Bauakdemie

Bauakademie

The Bauakademie in Berlin started as an architecture School, founded by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1836. The former 'hybrid' like building set new standards in its functionality, aesthetics, and materiality. Never before has there been a multifunctional building with its raw unclad look. Not only in its materiality but also in terms of urban planning was the Bauakademie the keystone of the surrounding ensemble. Conscious handling of Schinkel's destroyed legacy is indispensable for an adequate and yet contemporary interpretation of this historical location. Architecturally, historically and socially - a place in which a meaningful and sophisticated use, but also a restrained monumentality is required.

Concrete – a very expressive material that not only gives expression to its appearance but also its actual strength. A monolith is created whose monumentality seems to come to rest. The monolith consolidates its location through the surrounding gap. Concrete is shown in its complete honesty. The walls are made of concrete – from outside to inside! For this purpose, a lightweight concrete being is used, which unfolds its ability to possess heat-insulating effects. A building to exhibit, mediate, and experience architecture. Not just a place to see things, but also a place of inspiration, experience, and culture.

The Bauakademie is a pure exposed concrete construction to create a unified, monumental, monolithic, powerful, restrained, unobtrusive, sculptural, plastic, and simple aesthetics. Its entrance is marked with an oblique cut at the front-facing side of the concrete Cube. The entrance opens to the atrium - the main room of the monolith. The staircase is situated next to the atrium which leads to the upper levels. Those are each equipped with two galleries, which provide the connecting spaces in between a natural flow of movement for the visitors. On the top floor, there are two outdoor rooms, the sculpture patio and a patio with a water area in the middle. In each case, the galleries generate targeted visual relationships with the outwards and the balconies towards the atrium inwards.