Design Concept
The renovation concept for the "Löwen" does not aim for a complete restoration despite its advanced decay but intends to preserve it with limited resources and create a framework for temporary uses. Key structural points will be secured, yet deficiencies will remain visible to document all phases of construction, including the destruction during the period of abandonment between the early 1970s and mid-2000s.
Transformation
The aim is not to fully repair damages or restore the original state, but to conserve collapsed walls, ceilings, and destroyed beam ends in their current condition. This strategy creates new spatial structures in some areas, such as galleries and visual connections, while limiting the need for new building components and additional interventions, and at the same time revealing the building’s history and different phases of construction.
Project Details
- Client
- Baiersbronn Touristik
- Typology
- Denkmalpflege
- Location
- Baiersbronn, Buhlbach
- Service Phases
- LPH 1-8
- Team
- Klaus Günter, Katharina Fritz, Jeroen Meissner, Jürgen Lauffer
- Structural engineering
- Steinmetz und Steinmetz SuS
- Construction measurement and research
- Michael Hermann
- Restoring examination
- Bernhard Wink