Zeitschrift
archithese 6.2009
Nachhaltigkeit
Several generations of architects have worked on the Dome-Römerberg part of Frankfurt am Main. Currently the traces of the 1970s, the Technisches Rathaus and the Historisches Museum, are to be eliminated for the sake of a small-scale ensemble that simulates the Middle Age craftsman’s city.
Reconstruction or new construction – this debate was already conducted thirty years ago – and finally led to the construction of the Römerberg East Row finished in 1986. In 1978 the city council had decided against a planned contemporary solution, meanwhile once again encouraging architects in the 1980 Dome-Römerberg competition – out of which the Schirn Cultural Complex arose – to work out alternatives to pseudo-historical reconstruction. The proposal by Adolf Natalini and Superstudio, which would have rendered superimposed layers of time readable, was unrivalled. The Florence office made a theme out of the rigid grid of the underground garage, which filled up the site in the interim, as well as the historic structure of the Old Town lanes. The proposal was „one of the most beautiful architectural poems brought forth by recent architectural history“, as judged by Oswald Mathias Ungers at the time. Nonetheless, in the end a historical, photograph-based image won out, classified with the warning by the State Historical Monuments Commissioner Gottfried Kiesow as a „document of the times for the 8th decade of the 20th century“. Nonetheless, one must concede that most of the tourists who drink their apple cider in front of the sunlit East Row hardly notice any difference between the original and the falsification. And the people of Frankfurt join the tourists, as well.
Today a reconstruction exaltation is on the rampage in Germany – whether in the inner cities of Frankfurt or Dresden, whether in Berlin, Braunschweig, Hanover or Potsdam. Here the castles, which once so strongly affected the cityscape, are planned to be reconstructed as backdrop façades containing new functions. The desire for the renewed resurrection of destroyed buildings has long since spread to milestones of the Classical Modern, as proven by the debate surrounding Walter Gropius’s master building in Dessau.
Meanwhile, whoever has visited the newly reconstructed Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe or the L’Esprit Nouveau Pavilion by Le Corbusier in Bologna may not be able to categorically reject reconstructed buildings.
The authors varyingly focus upon a spectrum that stretches between reconstruction and adaptation. Buildings are also discussed that show how traditional architectural elements can be quoted – such as the examples by the historicist Carl Schäfer, the contemporary settlements by the office of Krier & Kohl or the Gothic Revival by FAT for a school of art in the Dutch city of Boxtel.
The editors
02 Editorial
Architektur Aktuell
14 Thomas Schütte: Haus in Südfrankreich | Carsten Krohn
20 Wiedemann/Mettler: Wohnhaus Campodels, Chur | Judith Raeber
Nachhaltigkeit
28 Baby steps and giant leaps - Strategies for the Sustainable Turn | Klaus Töpfer
34 Superlabel in Erklärungsnot: Die Karriere des Minergie-Standards | Hansjürg Leibundgut
36 Mut zur Lücke: Minimum Impact House - Nachhaltiges Bauen als Essenz von Architektur | Hans Drexler, Marc Guinand, Stefan Jauslin
42 Mission erfüllt: Verwaltungsgebäude der Stiftung Marburger Medien | Hubertus Adam
46 Masdar: The City of Future | Norman Foster
50 Ecocity de Luxe: Die Retortenstadt Masdar City | Christoph Gunsser
52 Nachhaltiges Bauen beginnt nicht beim Neubau: Über die energetische Sanierung baulichen Altbestands | Verena Doerfler im Gespräch mit Johannes Hengstenberg
56 Re: Going around in Circles: Regimes of Waste | Marc Angélil, Cary Siress
62 Natürliche Faszinationen: Anzeichen einer «Physiologischen Architektur» | Hannes Mayer
66 «Tropical Architecture»: Anfänge nachhaltiger Architektur | Susanne Kohte
72 Klimakapseln: Fünf Thesen zu Architektur und Klimawandel | Friedrich von Borries
Rubriken
82 Interview: «Verdichtung als kulturelle Aufgabe» | Margarete von Lupin im Gespräch mit em2n
88 Ausstellung: Martin Elsaesser im DAM Frankfurt
94 Neues aus der Industrie
102 Bücher
104 Jahresregister 2009
111 Lieferbare Hefte
112 Vorschau und Impressum
Reconstruction or new construction – this debate was already conducted thirty years ago – and finally led to the construction of the Römerberg East Row finished in 1986. In 1978 the city council had decided against a planned contemporary solution, meanwhile once again encouraging architects in the 1980 Dome-Römerberg competition – out of which the Schirn Cultural Complex arose – to work out alternatives to pseudo-historical reconstruction. The proposal by Adolf Natalini and Superstudio, which would have rendered superimposed layers of time readable, was unrivalled. The Florence office made a theme out of the rigid grid of the underground garage, which filled up the site in the interim, as well as the historic structure of the Old Town lanes. The proposal was „one of the most beautiful architectural poems brought forth by recent architectural history“, as judged by Oswald Mathias Ungers at the time. Nonetheless, in the end a historical, photograph-based image won out, classified with the warning by the State Historical Monuments Commissioner Gottfried Kiesow as a „document of the times for the 8th decade of the 20th century“. Nonetheless, one must concede that most of the tourists who drink their apple cider in front of the sunlit East Row hardly notice any difference between the original and the falsification. And the people of Frankfurt join the tourists, as well.
Today a reconstruction exaltation is on the rampage in Germany – whether in the inner cities of Frankfurt or Dresden, whether in Berlin, Braunschweig, Hanover or Potsdam. Here the castles, which once so strongly affected the cityscape, are planned to be reconstructed as backdrop façades containing new functions. The desire for the renewed resurrection of destroyed buildings has long since spread to milestones of the Classical Modern, as proven by the debate surrounding Walter Gropius’s master building in Dessau.
Meanwhile, whoever has visited the newly reconstructed Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe or the L’Esprit Nouveau Pavilion by Le Corbusier in Bologna may not be able to categorically reject reconstructed buildings.
The authors varyingly focus upon a spectrum that stretches between reconstruction and adaptation. Buildings are also discussed that show how traditional architectural elements can be quoted – such as the examples by the historicist Carl Schäfer, the contemporary settlements by the office of Krier & Kohl or the Gothic Revival by FAT for a school of art in the Dutch city of Boxtel.
The editors
02 Editorial
Architektur Aktuell
14 Thomas Schütte: Haus in Südfrankreich | Carsten Krohn
20 Wiedemann/Mettler: Wohnhaus Campodels, Chur | Judith Raeber
Nachhaltigkeit
28 Baby steps and giant leaps - Strategies for the Sustainable Turn | Klaus Töpfer
34 Superlabel in Erklärungsnot: Die Karriere des Minergie-Standards | Hansjürg Leibundgut
36 Mut zur Lücke: Minimum Impact House - Nachhaltiges Bauen als Essenz von Architektur | Hans Drexler, Marc Guinand, Stefan Jauslin
42 Mission erfüllt: Verwaltungsgebäude der Stiftung Marburger Medien | Hubertus Adam
46 Masdar: The City of Future | Norman Foster
50 Ecocity de Luxe: Die Retortenstadt Masdar City | Christoph Gunsser
52 Nachhaltiges Bauen beginnt nicht beim Neubau: Über die energetische Sanierung baulichen Altbestands | Verena Doerfler im Gespräch mit Johannes Hengstenberg
56 Re: Going around in Circles: Regimes of Waste | Marc Angélil, Cary Siress
62 Natürliche Faszinationen: Anzeichen einer «Physiologischen Architektur» | Hannes Mayer
66 «Tropical Architecture»: Anfänge nachhaltiger Architektur | Susanne Kohte
72 Klimakapseln: Fünf Thesen zu Architektur und Klimawandel | Friedrich von Borries
Rubriken
82 Interview: «Verdichtung als kulturelle Aufgabe» | Margarete von Lupin im Gespräch mit em2n
88 Ausstellung: Martin Elsaesser im DAM Frankfurt
94 Neues aus der Industrie
102 Bücher
104 Jahresregister 2009
111 Lieferbare Hefte
112 Vorschau und Impressum
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