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The debate between those who think architecture from its form and those who think it from its use has been running through the architecture scene since the 1960s. One can describe the attitude of both currents with the simple pattern of Freudian psychoanalysis. On the one hand, there are those who …

Mobile architecture primarily means territorial mobility of real estate and its relocation by transport. In a broader sense, mobile architecture also means stationary architecture that enables flexible and diverse use through changeability. In both cases, architecture is set in motion and sent on a …

The hallmark of our affluent society is the more. XL means more for the money, one could be left out: to be on the safe side, think generously, but don’t think that in the end you will have too little after all. The car industry lives predominantly from this luxury principle - SUVs are the …

Moving Icon is a mobile information pavilion, that is implied in a series of historic places. The image of the popular housing icon made of four walls and a two-slope-roof has provided the basis for this convertible room, in which information about historic cities and their architecture is …

The mobile information and culture pavilion is now owned by the architect and will be available to interested cultural institutions for events from 2021 after a moderate renovation. The analogue and media appearance of the mobile pavilion will then be adaptable to the individual needs of the users. …

The gable roof is the icon of regional building and a symbol of regional solidarity. Moving Icon is the contemporary version of the archetype and the interpretation of a popular everyday architecture of 4 walls and a roof. Present monolith and changeable object at the same time, Moving Icon is a …

Task. A terrace house in a co-operative settlement from the 1920s changed hands: the house has to be renovated and adjusted to the requirements of the new proprietor. Situation. Two existing levels with identical plans and the classic housing standards: Kitchen, hall, bathroom, two rooms. Concept – L …

A Trip to the Countryside:

In the search for light, warmth and a view, the interior is set in motion. The inner world is turned inside out and the spatial experience becomes an excursion. In the luggage the garden furniture a table cloth and dishes. At the beginning of the journey, limited by your own four walls, the view …

The social life of the clients, who like to cook and not just for themselves, is expressed by a multifunctional spatial structure that combines the functions of stairs, kitchen and dining table. An almost 9 m long dining table that can be pulled out of the volume reacts to the changing space …

The changeable object offers a weatherproof refuge for experiments with the perception of different atmospheres. Equipped with the centrally placed divan, it is at the same time a public and private place, which leaves the dreaming only a limited ‘time in space’. The emotional reference …

House Amalia is a house for children that can also be used by adults. When closed, it can be entered via a cat door that corresponds to the silhouette of the family cat. When open it is a playhouse or, with its stretched foil roof, the setting for a meal on a large table.

The objective set up by the clients – who are journalists – was to create an additional study. The extension of a garage which is integrated within the house was originally envisaged. The typical timber-framed house with a large garden is located in a nature reserve. The clients were inhabiting the gro …

Rooftop Talks:

Architecture Kalhöfer-Korschildgen was founded in 1995 in Paris and Aachen and has been working in Cologne since 2000. We plan and build cultural projects for public clients: archives, libraries, museums, cinemas, buildings for tourism, or office and service landscapes. We have many years of …

Today we live in a constantly changing society, which is characterized by compression and expansion. Time and space are occupied more intensively in “always and everywhere ”1. “Always” stands for the condensation of time through activity, “Everywhere” for the expansion of mobility. This results in an expansio …

Cities are addicted to identity. Making what is special can be read helps in the competition for investors and only enables the commonality of the citizens. Identity and social space only work together. The building needs the superstructure. Ultimately, the Regionale 2006 is an event that helps to …

A simple, isolated farmhouse was converted into a holiday home. The quarry stone house was in ruinous state, without sanitary facilities. The main objectives of the design were the reconstruction of the torso and the installation of a kitchen and a bathroom. Obviously, a purely functional …

Today we live in a constantly changing society, which is characterized by compression and expansion. Time and space are occupied more intensively in the “always and everywhere”. “Always” stands for the condensation of time through activity, “Everywhere” stands for the exp …

A few years ago there was a very successful film in French cinema that offered two versions at the same time. Both versions were launched at the same time. Before going to the cinema, you had the choice between the movie Smoking and its second version, No-Smoking. This could lead to moviegoers who …

Tiere in der Kinderliteratur und in der Natur. Die besondere Stimmung, die Freude beim Lesen von Kinderbüchern entsteht durch ein Zusammenspiel von Text und llustration. Daneben ist das sinnlichen Erleben, das Hören und Fühlen von Papier beim Umblättern jeder Seite ein magischer Moment und beg …

Search for clues The Roman evidence lies hidden in the landscape and is its secret. The design wants to make their traces visible without destroying the poetry of the hidden. Interventions should only enable the visitor to experience the historical images and time levels hidden in the landscape and …

The town gate Zülpicher Tor is one of the most remarkable ancient buildings in Nideggen, a tourist city in the Eifel Range, south of Cologne. The expansion of the gate provides an access keeping up with the times, and therefore makes its touristic use possible. The architecture of the expansion …

The extension is separated from the old building and fills an area in the backyard of the old building. It is set directly against the surrounding historical buildings and their walls. The hall was constructed in steel as a folded structure and clad with a zinc roof. The resulting building appears …

Kalhöfer - Korschildgen mit Büro für Architektur, Stuttgart Ein typisches Haus im Herault in einer engen Gasse. Das Dorf steht unter Denkmalschutz. Das Haus ist ein Ensemble zweier Häuser, von denen eines nur noch in Teilen existiert und den Freiraum für den intakten Teil abgibt. Absurderweise ist dies …

Architecture. After 1803 the cloister of the monastery, parts of the building had been demolished. The opening of the courtyard through the demolition of the south wing 1885 was an architectonic loss, but symbolized the changing of European society at that time and gave new quality of light and …

Wedinghausen Monastery was founded in 1170 as a Premonstratensian order. At the beginning of the 19th century, after more than 600 years of history, the monastery was dissolved and parts of the structure were subsequently demolished. What remained was the east wing, which the Catholic parish …

Historical rooms are spaces of memory and remembrance. In them not only the architectural time is condensed in different forms and constructions, but also the demands and ideas of the societies and institutions of the respective epoch. The art historian Martin Warnke describes this background very …

Kalhöfer-Korschildgen Architekten - Das Büro wird aufgelöst Wir trauern um unseren lieben Freund und Kollegen, der in der Nacht vom 21. auf den 22. Januar 2023 verstorben ist Gerhard Kalhöfer Er hat für die Architektur leidenschaftlich gelebt, hat so vieles Besonderes geschaffen und ist viel zu früh …

2021 ist das Haus am Horn Preisträger des European Heritage Award der EU: Europa Nostra Anerkannt wurde die Sanierung und Restaurierung des Musterhaus des Bauhauses von 1923 und die innovative Ausstellungsarchitektur, die den Besuchern den Ursprungszustand der Einrichtung von 1923 vermittelt.

Fire protection. The experience of fire protection begins with the outer skin. Every 5 minutes, a 20-second light and sound installation starts there, putting the visitor in an alarm situation and also drawing attention to the topic within the overall exhibition. The rhythm and the timing of the …

Vollrads Castle is one of the historically most important wineries in the Rheingau with an 800-year history of viticulture. The winery exceptionally builds Riesling and also plans to document the dies in an exhibition. The report Contacting exhibition locations and exhibition topics in Schloss …

Building and context. How do you make a building disappear whose dimensions contradict the small-scale surroundings? The oversized volume is broken up, parts are hidden under an ascending orchard meadow and thus put into perspective. The large halls are freed and turned into musical sculptures in a …

Following on from Mies van der Rohe’s ideas of “the greatest freedom in the type of use” or “flowing space”, the project reinterprets the floor plans of his residential building “Weissenhof 14-20” in the Weissenhofsiedlung against the background of today’s techniques and materials. Typed, mobi …

Incision. The design is characterized by the balance between industrial history and the course of the landscape, between the past and the present: - the industrial history becomes spatial in the overarching gesture of the simple roof reminiscent of factory buildings; - The flowing landscape can be …

A defining urban planning element of the Freudenberg Museum of Technology is the relocated former sawmill hall. It is the largest and tallest structure in the ensemble. A possible expansion must take this into account. We are not interested in a new beginning, but in a sensitive and appropriate …

A typical kitchen from the 1950s, endowed with yellow floor tiles and a serving hatch, has to be rehabilitated. The users experiment with devices and techniques used in modern cooking. An existing kitchen block in stainless steel, has to be integrated with the new accommodation. This new layout …

Wir trauern um unseren lieben Freund und Kollegen, der in der Nacht vom 21. auf den 22. Januar 2023 verstorben ist Gerhard Kalhöfer Er hat für die Architektur leidenschaftlich gelebt, hat so vieles Besonderes geschaffen und ist viel zu früh von uns gegangen. Stefan Korschildgen

Task. A slate-clad mansion in the center of a small German town has to be renovated in order to meet the owners’ demands. Situation. Prior to the renovation the house was inhabited by the clients and three tenants. The clients used to live in one part of the ground level and the first floor which h …

The Kastenhof in Landau an der Isar, which was renovated and converted as part of a museum conversion in the 1990s, was to receive a new permanent exhibition. The exceptional architectural quality of the building required careful handling of the existing building. The exhibition architecture should …

The CINENOVA Arthouse-Kino is one of the most renowned cinematic cultural sites in Cologne. The hidden urban location in the middle of a heterogeneous industrial park made it necessary to create a special “address” and appropriate route to the cinema. As a harbinger of the inner cinema …