Electrical engineering test halls (Darmstadt)
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| place | Darmstadt |
| architect | Gerhard Bartels, Rolf Dreesen and Karl-Heinz Schelling |
| Client | Technical University of Darmstadt |
| Architectural style | Post-war modernity |
| Construction year | 1958/59 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '25.5 " N , 8 ° 39' 29.6" E |
The electrical engineering test halls are structures in Darmstadt .
Architecture and history
The test halls were built in 1958/59 according to plans by the architects Gerhard Bartels, Rolf Dreesen (1917–2012) and Karl-Heinz Schelling . The halls are exemplary of the light and airy architecture of the 1950s. Stylistically, the buildings are reminiscent of the Bauhaus style .
The halls consist of a steel girder construction . The surrounding ribbon windows are only interrupted by individual gates. The parapet fields are made of yellow clinker bricks . Flat roofs crown the buildings.
When building the test halls, costs were saved due to the relatively low material consumption and the use of mass-produced components.
In 2014/15 the leaky roofs were completely renovated.
Monument protection
For architectural and city history reasons, the electrical engineering test halls are a cultural monument .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 98.