Townhall Scharnhauser Park - Mixed Used Civic Center, Ostfildern, Germany
Townhall Scharnhauser Park - Mixed Used Civic Center, Ostfildern, Germany
Townhall Scharnhauser Park - Mixed Used Civic Center, Ostfildern, Germany
Stadt.haus is located at the center of Scharnhauser Park, a former American military site next to Stuttgart airport. It is a
multifunctional public building unifying municipal administration, civil services, a public library, an art gallery, classrooms
for music lessons and evening school, a wedding room, office space, sports facilities and a multippurpouse hall. This
combination of different public services generates synergetic effects provoking programmatic and visual transparency.
Spatially the entire building is considered as large, open public space with inlays of certain core elements. Floating within a
space for mutual or strategic communication, these enclosed boxes structure the interior layout of the building. From the
main square to the panorama deck on the roof, the stadt.haus interlocks with its context through cutouts and terraces.
These open air spaces remain accessible beyond the main opening hours and therefore serve as spatial and programmatic
extensions. Light and water animations are an integral part of the stadt.haus and include a subtle relationship between
nature and technology. Framing the main entrance visitors will have to walk through a computer animated artificial rain
dripping from underneath the flat cantilevered roof. The stadt.haus and square construct a new public building prototype
by offering simultaneity of city life in real, mediated and virtual space.
Wind.Light
wind.light is a light installation next to the stadt.haus. Hanging glass fibre cables project points of light onto the ground,
animated by the movement of the wind. Built-in webcams collect all light points with a surveillance software and send a
life image of its dynamic constellation into the stadt.haus and onto the website of the City of Ostfildern.
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Technical Information
J. MAYER H. Architects
Team: Juergen Mayer H., Andre Santer, Sebastian Finckh, Andreas Berzborn, Markus Bonauer, Stefan Dambacher, Robert Frenzel,
Martin Kühfuß, Kate Lemmen, Peter Martin, Marcello Mazzei, Sascha Nikolauschke, Julia Olsson, Dirk Reinisch, Gabriele Roy,
Gunda Schulz, Jörg Stollmann, Georg Vrachliotis, Hans Weibel, Philip Welter, Sonja Wiese, Christoph Zeller
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