Karl-Heinz Schelling

Karl-Heinz Schelling (born March 22, 1925 in Eisleben ; † March 10, 2009 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Schelling was born as the son of the chemist Arthur Rudolf Schelling and his wife Franziska Schelling. Heinebrodt was born in Eisleben. Schelling attended schools in Bitterfeld and Leipzig . In 1944 he was trained as a pilot. After the Second World War , he continued his school education and graduated from high school in 1947 after completing a six-month high school course for combatants. At the same time he did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. From 1947 to 1950 he studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts Weimar . In October 1950 he left the GDR and continued his studies of architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt , which he completed in July 1953 by passing the main diploma examination.

After working for one year in Alfred Schild's architectural office in Frankfurt / M., He switched to the State University Building Authority in Darmstadt, where Schelling had already been employed during his studies. During this time he was responsible for numerous building projects as part of the expansion of the Technical University of Darmstadt. The focus of his work was the electrical engineering building with the lecture hall building ("Hexagon") in the city center and the buildings for the natural science institutes at the Botanical Garden site. In addition, he was responsible for the extension building at the wind tunnel site. In 1956/57 he presented extensive plans for the modernization and expansion of the Waldemar-Petersen-Haus (today: Darmstädter Haus) of the TH Darmstadt in the Kleiner Walsertal.

From 1956 to 1961 Schelling was a correspondent and permanent employee of the magazine baukunst und werkform . During this time he has written over 20 articles on various topics from architecture.

Since June 1962 he worked as a freelance architect in partnership with Oskar Dörr in Darmstadt. In this role he designed and built various kindergartens, schools and residential buildings. Schelling has won numerous architecture competitions and has taken top places.

In 1969 he became a teacher and in 1972 professor of structural engineering at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . In 1987 he was retired.

Schelling was also very active in sports. He was multiple German university champion in fencing .

Karl-Heinz Schelling was married to Dora Sturm (1923–1973) since 1950. The children Barbara (* 1955) and Christoph (* 1959) emerged from this marriage.

Honors

• 1965: the institute building botany and zoology of the TH Darmstadt is awarded by the state of Hesse as an "exemplary achievement".

buildings

• 1956–1961: Design for the expansion of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt at the city center (Hexagon lecture hall, institute building, halls)
• 1955: House Fränkel in Darmstadt
• 1956: Laumann House in Weiterstadt
• 1957: Expansion of the TH Darmstadt's wind tunnel location in Griesheim.
• 1958/1959: Extension of the Darmstadt house in Hirschegg (Mittelberg municipality) in Kleinwalsertal
• 1958/1959: Electrical engineering test halls (Darmstadt) .
• 1959/1960: Atelier residential building for Helmut Lander in Darmstadt, Olbrichweg 20
• 1962–1964: Institute building for botany and zoology of the TH Darmstadt, location botanical garden.
• 1962–1965: School center with boarding school in Kuwait.
• 1962: Hundt House in Reinheim.
• 1963: Roether House in Darmstadt.
• 1963: Kindergarten in Kelkheim.
• 1963–1965: Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Geography of the TH Darmstadt, location Botanical Garden (together with Oskar Dörr).
• 1964/65: Kindergarten in Schaafheim.
• 1967/68: Schelling house in Darmstadt-Eberstadt, Schloßstraße.
• 1968: Central archive of the EKHN in Darmstadt.
• 1969–1972: Eichwald School in Schaafheim (today elementary, secondary and secondary school with support level).
• 1970–1972: Administration building Bundesverband Druck e. V. in Wiesbaden.
• 1974: House-Atelier Pit Ludwig in Darmstadt.
• 1976: House Wunderle in Gernsheim.

Fonts

• Darmstadt. Sketches and texts. Darmstadt 1986.
• Buildings and cityscapes. Drawing architecture for study and leisure. Augsburg 1997.

literature

• Peter Süberkrüb: University buildings in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977.
• City of Science Darmstadt (Ed.): The Technical University of Darmstadt. A building history, Darmstadt 2007.