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Stuttgart, Germany
Architects: Côme Ménage
Client: ABK Stuttgart
Landscape Architects: Sempervirens
Design team: Anne Brunet (arch), Rita Negrao (arch), Rebecca Pepl (arch), Jeff Reuben (Urban Planning)
Renderings: Cylind
Located right next to the Weissenhof Siedlung complex in the outskirts of Stuttgart, Germany, the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste (Academy of Fine Arts) is seeking for an extension building that relates to the Modernist UNESCO World Heritage it sits next to.
The project is an intervention in a highly landmarked area that lost its luster due to the destruction of a good part of the critical mass of the original exhibition housing. The challenge is to bring new energy in an area where most cannot be touched.
This proposal uses plateaus, a theme that is inherent to the modern movement, as programmed podiums to the landmark buildings. It frees new ground through the university and Weissenhof exhibition buildings.
The existing topographic challenges of the site are turned into an advantage and uses the potential of its hills and valleys to create flat new areas of interaction for students and visitors
