039 Grüne Brauerei
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Year:
Team:
Year:
Team:
Mühlberg (Elbe)
2022-
Chrsitian Cotting, Caterina Ricci und Jurek Brüggen
2022-
Chrsitian Cotting, Caterina Ricci und Jurek Brüggen
The building was to be demolished as it was in danger of collapsing. The project is a proposal to use the considerable financial resources of the complete demolition for a better future.
Before work begins, the building will be scaffolded from the outside. The two scaffolds are supported from the outside and connected to each other through the building to secure the existing structure. The existing building has to be gutted and the collapsed ceiling slabs and roof removed. The small, very dilapidated outbuildings will also be demolished. On the ground floor, there is a bracing steel structure that should be preserved if possible.
The exterior walls are structurally secured on the one hand by a ring anchor on the exterior walls and on the other hand by wall sections on the outside of the south façade, which support the walls against horizontal forces and hold the entire building in place. The concept is based on the system used in Gothic churches, which also transfer the forces of the extremely high walls via buttresses.
The forces on all other walls are transferred to the new walls on the south side via circumferential horizontal truss girders. They are accessible and can later be used as wrap-around balconies and galleries.
A terraced residential building is erected on the southern buttresses. As with the Gothic buttresses, a load on the buttresses makes sense. Terraces and green roofs not only enable attractive residential use, but also serve to stabilise the existing building.
The interior of the former seed warehouse remains open and is being transformed into an attractive, protected garden. Galleries on different levels will allow the garden to be experienced vertically. The neighbouring flats to the south look through the existing openings into the so-called city garden. This is where residents can meet, children can play and smaller events can take place. The city garden will become the centre of the complex and can also be made accessible to the public and residents of Mühlberg.
photos by Alexander Paul Brandes
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Before work begins, the building will be scaffolded from the outside. The two scaffolds are supported from the outside and connected to each other through the building to secure the existing structure. The existing building has to be gutted and the collapsed ceiling slabs and roof removed. The small, very dilapidated outbuildings will also be demolished. On the ground floor, there is a bracing steel structure that should be preserved if possible.
The exterior walls are structurally secured on the one hand by a ring anchor on the exterior walls and on the other hand by wall sections on the outside of the south façade, which support the walls against horizontal forces and hold the entire building in place. The concept is based on the system used in Gothic churches, which also transfer the forces of the extremely high walls via buttresses.
The forces on all other walls are transferred to the new walls on the south side via circumferential horizontal truss girders. They are accessible and can later be used as wrap-around balconies and galleries.
A terraced residential building is erected on the southern buttresses. As with the Gothic buttresses, a load on the buttresses makes sense. Terraces and green roofs not only enable attractive residential use, but also serve to stabilise the existing building.
The interior of the former seed warehouse remains open and is being transformed into an attractive, protected garden. Galleries on different levels will allow the garden to be experienced vertically. The neighbouring flats to the south look through the existing openings into the so-called city garden. This is where residents can meet, children can play and smaller events can take place. The city garden will become the centre of the complex and can also be made accessible to the public and residents of Mühlberg.
photos by Alexander Paul Brandes
