Congress House Salzburg
The Salzburg Congress Center , also known as the Salzburg Congress , was opened in June 2001 and is one of the most modern event and congress centers in Austria.
history
In the course of the reconstruction in the period after the Second World War, a congress center was built in Salzburg in the 1950s. It was opened in 1957 at the Auerspergstraße / corner Rainerstraße location directly adjacent to the spa garden . Architects were the Viennese Max Fellerer and Eugen Wörle , with Otto Prossinger and Felix Cevela .
At the beginning of the 1990s, the Salzburg municipal council decided to replace the aging building with a new one, and in 1992 had an architect's appraisal procedure carried out (jury chaired by architect Hans Hollein ). A project by the Spanish architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg was recommended, but was rejected two years later because of structural complaints and at a high price (440 million schillings, approx. 32 million euros). In 1995 the architect Friedrich Brandstätter was commissioned with the planning work. The project was withdrawn from this in 1997 and handed over to the architect Ernst Maurer from Hollabrunn for continuation.
The old congress house was demolished in autumn 1998 and after the excavation pit was excavated in early 1999, construction of the new building began. The new congress house, now called Salzburg Congress , was opened in June 2001 after only two and a half years of construction. In the end, however, the construction costs amounted to just over 700 million schillings, and from an urban planning and architectural point of view there were also critical voices.
Architecture and construction technology
The task for the architect was to create a building site that met modern requirements on the traffic axis Bahnhof – Rainerstraße – Altstadt, which was delimited by the inner city location and, because of its proximity to the historic Mirabell Palace on the direct border of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Center of the City of Salzburg To build the event house.
The building, which extends over five floors, is compact and makes full use of the building space. The facade is sober in glass facades and natural stone surfaces. The house, designed for a capacity of over 2500 people, is loosened up inside by glass bridges, various ceiling openings and galleries. The outer shell of the hall, which is embedded in the middle of the building, is also visible through the glass facade in the evening thanks to lighting effects. The materials used for the interior design are granite in the entrance foyer, acacia parquet floors in all halls and exhibition foyers, glass handrails and a metal coffered ceiling, as well as lights specially made for the Salzburg Congress. A backlit glass work by the Canadian artist Stuart Reid extends over three floors of the main staircase .
Due to the difficult soil conditions (high groundwater level and the nature of the soil), the building was founded using a continuous, approx. 120 cm thick foundation plate. The basic structure of the five-storey building consists essentially of a reinforced concrete frame construction with reinforced and prestressed concrete ceilings. The transparent outer skin is designed as a suspended steel and glass facade, which is anchored in the reinforced concrete frame on the fifth floor. The building is structured in such a way that the middle section with the main hall and / or the foyer is supported by four main supports. The house's supply facilities and adjoining rooms are grouped around this central part of the building.
The house is heated on the one hand by a high-temperature system with district heating and on the other hand by a low-temperature system using geothermal energy , generated by heat pumps, as well as a photovoltaic system on the roof and on the facade (400 m², 34.2 kW) - Salzburg Congress was the first congress center in the world that covers part of its electricity needs with self-generated electricity. The house is air-conditioned in part using heat recovery to save operating costs.
The Salzburg Congress has extensive stage technology and a press center . For simultaneous translations, there are built-in and mobile units for up to 8 languages. The adjacent Hotel Sheraton Salzburg is responsible for the catering.
facts and figures
- Planning and execution: Friedrich Brandstätter, Ernst Maurer
- Art in architecture: Stuart Reid, Canada
- Construction management: ARGE Hypo NÖ and Zipperer
- Start of construction: 1999
- Completion and opening: June 2001
- Usable area: 15,000 m²
- Foyer or exhibition area: 2,500 m² - expandable to 3,500 m²
- Transport infrastructure: 6 lifts, including 3 panorama lifts, and 4 escalators
- Capacity: 2,500 visitors
- Space: up to 15 conference rooms with a capacity of 20 to 1,350 people
- Largest event hall: Europa-Saal for 1,350 visitors with 20 trucks built into the ceiling (load capacity 500 kg each) for decoration and lighting plus 14 more in the stage area, a stage (19 × 7.5 m² expandable) and a control room
literature
- Congress House Salzburg . In: Architektur & Bau News , 10/1998.
Web links
- Salzburg Congress
- Congress House Salzburg , architektmaurer.com
Footnotes
- ↑ a b [The new congress house is coming! Final decision of the Salzburg municipal council]. BauNetz, July 9, 1998
- ↑ Construction pit for the 42nd birthday - When the congress house was opened, it was considered a symbol of the reconstruction in Salzburg . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 9, 1999.
- ↑ a b c Christian Kühn: Why not off the peg? . On nextroom.at, August 18, 2001
- ↑ Dimensions blown - the new congress building will be twice as high as the old one . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . August 31, 1998.
- ↑ Thinking before demolishing the old building - The colossal disaster surrounding the new building of the congress house gives reason to take a closer look at the old building for its suitability . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 31, 1998.
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '25.4 " N , 13 ° 2' 29.4" E