Municipal school of music, Herford
The downtown district consists of two main areas. The former area of Ahlers GmbH Goldress where the Design Museum by Frank O. Gehry (M.art.a) and the Competence Center of the German furniture industry, and the former site of Deutsche Post, in which a technology center (listed in stock guns) originated. On the open spaces of the post area is a parking garage and an office building developed and planned a hotel.
The project emerged from an investors' competition with 38 participants, which we won. The task was a construction of the municipal school of music for 1250 pupils and the construction of a business hotel with 100 double rooms before (in place of the roofed hotel has implemented an office building).
The structure of the music school is divided into a horizontal bar, which houses the classrooms and the administration, a body under these shifting event hall and an accompanying space / space-defining wall plate. These elements can also be read in their different materiality. The arrangement of the windows could only be chosen freely because the classrooms vary greatly in size on floors and contiguous window elements from cross-noise reduction and acoustic reasons were not possible. Another feature provides the necessary by the topography of split-level situation on the ground floor. Thus, the foyer and the administrative level were structured by the hall and a stair ramp.