Denkwerkstatt 2023: High Modern Age adapt to the loads

On the Day of the Open Monument, the renovated GDR-type school gymnasium KT60L of the Freie Waldorfschule Magdeburg e.V. was opened to the public. During guided tours and the hands-on offer “Leonardo-Brücke-Bau”, the construction, the cultural value as well as the sustainability idea of the barrel-shaped supporting structure could be understood and discussed.

A two-week exhibition in the architecture pavilion at the TU Braunschweig presents the fields of work of the eleven sub-projects of SPP 2255 to a wider public. In addition to general information, interesting objects and impressions from the respective activities within the framework of the work will also be presented.

The second think tank of the DFG focus program Cultural Heritage Construction addressed the concept of authenticity, a central value standard of monument preservation action, whose efficiency in dealing with the building constructions of the high-modern has hardly been examined up to now. Renowned experts traced the challenges, criteria and processes of concrete handling in this special area. On closer inspection, the ‘guiding star of monument preservation’ turned out to be a fragile and dynamic construction.

In lectures and interdisciplinary discussions, the first think tank of the priority program Cultural Heritage Construction addressed two apparently almost opposite facets of ultra-modern construction, which were put up for discussion with the annual theme 2021 “Building at the Limit”: exploring structural limits at the limit of what was previously conceivable while minimizing the use of materials on the one hand and the confinement of structural thinking in codified limits of what is permissible by a previously unthinkable regulatory apparatus on the other.