stadt.haus
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 computeranimated 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.
E.Gram
laserconstructed wireframe-model of the stadthaus
J. Mayer H. mit Sebastian Finckh, 1999
Credits and Data
Townhall Scharnhauser Park - Mixed used Civic Center, Ostfildern, Germany
J. MAYER H. Architects
Team: Juergen 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
Permanent Collection of Museum of Modern Art, NY
Venice Biennale 2004, Arsenale and German Pavillon
