Kulturbahnhof Aalen Cultural Heart / a+r Architekten

Kulturbahnhof Aalen Cultural Heart / a+r Architekten

Textual content description offered by the architects. The brand new Kulturbahnhof Aalen brings collectively Aalen’s industrial historical past and twenty-first-century structure. With nice sensitivity, the historic constructing fragments have been efficiently built-in into the present-day structure. Prior to now, the world now often called Aalen’s Stadtoval was occupied, amongst different issues, by railway tracks. As a part of the inner-city enlargement, the Kulturbahnhof takes a central place: the constructing, which now accommodates a cinema, a theatre, the music college, high-quality operate halls for cultural occasions, and premises for catering, is meant to have a radiant impact all through the area.

After a fireplace in 2014, fragments of a number of historic teams of buildings with a particular sandstone façade and quick cross gables may nonetheless be discovered on the location. The guiding thought behind the design was to rigorously protect this heritage and to additional develop it right into a forward-looking cultural heart for the twenty first century.

The extensively destroyed façade was changed in a stylized method utilizing coloured fair-faced concrete — and the place doable, the historic character was revived. The roofs of the short-side gables had been additionally rebuilt in accordance with the historic design. The longitudinal gable, against this, adopted a distinct idea: it was changed by an elongated cuboid-shaped quantity clad in folded perforated plate, thereby making a spatial reference to the city edges of the neighboring space to the south. In distinction to the historic sandstone façade, which has a decorative, handcrafted, and large look, the superimposed cuboid is easy and restrained.

The historic façade gives the shell of a beneficiant area. New bins had been positioned inside this fully gutted area, zoning the inside for various makes use of. These bins additionally assist and brace the brand new load-bearing construction. The massive halls and the general public makes use of are housed within the previous constructing. The rooms of the music college and the theatre workshops are housed within the new quantity, the cuboid. These rooms “serving” cultural manufacturing and training symbolically arch over the present levels for the culturally public. It was vital to us to create an genuine and impartial ambiance for the totally different cultural venues with historic elements similar to supplies, home windows, and visual roof development.

In line with the city of Aalen, the now shared constructing for the various cultural venues, which had been beforehand unfold throughout a number of areas, is anticipated to contribute to optimizing sources, pooling synergies, and guaranteeing value financial savings in the long run.