seine 240 Mitarbeiter.

Was aber auffällt, ist die markante Fassade: Ausglasierten Ziegeln in Weiß, Grau und Schwarz wirdein Muster gesetzt, das regelmäßiger erscheint, alses tatsächlich ist. Die Architekten haben – bildlichgesprochen – Pfähle an den Eckpunkten des Grund-stücks aufgestellt und dazwischen einen Stoff ge-spannt (sie sprechen von »Tweed« im Hinblick aufdas Fassadenmuster).

Und im Inneren hat der Farbgestalter Erich Wies-ner den einzelnen Flurbereichen, vor allem aber demFoyer, aus wenigen Farben – blau, rostrot, gelb, weiß,anthrazit, mal als Farbe auf Putz, mal als Ziegeltape-te – eine räumlich intensiv wirkende Farbstruktur ge-geben. Die Wirkung ist eindeutig: Hier wird nicht einRaum in eine bestimmte, durch Farbe definierte Stim-mung versetzt, sondern ein räumliches Gefüge ak-zentuiert und dynamisiert.

Gert Kähler war nach dem Studium der Architekturzunächst in mehreren Architekturbüros tätig, bevor ersich 1976 seiner heutigen Tätigkeit als Kritiker und Ar-chitekturhistoriker zuwandte. Er publizierte unter ande-rem das Buch Architektur als Symbolverfall. Das Damp-fermotiv in der Baukunst. Christian Richters studiertean der Folkwangschule in Essen. Er gehört heute zuden gesuchtetsten Architekturphotographen Europas.

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Opus Architektur in EinzeldarstellungenArchitecture in individual presentations

Herausgeber / Editor: Axel Menges

1 Rudolf Steiner, Goetheanum, Dornach2 Jørn Utzon, Houses in Fredensborg3 Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert, Louisiana

Museum, Humlebæk4 Aurelio Galfetti, Castelgrande, Bellinzona5 Fatehpur Sikri6 Balthasar Neumann, Abteikirche Neresheim7 Henry Hobson Richardson, Glessner House,

Chicago8 Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Palau de la

Música Catalana, Barcelona9 Richard Meier, Stadthaus Ulm

10 Santiago Calatrava, Bahnhof Stadelhofen, Zürich

12 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Charlottenhof , Potsdam-Sanssouci

13 Pfaueninsel, Berlin14 Sir John Soane’s Museum, London15 Enric Miralles, C.N.A.R., Alicante16 Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote17 Dharna Vihara, Ranakpur18 Benjamin Baker, Forth Bridge19 Ernst Gisel, Rathaus Fellbach20 Alfredo Arribas, Marugame Hirai Museum21 Sir Norman Foster and Partners, Commerz-

bank, Frankfurt am Main22 Carlo Scarpa, Museo Canoviano, Possagno23 Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio,

Oak Park24 Kisho Kurokawa, Kuala Lumpur International

Airport25 Steidle + Partner, Universität Ulm West26 Himeji Castle27 Kazuo Shinohara, Centennial Hall, Tokyo28 Alte Völklinger Hütte29 Alsfeld30 LOG ID, BGW Dresden31 Steidle + Partner, Wacker-Haus, München32 Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa33 Neuschwanstein34 Architekten Schweger+Partner, Zentrum für

Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe35 Frank O. Gehry, Energie-Forum-Innovation,

Bad Oeynhausen36 Rafael Moneo, Audrey Jones Beck Building,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston37 Schneider+Schumacher, KPMG-Gebäude,

Leipzig38 Heinz Tesar, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg39 Arup, Hong Kong Station40 Berger+Parkkinen, Die Botschaften der

Nordischen Länder, Berlin41 Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, Halle 3, Messe

Frankfurt42 Heinz Tesar, Christus Hoffnung der Welt, Wien43 Peichl /Achatz / Schumer, Münchner Kammer-

spiele, Neues Haus44 Alfredo Arribas, Seat-Pavillon, Wolfsburg45 Stüler / Strack / Merz, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin46 Kisho Kurokawa, Oita Stadium, Oita, Japan

47 Bolles + Wilson, Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotterdam48 Steidle + Partner, KPMG-Gebäude, München49 Steidle + Partner, Wohnquartier Freischützstraße,

München50 Neufert / Karle + Buxbaum, Ernst-Neufert-Bau,

Darmstadt51 Bolles + Wilson, NORD/LB, Magdeburg52 Brunnert und Partner, Flughafen Leipzig / Halle53 Johannes Peter Hölzinger, Haus in Bad Nauheim54 Egon Eiermann, German Embassy, Washington55 Peter Kulka, Bosch-Haus Heidehof, Stuttgart56 Am Bavariapark, München57 Gerber Architekten, Messe Karlsruhe58 Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux59 Otto Ernst Schweizer, Milchhof, Nürnberg60 Steidle + Partner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut,

Wilhelmshaven

Building on the tip of a tongue of land, with a viewof an estuary and the sea in the background – that isalways a happy chance for an architect. But for thesame reason, for them places like these are definitelyalso among the hardest to deal with – the associa-tions that well up are much too seductive, much towell-worn: for example, can one more »steamer« bebuilt by water, thus reviving one of the favourite motifsfrom the early days of modern architecture?

The new building for the Alfred-Wegener-Institutfür Polar- und Meeresforschung, named after AlfredWegener, the famous geo-scientific pioneer, is nearthe city centre by the commercial harbour, not farfrom warehouses and other industrial buildings.

The building is not one in which the institution isputting itself on show; for example, you look in vainfor a magnificent entrance with an actual or symbolicportal, inviting visitors to step into the building. Likeits neighbours, it is just a working building for its 240employees.

But what is striking is the unusual façade: a pat-tern is made with glazed tiles in white, grey and black,seeming more regular than it actually is. The archi-tects – pictorially speaking – have set up poles at thecorners of the plot and stretched fabric between them(they use the word »tweed« when discussing the fa-çade pattern).

And in the interior the colour designer Erich Wies-ner, whom the Steidle + Partner practice has alreadybeen working with for many years now, has given theindividual corridor areas, but above all the foyer, aspatially intensive colour structure, made up of fewcolours – blue, rust-red, yellow, white, anthracite.The effect is unambiguous: a space is not being givea particular atmosphere here, determined by colour,but a spatial structure is accentuated and dynamized.

After studying architecture, Gert Kähler first workedin several architecture practices before turning to hispresent activity as a critic and architectural historian.His publications include the book Architektur als Sym-bolverfall. Das Dampfermotif in der Baukunst. ChristianRichters studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen. Heis one of the most sought-after architectural photog-raphers in Europe today. In the meantime Richtershas supplied the photographs for seven Opus books.

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2. Lageplan.

2. Site plan.

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Haus A

Haus B

Haus C

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3–8. Grundrisse (Ebenen 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

3–8. Floor plans (levels 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

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1. Gesamtansicht von Südosten.

1. General view from the southeast.

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2. General view from the northeast.3. General view from the southeast.

2. Gesamtansicht von Nordosten.3. Gesamtansicht von Südosten.

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4. Partial view from the west.5. General view from the southwest.

4. Teilansicht von Westen.5. Gesamtansicht von Südwesten.