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- Title
Rekonstruktion.
- Authors
Peseke, Horst; Freund, Alexander; Bärenfänger, Katja; Duppel, Christoph
- Abstract
Reconstruction - Philosophicum, Frankfurt The Philosophicum was built between 1958 and 1960 as a seminar building on the campus Bockenheim in Frankfurt. Its architect, Ferdinand Kramer, designed the building as one of the first steel skeleton buildings in Germany with external columns and a curtain wall façade. Due to the relocation of the university at the beginning of 2001 to Frankfurt Westend on the site of the former I.G. paint industry arose a discussion about the new design or redevelopment of the campus in Bockenheim and thus also of the Philosophicum. Since 2011 Bollinger + Grohmann has been responsible for the recording of the existing structures with regard to the historic preservation, structural and façade design and building physics regarding various questions and different depths in order to determine the potentials and risks of a high-quality testimonial vacant for 15 years of an intense and outstanding time segment of urban development history. Within the scope of a preliminary feasibility study, extensions, various building physical and façade concepts were developed which all considered the existing structures. In 2014, the property was sold to the current owner and will be converted into a student dormitory with 270 apartments, a children's day care centre and a café on the ground floor by the end of 2016. The listed old building was supplemented by a five-storey new building. In the course of the project, the reinforced concrete façades were carefully restored and the curtain wall was visually reconstructed as a steel façade. The reconstruction is the main subject of this article.
- Publication
Bautechnik, 2017, Vol 94, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0932-8351
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bate.201600093