Meixner Schlueter Wendt Architects

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Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architects (spelling MEIXNER SCHLÜTER WENDT Architects) is a German architecture office based in Frankfurt am Main . The office's projects received awards at the World Architecture Festival in 2008 and exhibited at the 2004, 2006 and 2012 Venice Architecture Biennials .

history

Since it was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1997, the office has been run by the three partners Claudia Meixner, Florian Schlüter and Martin Wendt.

The office already aroused great interest in the specialist media with its early, even smaller, work. Today its spectrum includes the architectural planning and design of urban areas, commercial buildings, schools, churches, cultural buildings and residential buildings up to high-rise residential buildings.

At the same time, Claudia Meixner and Florian Schlüter give lectures at various institutions and held a visiting professorship for the master's degree in architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the 2017 summer semester. Claudia Meixner was a member of the Frankfurt Urban Planning Council from 2009 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2019 and is also a judge in various architecture competitions .

architecture

The formally very different buildings by Meixner Schlüter Wendt are based on two things in common: They have a very strong sculptural effect and are sensitive to the context. Meixner Schlüter Wendt solve this only apparent contradiction by using methods, principles and strategies that - according to design expert Lilli Hollein - are common in contemporary visual arts , but are rather unusual in German architecture firms. This also includes the calculated game with levels of perception. In doing so, the architects develop specific associations in the design process for the particularities of the location and building task , which arise from the observation and analysis of everyday things and their arrangement. This can also include recourse to familiar building typologies and techniques known from building history such as incrustation or relief , which Meixner Schlüter Wendt regards as intellectual ready -made, reinterpreted and transformed into new types of buildings.

In order to react to the different heights of the surroundings in Frankfurt's Europaviertel , the architects combined in the Axis z. B. a skyscraper, a multi-storey building and a row of terraced houses to a "block edge high-rise". In the single-family home Schmuck in Frankfurt's Westend district, on the other hand, the office transformed the typologies of the Hofreite , the patio house and the villa into a complex “living space sculpture”, taking the edges of the neighboring buildings.

The pontoon in the light and air bath

For the café of the light and air bath on the flood-prone Main bank in Frankfurt-Niederrad z. In 2003, for example, a ship-like pontoon that can swim in high water served as inspiration.

During the dismantling of the Dornbusch Church , Meixner Schlüter Wendt reproduced the former nave in a new relief wall, allowing the memories of the demolished building to live on in the form of an imprint in the new architecture. With the reinterpretation of the Henniger Tower , which was demolished in 2013 , the office also reacted to collective memories: While the contour and the side facing the city are strongly reminiscent of the original appearance of the old silo , the three other sides clearly show the new use as a residential tower.

Buildings (selection)

The relief wall of the Dornbuschkirche in the district of the same name
  • 2005–2006 Wohlfahrt-Laymann residential building, Oberursel
  • 2005–2007 House F, Kronberg im Taunus
Arouses associations with a stealth airplane : “Wohnhaus F”, Kronberg im Taunus .
  • 2006–2009 Ordnungsamt Frankfurt am Main
Schmuck Wohnhaus, Frankfurt: the "living space sculpture".
  • 2009–2011 home in Schmuck, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010 reading room / Ding Museum of Modern Art ; Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010–2012 Dock 2.0 office building, Frankfurt am Main
The height development of the residential high-rise Axis in Frankfurt's Europaviertel: row house, block edge, high-rise slab.

Exhibitions (selection)

Model variants of the New Henninger Tower during the design process.

Awards (selection)

  • 1988 Schinkel Prize , Art and Building, 1st prize price
  • 1995 Prize of the Villa Massimo , Rome, architecture
  • 2003 German Architecture Prize , recognition for the new light and air bath snack bar
  • 2006 Design award from the Wüstenrot Foundation "Conversion in the existing building", 1st prize, Dornbusch Church
  • 2008 World Architecture Festival , Award Winner in the category "Religion and Contemplation", Dornbuschkirche
  • 2012 ECOLA Award, European Conference for Leading Architects, Wohnhaus Schmuck, 1st prize for CO 2 -optimized renovation, renovation, remodeling
  • 2012 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, award for the home jewelry
  • 2017 FIABCI Prix ​​d'Exellence 2017 Germany, category living for the residential high-rise Axis

Web links

Commons : Meixner Schlueter Wendt Architects  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ e-architect: World Architecture Festival Awards - WAF 2008 , accessed on October 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Muck Petzet, Florian Heilmeyer: Reduce / Reuse / Recycle. Resource architecture. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3424-0 .
  3. ↑ a b Enrico Santifaller: Contextual Sculptures - Work Report Meixner Schlüter Wendt , in: DBZ - Deutsche Bauzeitschrift , Issue 08, 2013, accessed on October 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: '' We have to talk '' , 2013, accessed on July 10, 2019
  5. ↑ Boris Schlepper: '' Living on Danziger Platz '' . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 7, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Lilli Hollein: The Void & the Volume , in: Mark , Heft 04, Fall 2006, pp. 60–75.
  7. ↑ Meixner Schlüter Wendt: Everything is conversion , in: Detail , Heft 11, 2009, p. 1154f.
  8. ↑ Enrico Santifaller: Wohlfahrt-Laymann house: conversion and new construction of a residential house in Oberursel , in: Bauwelt 26, 2005, pp. 29–33 (pdf).
  9. ↑ a b Christian Holl: Dismantling a church - physical absenteeism , in: tec 21, Heft 10, 2006, p. 12.
  10. ↑ a b Rudolf Schmitz: Vitalizing partial demolition. The successful renovation of a church in Frankfurt , in: FAZ , July 11, 2005, p. 34.
  11. ↑ Case for living. Residential house in Mühltal-Trautheim , in: The best single-family houses under 150 square meters, ed. by Arno Lederer, Bettina Hintze, Callwey Verlag, 2004, pp. 82–85.
  12. ^ Lilli Hollein: The Envelope , in: Mark, Heft 02, 2006, pp. 171–175.
  13. ↑ Matthias Boeckl: Axis residential high-rise , in: architektur.aktuell, issue 4/2017, pp. 90-101.
  14. ↑ Florian Heilmeyer: Slab Revamp - Meixner Schlüter Wendt's vertical residential apartments and terraced houses in an array of sizes , in: Mark No. 67, April 2017, pp. 62–71.
  15. ↑ Enrico Santifaller: living room sculpture. House for a family , in: DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Issue 05, 2011, accessed on October 17, 2018
  16. ^ Daniel Bartetzko: Wohnhaus Schmuck , in: Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch 2011/12, ed. by Peter C. Schmal, Christina Graewe, Prestel-Verlag, pp. 108-113, ISBN 978-3-7913-5135-3
  17. ↑ Oliver Hamm: An Oasis: The New Jewelry House in Frankfurt's Westend , in: FAZ, May 26, 2011, p. 33.
  18. ↑ Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architects: Licht + Luftbad Niederrad, Frankfurt am Main , in: Volker Albus, Jo. Franzke: Architecture in Frankfurt am Main 1999-2003, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2002, pp. 216-217, ISBN 3-88506-522-3
  19. ↑ Robert Klanten, Lukas Feireiss (Ed.): Spacecraft. Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts , Volume 1, Gestalten Verlag, 2007, p. 32, ISBN 3-8995-5192-3 .
  20. ↑ Enrico Santifaller: Floatable plastic for use. Snack building for the light and air bath in Niederrad , in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen , Issue 7–8, 2007, pp. 34–39 (pdf).
  21. ↑ Evangelical Dornbuschgemeinde: our kiche - a special place , December 22, 2012, accessed on October 18, 2018.
  22. ^ BauNetz: Transformation of the existing stock - start of construction for the Henninger Tower in Frankfurt , in: BauNetz, June 27, 2014, accessed on October 17, 2018
  23. ↑ Thomas Wagner: The new Henninger Tower remains a landmark , in: Stylepark, April 28, 2014, accessed October 19, 2018.
  24. ↑ Doris Kleilein: Die Hochhausdebatte , in: Bauwelt, Heft 10, 2017, pp. 40–49, accessed on October 17, 2018 (pdf).
  25. ↑ Enrico Santifaller: Neuer Henniger Turm , in: Domus , Heft 034, November / December 2018, pp. 58–67.
  26. ↑ Ingird Spencer: Residential House of the Month: Residence F. . In: Architectural Record, November 15, 2010, accessed August 17, 2019
  27. ↑ Christian Brensing: Off the radar . In: Architectural Review . 112, No. 4, 2008, pp. 86-88.
  28. ↑ 2017 winners - FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Germany . In: FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Germany . ( fiabciprixgermany.com [accessed February 6, 2018]).