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2008
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Refurbishment Aalen
Infrastructure Educational Wood
Germany
Architect: MGF Architekten
Photographer: Christian Richters
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Architects: MGF Architekten

Location: Aalen, Germany
Architects: MGF Architekten GmbH
Collaborators: Martin Frenzel, Irina Auernhammer, Frank Lipphardt, Michael Franke
Client: Land Baden-Wrttemberg
Program: University of Applied Sciences
Budget: 27 millions
Area: 8500.0 sqm
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Project Year: 2006
From the architect. Landscape and architecture
Three buildings, covered with wood, are situated on a gentle slope with a beautiful view in
Aalen. Originally the site was an enlargement area of the existing university of applied
sciences, a building designed of Gnther Behnisch in 1969. There was an existing urban
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masterplan with a linear arrangement of the buildings and a central pedestrian zone. Trees
planted along the streets integrate the buildings in the nature. A square surrounded by the
library and the different faculties provide an open-air space for recreation after exhausting
lectures. The now realised buildings are the first steps of a small hopeful growing village, a
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campus of research and education.
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fixed on the angle of the walls. Ramps are connecting the different levels of the terraces.
Pathways and squares form an urban system built with concrete, asphalt and gravel. A light
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and transparent texture of wooden slats enclose the massive body of the houses. The
precise structure creates a new relationship with the seasonal changing trees along the
streets. This emphasises the relationship between nature and building.
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The layout of the buildings are organized into three functional layers. On the east side you
can find the offices and functional spaces and on the west side the seminar rooms and
laboratories. The lecture rooms and large exercise rooms form the front end of the
buildings. Light courts and staircases alternate in the corridor zone.
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Precise shapes
The clearly compositions attract attention to the facades who are textured with numerous
vertical lines. Made in larch, the wooden shutters create a deep, changing surface; a game
between visual transparency und closeness. It takes 90 seconds to open the shutters and
the transparent facade appears. Depending on the position of the louvers the building look
like a box of wood or a glass object. 2420 revolving shutters cover about 4500 sqm of the
main facades. Due to the modular grid of 60 cm the design enables a flexible partitioning of
rooms.
The supporting structure of the three story buildings is caste-in-place concrete. The traces
of the castings show how the building was erected. Inside the building this skeleton is
sophisticated in the finishing details and elements. The public areas are covered with blue
grey shell limestone from the area. The colour is very similar to concrete. The notsupporting walls are made out of gypsum carton and painted white.
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Technique
Basically the main facade is split into three levels of function. The room-high glass facade
covers the long sides of the buildings. Prefabricated wooden post-and-rail construction with
a modular grid of 60 cm includes double glazing which provides the thermal isolation. The
ventilated cavity between the glass facade and the wooden sunscreen is used as service
space. On the galvanised steel substructure the wooden shutters are fixated. Because of its
self-supporting system only the horizontal forces are lead to the concrete construction. The
rotating shutters are individually mechanical operated.
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Special Spaces
Because of the beautiful view to the city of Aalen the library was expanded with a outdoor
reading room, the balcony. A quiet relaxed space for reading, thinking or to take the air.
Inside the faculty building the massive concrete core creates a very intimate atmosphere.
The long internal corridors are interrupted by three story high voids. So the interior space
support the strong contrast to the outside of the building. The empty voids are covered with
glass. Walking down the central staircases, a sequence of windows frame the view to the
landscape. Untreated concrete and natural stone form a strong and massive impression in
the busy heard of the buildings.
Precision in form and technique create a new building like pieces of wooden furniture on the
new campus.
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