Spatial design I Building in existing structures I Present and absent myths I 5th semester I Winter semester 2024/25
In many large cities, there are still numerous bunkers, mostly under public squares, which are visited by thousands of people every day without them knowing what is underground. Many of the bunker entrances have been reduced in size or even dismantled over time, as they do not fit into the cityscape or the bunker has no further use. This is an issue that affects many major German cities where the transformation processes of city centres are progressing. How can such places of cultural memory be made visible in public spaces in a new way and be experienced by as many people as possible? What new functions could be located in, on or around such above-ground access buildings and create new synergies? What design measures can be used to recode the existing buildings and make them truly usable so that they can be incorporated into the local spatial and social fabric as a meeting place? How can the history of the buildings be rewritten and the absent myth of a place of war industry be turned into a present myth that celebrates an open society?
The design is based on a series of concepts of spatial strategies for dealing with the existing building. Image panels are created by collecting visual material for each concept. All the image panels together form the image atlas. The aim is to systematically analyse the basic structural aspects of the spatial strategy on the basis of independent image research and thus make their conceptual regularity transferable for the design.
Supervised by deputy professor Florian Bengert.
Special thanks to the association Schutzbauten Stuttgart e.V. for the guided tour of the bunker.
Selected works (from left to right)r): Simon Cuellar-Neffle ("Marking"), Irina Cozma ("Wrapping"), Vildan Timur ("Distributing"), Anna Fabia Delisi ("Placing"), Noha Alsayed Alatrsh ("Leaning"), Claudius Gieringer ("Perforating"), Betül Bati ("Compacting")
