PAROCHIAL CHURCH

Interior Design | Competition

The interior of the Parochialkirche is due to its from the destruction of the bombing warrior-raw-ruinous impression of an impressive, quiet simplicity. Maintaining the character of the injured and the sublime is the guiding principle of our design. Interventions in the historic room shell exclude this.

Our conceptual approach is based on restrained, reversible insertions and furnishings, which, moving away from the historical walls, allow and expand the use of space and space. On the one hand, they strengthen the original character of the Protestant church, on the other hand, they allow a flexible contemporary artistic and museum-like presentation of the space. The result is a dialogue between old and new, between the building and the user. The sensitive and reserved interventions are aimed at a learning process with the building, both in terms of uses and on the energetic and technical equipment.

The most important design elements are two freestanding galleries in the northern and southern conches. The northern gallery carries the organ, while the southern choir, orchestra and listener can record. Below the galleries are visible and flexibly usable rooms, which serve as (show) depots as well as for the presentation and mediation of the sacred art. This room can be completed laterally by a semicircular wooden construction as well as along the front side by sliding glass folding gates getting closed.

The central area between the new galleries and the eastern conches with the altar, pulpit and baptismal faucet allows flexible use of seating, benches and pedestals for sacred and artistic uses.

The winter church in the lower, large tower hall allows the retreating quiet devotion. The upper ringer room serves as a sacristy, as changing rooms and for artists' residences.
A new floor layer (above the existing floor) is planned for the entire church space. It allows basic temperature control and appropriate installation options.
In order to make it possible to use it all year round, it is planned to have a transparent cladding made of double-skin slabs to the roof space above the second beam layer. This allows the view into the attic of the Parochialkirche and becomes room acoustically effective via a fine lateral lamella.

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