Bauhäusle

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The Bauhäusle, June 2017

The Bauhäusle is the first sustainably built student residence in Germany with space for 30 students on the campus of the University of Stuttgart in Stuttgart-Vaihingen . The dormitory was planned and built from 1981 to 1983 by more than 200 students under the supervision of the architects Peter Sulzer and Peter Hübner . The Bauhäusle is a showcase project for social design and participatory building in architecture , created under the motto "Learn by building it yourself" .

Emergence

As part of the search for contemporary forms of teaching for architecture students, the professors and employees of the Building Construction I Chair at the University of Stuttgart started a project in 1980: 440 students worked out designs for one room each in a one-year, intensive teaching and planning phase in 32 small groups. The central community building with kitchen, lounge, toilets and showers was planned by the teachers. The rooms, which are grouped into nine assemblies, are grouped around him. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1981, and in June 1982 the so-called “Bauhäusle”, reminiscent of the Bauhaus, was handed over to the Stuttgart student union in an ironic and Swabian belittling way . More than 200 students took part in the construction with recycled and natural materials - especially wood - under the motto "Learn by building it yourself".

The result was a house that opens up from the inside to the outside, a "rough, wild assemblage of very different houses grouped around a common room, which stand out due to their idiosyncratic, even bizarre shape": For example, through roofs in the shape of a barrel and a hyperbolic paraboloid ; a one-room house has the shape of a fan (based on the design) and four rooms are arranged around a common tower like a windmill.

concept

The building is considered to be a showcase project for participatory building: the students should then live in it and show whether planning, building and living together is also capable of generating changed social behavior. The building should be checked against reality and offer the possibility of being able to change it in the course of the discussion. The underlying concept does not understand architecture as a finished result, but rather as a constantly changing process that follows new conditions. These buildings “prefer to be close to earth and close to people, also popular and playful in a provocative way, they are supposed to arouse emotions and move the imagination.” The structuralist construction, in which the human being is at the center, was understood as a conscious alternative to the anonymous, monotonous one Urban construction. The construction of the communal area consists of a wooden frame construction, the individual parts of the extension elements were used with as little waste as possible. The modular grid for the building was based on its production dimensions - a method developed by the English architect Walter Segal , which should enable everyone to erect a building themselves using the simplest means. The construction of the Bauhaus is visible in the interior: the supporting structure, stiffening beams and dowels at the connecting nodes remained uncovered. In addition to Segal and his participatory settlements in Lewisham, the radical views of Christopher Alexander and the critic of "inhuman architecture" Hugo Kükelhaus are other models .

effect

Because “the world has suffered enough from finished architecture”, the builders linked the Bauhäusle with the wish that “this would remain forever unfinished, that is, alive.” Originally aimed at a ten-year existence, the Bauhäusle has existed for over 30 years and is valid as the most beautiful, weirdest and at the same time the most affordable dormitory in the state capital of Baden-Württemberg. The concept initiated similar projects, e.g. B. the construction of the student residence hall ESA in Kaiserslautern or the earth mound houses in Stuttgart-Hohenheim. For both professors, the Bauhäusle marked a turning point in their careers. They advanced to build the largest participatory buildings and settlements in Europe - mostly wooden structures.

Due to the special architecture that brings the 30 residents together, the largely self-managed organization and the joint maintenance and expansion of the house, a close community is always formed despite the changing residents, which characterizes life in the Bauhäusle and makes it a special place to live together.

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literature

  • Peter Blundell-Jones: Student self-build in Stuttgart. In: Architect's Journal. July 27, 1983, pp. 32-50.
  • Peter Sulzer, Peter Hübner, Rolf Schneider, Jürgen Lecour, Norbert Haustein, Karsten Müller, Ralph Wilczek: Learning by building it yourself. A contribution to practice-oriented architecture (= Fundamentals of Alternative Architecture. Volume 6). Verlag CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1983, ISBN 3-7880-7218-0 .
  • Peter Blundell-Jones: Voyage of discovery. In: Architect's Journal. Vol. 181, No. 4, 1985, pp. 42-47.
  • Norbert Haustein, Thomas Pross: Bauhäusle . Edition Fricke by Rudolf Müller Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-481-50061-0 .
  • Peter Sulzer, Peter Hübner, Manfred Goss, Thomas Braun, Jürgen Lecour, Rolf Schneider, Jean-Marie Helwig, Georg Pratz, Matthias Mayer, Friedrich Lehmann: Student apartments in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. In: Manfred Hegger, Wolfgang Pohl, Stephan Reiss-Schmidt (eds.): Vital architecture - traditions - projects. Trends in a culture of ordinary building. Vieweg + Teubner, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-322-84141-3 , pp. 171-174.
  • Peter Sulzer: Notes on Participation. In: Peter Blundell-Jones, Doina Petrescu, Jeremy Till (eds.): Architecture and Participation. Taylor & Francis, London 2005, ISBN 0-415-31746-0 , pp. 149-160.
  • Peter Blundell-Jones: Sixty-eight and after. In: Peter Blundell-Jones, Doina Petrescu, Jeremy Till (eds.): Architecture and Participation. Taylor & Francis, London 2005, ISBN 0-415-31746-0 , pp. 127-140, especially pp. 137-139.
  • Peter Blundell-Jones: Peter Hübner - Building as a Social Process . Edition Menges, Stuttgart / London 2007, ISBN 978-3-932565-02-1 , in particular pp. 8-22.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Haustein, Thomas Pross: Bauhäusle . Edition Fricke published by Rudolf Müller Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-50061-0 .
  2. ↑ Master of Messy Houses . In: The time. Born in 1992, No. 15.
  3. ↑ Manfred Sack: With your head and with your hands . In: The time. Born 1983, No. 26.
  4. ^ Peter Sulzer, Peter Huebner, Manfred Goss, Thomas Braun, Jürgen Lecour, Rolf Schneider, Jean-Marie Hewig, Georg Pratz, Matthias Mayer, Friedrich Lehmann: Student apartments in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. In: Manfred Hegger, Wolfgang Pohl, Stephan Reiss-Schmidt (eds.): Vital architecture, traditions, projects. Trends in a culture of ordinary building. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-322-84141-3 , p. 174.
  5. ↑ Master of Messy Houses . In: The time. Born in 1992, No. 15.
  6. ↑ Master of Messy Houses . In: The time. Born in 1992, No. 15.
  7. ^ Peter Sulzer, Peter Huebner, Manfred Goss, Thomas Braun, Jürgen Lecour, Rolf Schneider, Jean-Marie Hewig, Georg Pratz, Matthias Mayer, Friedrich Lehmann: Student apartments in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. In: Manfred Hegger, Wolfgang Pohl, Stephan Reiss-Schmidt (eds.): Vital architecture, traditions, projects. Trends in a culture of ordinary building. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-322-84141-3 , p. 172.
  8. ^ Norbert Haustein, Thomas Pross: Bauhäusle . Edition Fricke published by Rudolf Müller Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-481-50061-0 .
  9. ↑ Alice Grahame: This isn't at all like London ': life in Walter Segal's self-build' anarchist 'estate In: The Guardian. 17th September 2015.
  10. ↑ Master of Messy Houses . In: The time. Born in 1992, No. 15.
  11. ↑ Master of Messy Houses . In: The time. Born in 1992, No. 15.
  12. ↑ Simone Gaul: Adventure playground with camping flair In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. May 23, 2013.
  13. ↑ Kim Förster: Eco Life Styles Stuttgart. 2016.
  14. ^ Peter Blundell-Jones: Sixty-eight and after. In: Peter Blundell-Jones, Doina Petrescu , Jeremy Till (eds.): Architecture and Participation. Taylor & Francis, London 2005, ISBN 0-415-31746-0 , p. 137.
  15. ↑ Peter Blundell-Jones: Peter Huebner - Building as a social process . Edition Menges, Stuttgart / London 2007, ISBN 978-3-932565-02-1 , p. 20.