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BUILDING
 
 
Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park und Marktplatz
Townhall Scharnhauser Park
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DESIGNER
 
 
J.Mayer.H
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DESCRIPTION
 
The stadt.haus is located at the center of Scharnhauser Park, a former American military site next to Stuttgart airport. It is a multifunctional public building unifying municipal administration, civil services, a public library, an art gallery, classrooms for music lessons and evening school, a wedding room, office space, sports facilities and a multippurpouse hall. This combination of different public services generates synergetic effects provoking programmatic and visual transparency. Spatially the entire building is considered as large, open public space with inlays of certain core elements. Floating within a space for mutual or strategic communication, these enclosed boxes structure the interior layout of the building. From the main square to the panorama deck on the roof, the stadt.haus interlocks with its context through cutouts and terraces. These open air spaces remain accessible beyond the main opening hours and therefore serve as spatial and programmatic extensions. Light and water animations are an integral part of the stadt.haus and include a subtle relationship between nature and technology. Framing the main entrance visitors will have to walk through a computer animated artificial rain dripping from underneath the flat cantilevered roof.The stadt.haus and square construct a new public building prototype by offering simultaneity of city life in real, mediated and virtual space.


Pitter Patterns - A computer animated rain curtain
Framing the main entrance visitors will have to walk through a computer animated artificial rain dripping from the underneath the flat cantilevered roof. This water curtain facade becomes a secret information producer treating the entry elevation as ephemeral skin.
Wind Light
Wind light is a light installation next to the stadt.haus. Hanging glass fibre cables project points of light onto the ground, animated by the movement of the wind. Built-in webcams collect all light points with a surveillance software and send a life image of its dynamic constellation into the stadt.haus and onto the website of the City of Ostfildern.


Edited by J. MAYER H. Architects
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LOCATION
 
Continent
Europe
Nation
Germany [Deutschland]
Land
Baden-Württemberg
District
Stuttgart
Town
Ostfildern
Address
Gerhard-Koch-Straße 1, 73760
 
 
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TYPOLOGY
 
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ARCHITECTURE
Public buildings
Administration buildings
Other public buildings
Additional
ARCHITECTURE
Buildings for cultural activities
Art galleries and exhibition areas
Libraries and media libraries
Multi-purpose centres
Sports buildings
Sports centres
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CHRONOLOGY
 
Project
1998 - 2001    
Realisation
2001
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CLIENT
 
 
Stadt Ostfildern, Germany
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STRUCTURES
 
 
Müller + Müller
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LANDSCAPE DESIGN
 
 
Klaus Wiederkehr
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STAFF
 
Design team
Jüergen Mayer H., Andre Santer, Sebastian Finckh, Andreas Berzborn, Markus Bonauer, Stefan Dambacher, Robert Frenzel, Martin Kühfuß, Kate Lemmen, Peter Martin, Marcello Mazzei, Sascha Nikolauschke, Julia Olsson, Dirk Reinisch, Gabriele Roy, Gunda Schulz, Jörg Stollmann, Georg Vrachliotis, Hans Weibel, Philip Welter, Sonja Wiese, Christoph Zeller
Associate architect
Ulrich Wiesler
Lighting engineer
Luna Lichtarchitektur
Physical engineering
Dr. Schaecke und Bayer
 
 
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