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Music and Dance Campus

Education Facility Development in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, design by HPP Architects

18 Jun 2015

Design: HPP Architects

Location: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

HPP take 1st Prize in Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus Competition

HPP International have won the competition to find the general contractor for the extension to Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus and for the conversion of the existing building that is currently in use.

Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus

Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus Building

The competition’s 21-strong jury, headed by Professor Tobias Wulf made a clear recommendation to the client that the winning design should be realised. In all, 13 entries were submitted, two third prizes of equal value and an honourable mention were awarded. All prize-winners will be invited to take part in negotiations with the client.

The site on which the University of Music and Dance is located, in the Kunibertsviertel close to Cologne’s railway station, will be transformed into an attractive campus, open to residents and passers-by alike, by means of the addition of a neighbouring site between Dagobertstrasse und Thürmchenswall.

HPP’s design would almost completely enclose the site on Dagobertstrasse, and make a conscious contrast to the animated, sculptural façade of the listed existing building. HPP Partner Remigiusz Otrzonsek explained, “The new building, a compact large format structure, will have its own character. The two new city spaces created, with their clear contours will aid the enmeshing with the existing structures and underscore the campus concept.” The jury praised the concept thus, “In the best sense of the word, this is a clear example of a successful urban remedy.”

Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus

The solid skeleton is encompassed by a perforated skin of lasered aluminium sheets. Vertical, electrically-operated elements are set before the openable windows. The large openings in the dance studio areas accentuate the façade as a whole and serve to transport the predominant use of the new building as a house of dance to the exterior. The interplay of the closed, translucent, transparent and moveable elements of the façade concept is thus a reaction to the various demands of the inner spaces and their uses. The perforated structure of the skin is an analogy of the pattern of the perforated cards used to store electronic music in the early part of the 20th century.

The light, warm tones of the wooden interiors influence the light atmosphere in the public spaces. The barely structured, light, flat materials of the floors in the foyer and the fair-faced concrete of the ceilings, with its low acoustic requirements, complete the calm material palette.

The concert hall in the interior is characterised by the acoustic cladding to the walls and ceiling. The walls are clad in light, composite wooden panels, mounted in a barcode-like, meandering pattern, the “drapery” of which is reminiscent of an abstract curtain.

This new structure will provide Germany’s largest conservatory with a building that meets all the demands of a modern school of music and dance. On completion, the concert hall with seating for an audience of around 400, dance studios – which are currently located in the Nippes area of Cologne, sufficient space for the university library and extensive rehearsal and teaching rooms provided will make the Cologne University even more attractive to national and international students. The conversion and extension will provide approximately 6,500 m² of usable space and construction should start at the beginning of 2018.

All of the entries are on display in the foyer of the University of Music and Dance and can be viewed during normal opening hours until 26 June 2015.

Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus

Music and Dance Campus – Building Information

Project: Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus
Location: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Client: Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW Köln
HNF: 6,500 sqm
No. of storeys: three above-ground, one below-ground

Planners
General Contractor: HPP International Planungsgesellschaft mbh, Düsseldorf
Architects: HPP Architects, Cologne
Partner in Charge: Remigiusz Otrzonsek
Competition Team: Robert Bönsch, Henning von Bonin, Kathrin Fach, Melanie Scholz, Daniel Stollfuß, Kurt Wimmer, Anabel Zawisla
Landscape Design: Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Berlin
Structural Eng.: schlaich bergermann und partner – sbp gmbh, Stuttgart
Building Services: INNIUS RR GmbH, Rosbach
Building Physics: Peutz Consult GmbH, Düsseldorf

Cologne University of Music and Dance Campus

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Location: Cologne, NRW, Germany, western Europe

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