Brückner & Brückner Architekten

Description

Invitingly open walls are the core of our architectural idea, our most passionate image. Floor-to-ceiling windows and velvety white surfaces attract visitors and guide them into the foyer with a view of the atrium. The atrium is the heart of the building, an open space over several floors, open to the sky. Bright arcades frame new views of the exhibition galleries and the surrounding landscape. The spatial footprints of this house were set 150 years ago when Matthias Berger designed the building in the neoclassical style in 1870 as a boys’ seminar. In the course of the redesign, we activated the building block of history and transformed it sensitively in a consistently sustainable manner. Berger gave us a house that, now freed from ballast, breathes its original structures again, but offers space for something new. It has never been the way it is. But it feels like it’s always been this way. Everything has come together to form a new, clear identity. The precise structure creates orientation and a functional infrastructure for the museum. Architecture as history that can be walked through and experienced. Freed from functional, structural, energetic, climatic and safety-related constraints, the museum will in future offer wonderful conditions for exhibiting, collecting, preserving, documenting and also for encounters. As always, open walls enter into a new dialogue with religious art and culture and people.