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18.06.2024, Listed building conversion
Groundbreaking ceremony Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

18.06.2024, Listed building conversion

Groundbreaking ceremony Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Today's ground-breaking ceremony marks the start of the construction phase for the renovation and general refurbishment of the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe. The works of art have already been relocated to various depots over the past year. The most important works of art will be exhibited in the Center for Art and Media during the construction work. The most visible change will be the use of the inner courtyard as a foyer, which will be roofed over and opened up to the lowest exhibition floor.

18.06.2024, Listed building conversion

Groundbreaking ceremony Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

05.2024, Category urban component
Otto-Borst-Prize 2024

05.2024, Category urban component

Otto-Borst-Prize 2024

We are delighted to win the Otto Borst Prize for Urban Renewal 2024, which we received in the category Urban Component for the new city entrance to Kronberg at the terminus of the S-Bahn line from Frankfurt.

Every two years, the association Forum Stadt – Network of Historic Cities honours outstanding projects that preserve, renovate, convert or further develop the historic city substance. 

With an new ensemble consisting of a hotel, chamber music hall and music academy, the Musikquartier Kronberg redesigns the way from the train station to the old town of Kronberg and provides a sequence of public squares and paths that structure the rising terrain. At the highest point of the site, Kronberg Academy's chamber music hall regularly stages concerts by its scholarship holders and other musicians associated with the academy.

05.2024, Category urban component

Otto-Borst-Prize 2024

03.2024, Competiton
Recognition
Stolzenfels Castle infrastructure building

03.2024, Competiton

Recognition
Stolzenfels Castle infrastructure building

We are delighted that our competition entry for the design of a multifunctional reception building for Stolzenfels Castle in the Middle Rhine Valley has been recognized.


We proposed a simple and yet expressive lightweight construction to be built on top of the existing parking garage. It consists of six half-barrels mounted on external supports, which open up towards the Rhine and the palace park. This structure leads to an unmistakable silhouette that stands out from the local buildings and is read in the context of the romantic castle grounds, the church and the architecture of the landscape park. 
Thanks to their apex height, the spatially connected aisles of the building are just as suitable for storing plants in winter as they are for a variety of uses in the summer season. The southern aisle is designed as a weather-protected open front area that can be used regardless of the building's operation. From there, you enter the glazed part of the reception building with two narrower aisles for a small café with information counter and an adjoining room. The southern aisle is designed as an open front area that can be used independently of the building's operation. Using mobile cabinet elements that can be coupled and locked between the barrel vaults, the room areas can be subdivided and arranged for the desired use. 
The chosen Zollinger construction is made up of small, identical wooden elements. The prefabricated elements are inexpensive, easy to transport and dismantle. The simple components form a vaulted structure that is supported on edge supports and spans the space effortlessly due to its low weight. 
In order to harmonize the open parking lot façade of the existing building with the lightweight structure, it is clad with translucent perforated metal panels whose perforations overlay the heaviness of the existing building.

03.2024, Competiton

Recognition
Stolzenfels Castle infrastructure building

04.03.2024, Architektur Forum Ostschweiz
'Character' discussion series

04.03.2024, Architektur Forum Ostschweiz

'Character' discussion series

'inconspicuous to idiosyncratic'

Talk by Volker Staab 

with Lukas Gruntz, architect, Basel
moderated by Susanne Brauer, philosopher, Zurich

Saturday 04.03.2024 at 7:30 pm


Architektur Forum Ostschweiz
Davidstrasse 40
9004 St. Gallen

04.03.2024, Architektur Forum Ostschweiz

'Character' discussion series

22.02.2024, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
7 chapels film with Volker Staab

22.02.2024, Babylon Cinema, Berlin

7 chapels film with Volker Staab

A film about how sacred architecture embodies the human urge to give meaning and understand existence itself, or simply anything.
Long takes, combined with music by Wolfram Oettl, draw you into a surreal trance.

7 Kapellen – DE 2023, R: Orla Connolly & Jens Weber, 87 Min

22. Februar 2024, 19:30 Uhr
Followed by a discussion with the directors Orla Connolly & Jens Weber and the architects Frank Lattke and Volker Staab

Babylon Cinema
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30,
10178 Berlin

22.02.2024, Babylon Cinema, Berlin

7 chapels film with Volker Staab

01.2024, db deutsche bauzeitung
Musik im Einklang mit der Architektur View Article
25.11.2023, Ark Rex film festival Helsinki
RoughCut of the Bauhaus Archive Film by Nico Weber

25.11.2023, Ark Rex film festival Helsinki

RoughCut of the Bauhaus Archive Film by Nico Weber

Nico Weber and the director of the Bauhaus Archive, Dr. Annemarie Jaeggi, present a rough cut of their film about the Bauhaus Archive at the Ark Rex architecture film festival. The film highlights the work of the Bauhaus Archive team with the world's most important collection on the Bauhaus and follows the construction site for the extension and renovation of the building in Berlin over several years.

Ark Rex 2023 Film Festival
November 25-26, 2023 

Bauhaus Archive / Work in Progress, director's cut
25.11.23, 2:00 pm

Bio Rex
Amos Rex, 2 krs.
Mannerheimintie 22-24
00100 Helsinki

25.11.2023, Ark Rex film festival Helsinki

RoughCut of the Bauhaus Archive Film by Nico Weber

10.2023, AAG 2023 Conference Stuttgart
Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces

10.2023, AAG 2023 Conference Stuttgart

Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces

Excited to have presented our paper "SearchField - Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces" at the AAG 2023 conference in Stuttgart. It came out of a collaboration between Staab Architekten and the Department of Structural Design and Engineering at the University of the Arts Berlin. Our research focuses on design space exploration, empowering designers with an intuitive approach and integrating key performance factors into the architectural design process. 

 

10.2023, AAG 2023 Conference Stuttgart

Navigating N-Dimensional Design Spaces

04.2023, Johann-Wilhelm-Lehr-Plakette
Casals-Forum awarded

04.2023, Johann-Wilhelm-Lehr-Plakette

Casals-Forum awarded

We are pleased to announce that the Casals Forum has received an award from the Association of German Architects. 
The plaques are awarded every five years. Ten projects received the award for 2018-2023.

An ensemble consisting of a chamber music hall, academy and hotel was built between Victoriapark and the S-Bahn station in Kronberg, providing Kronberg Academy with optimal conditions for the musical training of young talents from all over the world. The new buildings, integrated into the rising terrain, are grouped around a public urban space, at the highest point of which the concert hall lays with its far-reaching roof. Its all-round glass façade allows views right into the free-form concert hall.

 

04.2023, Johann-Wilhelm-Lehr-Plakette

Casals-Forum awarded