Diploma / Specialisation
Winter semester 2023/24
Aschersleben Island of Culture
Municipal Museum and Gallery Neo Rauch
Module nr.: AD 911
Mentoring: Prof. Ansgar Schulz, Prof. Benedikt Schulz, Gerhard Heise, Christian Wischalla
Aschersleben and Neo Rauch - the oldest town in Saxony-Anhalt and one of the most important painters of modern times. Neo Rauch is very closely associated with the city of Aschersleben. He grew up here and the Neo Rauch Graphic Foundation, which he founded, has been exhibiting his graphic work since 2012.
The town is characterised by numerous unique architectural and historical witnesses. It is one of the few cities in Germany where the medieval city fortifications with city gates and towers are still largely intact. A part of the important historical collection is exhibited in the municipal museum.
In the middle of the old town, the new Aschersleben Island of Culture with the Municipal Museum and the Neo Rauch Gallery for his large-format oil paintings is to be built on a unique plot of land. In collaboration with the city of Aschersleben and Neo Rauch, we will work on this design topic in the coming semester in the diploma and in-depth design and will conduct a joint excursion at the beginning of the semester.
Diplom
Registration by 08. September 2023 via e-mail at Christian Wischalla
Excursion/property tour: expected 12. – 14. October 2023
Specialisation
Registration: via selma Excursion/property tour: expected 12. – 14. October 2023
Summer semester 2023
Muskator
Revitalisation of an Industrial Icon on the River Elbe
Modulnr.: AD 911
Mentoring: Prof. Ansgar Schulz, Prof. Benedikt Schulz, Gerhard Heise, Christian Wischalla
The foundation stone of the Muskator-Werke was laid by Hermann Schmidt when he produced his first mixed feed on a small scale near Wuppertal in Radevormwald in 1903. The "Muskator" company was founded in 1911 and had its headquarters in Düsseldorf harbour. Management was centralised from here. The management, administration, purchasing, sales, product development and marketing had their headquarters here. From 1930 onwards, other brands such as "Ovator" were taken over by "Westdeutsche Mühlenwerke GmbH". In 1962, a second factory was built in Bamberg and further factories in 1966 in Mannheim and 1969 in Deggendorf. From 1987, two employees took over the management of the company as partners. In 1990, the Saxon "Muskator-Werke Tierernährung GmbH & Co. KG Riesa" was founded. The merger with the other plants did not take place until 1994. The turn of the millennium brought a change in the business situation; the company had miscalculated the purchase of raw materials. From the anniversary year 2011 onwards, other company locations were sold in whole or in part - including the best-utilised plant in Mannheim. Riesa, Bamberg and Deggendorf followed in 2012. 7 March 2013 marked the end of the company's history: "Muskator" filed for insolvency and ceased operations three weeks later.
The existing building structures are to be further developed in a sustainable architectural manner. New buildings as well as conversions and extensions are conceivable on the site. Your task is to develop various utilisation concepts for this impressive overall complex in order to revitalise the area. There are no limits to your ideas. The results will be incorporated into an overall urban and spatial planning idea, a distribution of functions and a spatial programme for the main use you have worked out. Whether you decide on a concert hall, a museum, a cultural campus, a conference hotel, a new Elb-Valley, a competitive sports centre, co-working spaces or individual forms of housing for the main use or the main building is entirely up to you.
Tutorials "Presentation of the design task" via VideoCampus und OPAL.
Registration: via selma
Diplom
Registration by 03. March 2023 via e-mail Handing out of the assignment by 05. April 2023 via e-mail by the examination office. Excursion/property tour: 06. April 2023
Specialisation
Registration: via selma Handing out of the assignment: 05. April 2023 via selma Excursion/site visit: 06. April 2023
Winter semester 2022/23
The Man from the Ice
Module nr.: AD 911
Mentoring: Prof. Ansgar Schulz, Prof. Benedikt Schulz, Gerhard Heise, Christian Wischalla
The " Man from the Ice", better known as Ötzi, is a mummy between science, cult and myth. It is a glacier mummy from the late Neolithic or Copper Age that was found in 1991. At around 5,300 years old, Ötzi is the oldest known natural human mummy. Its examination has provided a wealth of insights into the life of Stone Age people in Europe.
The city of Bolzano is looking for a new location for the Archaeology Museum. The current building in the centre of the old town was erected as the headquarters of the Austrian National Bank shortly before the First World War. From 1919 until the 1990s it housed the Bolzano branch of the Italian National Bank. The museum was opened in 1998 after extensive renovation work. The "Iceman" has been on display here ever since. It attracts numerous visitors in all seasons and is one of Italy's leading archaeological museums. After 25 years of use as the Ötzi Museum, the structure of the former bank building has not proved particularly suitable. Moreover, the museum is reaching its load limit. The archaeological museum with world star Ötzi was visited by almost 300,000 people last year.
One possible location for the new Ötzi Museum is considered to be the EURAC research institute with its Institute for Mummy Research. Since 2002, the headquarters of Eurac Research has been located in the former GIL building, close to Bolzano's old town. The complex was built in the 1930s as the headquarters for the female fascist youth - in Italian Gioventù Italiana del Littorio - according to the design of the two architects Francesco Mansutti and Gino Miozzo in the rationalist style. After the fall of Mussolini and the end of the war, the former parade building of the fascist policy of Italianising South Tyrol was used in many ways. The building fell visibly into disrepair. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was decided to extensively renovate, convert and extend the building under the auspices of the Graz architect Klaus Kada.
The new building of the Ötzi Museum should fit into the ensemble of buildings of the EURAC. The free space between the oval conference hall in the former cinema, the linear structure of the office and laboratory building and the triangular residential building in the neighbourhood is a particular challenge for the placement and connection of the new building volume. A new museum building is to create a new and architecturally outstanding exhibition space for this extraordinary archaeological find. The new Ötzi Museum will comprise 11 different exhibition areas, conservation facilities such as a cooling chamber and laboratories, an administration area and, of course, a museum shop and a café.
Tutorials "Presentation of the design task" via VideoCampus und OPAL.
Registration: via selma
Diplom
Registration by 03. September 2022 via e-mail Handing out of the assignment, depending on examination regulations: DPO 2010/2015 on 28. September 2022 resp. DPO 2021 on 07. October 2022 via e-mail by the examination office Excursion/property tour: 08.-11. October 2022
Specialisation
Registration: via selma Handing out of the assignment: 07. October 2022 via selma Excursion/site visit: 08.-11. October 2022