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2005–2010

Albertinum Dresden, Refurbishment and New Construction of the Central Depot Read more

© Marcus Ebener
© Werner Huthmacher
© Werner Huthmacher
© Werner Huthmacher

After the floods in Dresden in 2002, it was decided to move the collections of the state museums from the vaulted cellars to a safe depot. However, instead of placing the depot in the courtyard of the Renaissance building as required, we decided to keep the courtyard free and design it as the foyer and center of the museum. This made it possible to create a second entrance to the museum from the Old Town and to connect it with the entrance from the Brühl Terrace. The tours through the exhibition rooms start from the foyer in the inner courtyard. By transforming the depot areas on the exhibition floors into walk-in show depots, we were able to connect the previously disjointed exhibition areas into tours around the inner courtyard. The new depot building is not visible to visitors. It hovers above the inner courtyard, hidden from view by a luminous ceiling. The two-story depot building is stretched loosely over the courtyard as a bridge construction and lies behind the listed facades on the narrow sides only on the development cores.
Today the covered courtyard is one of the largest venues in Dresden.

Projektdetails

Commendation - Architecture Prize of the Association of German Architects (BDA) in Saxony 2013
Commendation - German Steel Construction Prize 2012
Commendation - German Architecture Prize 2011

Competition 1st Prize, 2004
Client Staatsbetrieb Sächisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement
Planning started 2005
Completion 2010
Total floor area 27,500 sqm

Competition
Team: Patric Eckstein, Johan Kramer, Johannes Löbbert

Planning and Realization
Project Management: Juergen Rustler
Team: Patric Eckstein, Ulf Theenhausen, Sebastian Haufe, Michael Zeeh, Dirk Wischnewski, Birgit Hübner, Tanja Klein, Anja Mathesius, Corinna Moesges, Diana Sarić, Rita Wirth, Helga Blocksdorf, Jens Achtermann, Marcus Ebener, Sabine Zoske, Yvonne Stanko, Tobias Steib, Ralf Grubert, Franz Schommers, Manuela Jochheim, Augustinus Clüsener, Daniela Gottschalk, Urs Krüger, Matthias Döhler, Robert Günzel, Anna Jancovics, Anne Hartzsch, Patrick Neubeck
Construction Management Coordination: Dirk Richter
Senior Construction Management: Gerd Eder, Axel Michaelis

Structural engineering: ARGE Erfurth+Partner Beratende Ingenieure, Dresden
Photography
Marcus Ebener, Werner Huthmacher