June 17 and 18, 2024 in Berlin-Tempelhof
The former Berlin-Tempelhof Airport is one of the largest listed building complexes in Germany. Built between 1936 and 1941, the facility mirrors several phases of German history in a unique way. The huge building complex is also of particular importance in terms of construction history; back in 2011, it was already honored by the Federal Chamber of Engineers as a “Historical Landmark of the Art of Engineering”.
The Tempelhof Projekt GmbH, founded in the same year, is responsible for the preservation, operation and further development of the challenging property. Since 2022, it has regularly hosted “Expert Meetings” as part of “Monument Workshops” to provide impulses on fundamental issues.
The concept of the “THFx Denkmalwerkstatt 2024.1” with the topic “High-modern constructions: repair and retrofitting” was developed in close cooperation with the coordination office of the SPP 2255. Three of the five external presentations at the expert meeting came from our priority program. The coordinator of SPP 2255, Werner Lorenz, opened the discussion with some essential reflections on the heritage value of construction, Roland May used the case study of Tempelhof Airport to sharpen the specific view on construction as cultural heritage and Clara Jiva Schulte explained—with cross-reference to findings from the sub-project she is working on in SPP 2255—different processes, projects and regulatory obstacles in connection with such difficult monuments. The workshop, which took place on 17 and 18 June 2024, met with great interest, with numerous representatives from politics, monument preservation and construction planning taking part.
The cooperation with Tempelhof Projekt GmbH will continue after this fruitful event. Furthermore, the experience gained with this first “practice project” provides an important basis for similar project partnerships, through which the SPP 2255 will contribute its own content-related expertise to real planning processes. The next practice project will be an expert hearing on the Wuppertal suspension railroad in August 2024.
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Werner Lorenz während seines Grundlagenvortrags „Denkmalwert der Konstruktion“. Foto © Tempelhof Projekt GmbH.
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Podiumsdiskussion am 17.6.2024 mit (v.l.) Ela Kagel, Christoph Rauhut, Heinz Jirout, Petra Kahlfeldt und Werner Lorenz. Filmstill © Tempelhof Projekt GmbH.
Further Extern, News
SPP 2255 at the 8th International Congress on Construction History in Zurich
Kategorie: ExternPublished on: 5. July 2024
Zurich
Just about a year ago, at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte in Berlin (11-13 May 2023), seven of the 17 presentations had been delivered by participants from the SPP 2255. This considerable presence in the German-speaking context of the history of construction was now followed by a no less remarkable international display at the 8th International Congress on Construction History in Zurich (8ICCH, 24 – 28.6.2024). This year’s conference with well over 200 participants from all over the world had been organized by the Institute for Preservation and Construction History at ETH Zurich.
Sports hall KT60L Free Waldorf School Magdeburg e.V.
Kategorie: Extern, VeranstaltungPublished on: 6. June 2022
Magdeburg
Im Forschungsschwerpunkt SPP 2255 „Kulturerbe Konstruktion“ der DFG befassen sich WissenschaftlerInnen der TU BA Freiberg und TU Braunschweig mit den Konstruktionen des VEB Metalleichtbau-kombinat (MLK). Ein Typenbauwerk des MLKs ist das Sporthalle KT60L.
Die Sporthalle der Freie Waldorfschule Magdeburg e.V. wurde Mitte 1970er Jahre erbaut und in den Jahren 2007 sowie 2010/11 saniert. Sie stellt wegen des innovativen Erhaltungsansatzes ein Vorbild für den allgemeinen und auch denkmalpflegerischen Umgang von Typenbauwerken der DDR dar.
Rediscovery of a key work by Peter Behrens thanks to SPP 2255
Kategorie: NewsPublished on: 5. July 2024
Dessau-Roßlau
During the second annual meeting of the SPP 2255 in Dessau-Roßlau, the participants also visited on October 13, 2022 various historical constructions in the Dessau-Mitte industrial park in the course of a field trip prepared by Axel Schuhmann (Anhalt University of Applied Sciences). One of its preserved halls made a particular impression on the participants, yet there was hardly any information available about it – for example on the construction period or the planners responsible.
Subsequent research led to a surprising discovery: the building is a supposedly lost work by the architect and designer Peter Behrens (1868-1940), an exceptionally important figure for the development of modern architecture.
Night of the Creative Minds Cottbus NdkK 2023
Kategorie: Extern, öffentliche VeranstaltungPublished on: 9. July 2024
Cottbus
Night of Creative Minds invites you to explore the DFG Priority Program SPP2255 Cultural Heritage Construction or High Modernism via touch screen and 3D interactive technology
Night of Creative Minds Cottbus NdkK 2024
Kategorie: ExternPublished on: 5. July 2024
Cottbus
Explore hidden supporting structures in ultra-modern buildings via touch screen and using 3D interactive technology – at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg for the Night of Creative Minds 2024.
Baukammer Berlin podcast about the art of engineering – hidden structures
Kategorie: ExternPublished on: 16. July 2024
Berlin
Listen now to the exciting podcast from the Berlin Chamber of Construction about hidden structures
10 years BTU Festival
Kategorie: ExternPublished on: 20. June 2023
Cottbus
poster gallery DFG priority program SPP2255 construction in cultural heritage and hidden load-bearing structures of highmodern buildings can be explored in 3D Interactive Technoloy
“Sternstunde null”: a film about the “Sternbrücke” in Hamburg-Altona
Kategorie: ExternPublished on: 22. December 2021
The Sternbrücke in Hamburg-Altona is not only a fascinating example of ultra-modern bridge construction from the 1920s. It is also one of the most prominent railroad bridges in Germany, the replacement or preservation of which has been the subject of intense debate on both sides for years.