Opus 86 (Hardcover)

Frank R. Werner

ISBN 10: 393256586X / ISBN 13: 9783932565861

Editore: Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach, 2021

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Hardcover. From the 1960s to the 1980s, new university buildings were regarded as real showcase projects in Germany. With their help, it was hoped to catch up with the international building scene again after the severe destruction of the Second World War. However, deficiencies in the technical execution and also in the subsequent building maintenance often led to the fact that in the course of the years serious structural problems appeared more and more frequently in the former showcase projects, which in some cases even led to the demolition of former demonstrative projects. This opus volume presents such an aging university ensemble on the old campus of the RWTH Aachen, which could not only be saved, but also embodies a renaissance of high-quality urban development and sustainable architecture. This balancing act is thanks to the architects and engineers of the renowned SSP AG from Bochum. First of all, they used the building task to significantly reorganise the old campus area in terms of urban development and to uncover lost urban references. In a next step, they demolished a dilapidated multi-storey car park and built the new technical centre, the Technikum on its foundations. In doing so, they followed the highest construction standards and sustainability strategies down to the smallest detail. However, the architects were able to retain the neighbouring, defective high-rise building of the so-called Sammelbau of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. They stripped the high-rise down to its bare supporting structure and then refurbished it to the highest technical and ecological standards, just like the Technikum. In times when terms such as sustainability or building ecology are being used in an almost inflationary manner, the project presented here is a real model, because it not only speaks of high standards, but has in fact implemented the highest standards and because it has given the concept of re-use (ie: the recycling of old, dilapidated building substance, a sensuously appealing structural form and a long-term new utility). This Opus volume presents an aging university ensemble on the old campus of the RWTHAachen, which could not only be saved, but also embodies a renaissance of high-quality urban development and sustainable architecture. This balancing act is thanks to the architects and engineers of the renowned SSP AG from Bochum. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Opus 86 (Hardcover)
• Editore: Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 393256586X
• ISBN 13: 9783932565861
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

From the 1960s to the 1980s, new university buildings were regarded as real showcase projects in

Germany. With their help, it was hoped to catch up with the international building scene again after

the severe destruction of the Second World War. However, deficiencies in the technical execution and

also in the subsequent building maintenance often led to the fact that in the course of the years

serious structural problems appeared more and more frequently in the former showcase projects,

which in some cases even led to the demolition of former demonstrative projects.

This Opus volume presents an aging university ensemble on the old campus of the RWTH

Aachen (Germany), which could not only be saved, but also embodies a renaissance of

high-quality urban development and sustainable architecture. This balancing act is thanks to

the architects and engineers of the renowned SSP AG from Bochum.

In times when terms such as sustainability or building ecology are being used in an almost

inflationary manner, the project presented here is a real model, because it not only speaks of

high standards, but has in fact implemented the highest standards – and because it has given the

concept of Re-use, i. e. the recycling of old, dilapidated building substance, a sensuously appealing

structural form and a long-term new utility.

Informazioni sull?autore

Frank R. Werner lives in Münster (Germany) and was professor of history and architectural

theory at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart from 1990 until 1994 and director

of the Institut für Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie at the Bergische Universit‚t in Wuppertal

from 1993 until his retirement in 2012.

Jörg Hempel is a freelance architectural photographer and lives in Aachen (Germany). Since 2007 he has taught

architectural photography at the Fachhochschule Bochum, since 2015 also at the Fachhochschule Aachen and

since 2019 at the Technische Hochschule Köln.