05 Jul 2007
 Haus D

A vacant, former barracks area in Munich was to be converted into a day bar and cooking lounge. To achieve this, the single-storey, listed building basically had a new construction “implanted”. The volume placed into the existing shell remains readable through the protruding vestibule and the reveals of the new windows. The sobriety of the white interior stands in stark contrast to the property’s fragmented brick facade.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2007 – 2008
Client: Allgemeine Südboden Grundbesitz AG
Size: 100 m²
Status: Completed

05 Jul 2007
 House Holtmann

The development of the existing building from 1960 in Cologne’s city center is based on the “house on house” concept. The new construction is placed on the property as a confident, contrasting element. The design of the facade – building plastered, expansion of sheet metal cladding – strengthens this impression. The added volume is irregularly perforated by large-scale window cuts and terraces. Another important aspect of the design is the view of the Cologne Cathedral. A large-scale window was integrated facing the street on the fourth floor, offering a wide view of the towers of the Cologne Cathedral and the urban environment. In the attic above this, a generous terrace was included, also allowing an impressive view of the city. This principle of openings is repeated on the courtyard-facing side. In this case with a view of the quiet inner courtyard.

 

Location: Cologne, Germany
Year of construction: 2007 – 2010
Client: Dr. Klaus Holtmann
Size: 350 m²
Status: Completed
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05 Jul 2007
 House Knoll

CBA designed the extension of a detached house in Munich Grünwald for a young, local family. The already existing addition to the building is incorporated in its basic structure and extended southwards. A new flat roof replaces the gable roof and provides a clear contrast to the structure. This is enhanced by the dark facade cladding. The addition is initially intended as an independent rental living unit, but will later be connected to the areas of the main house.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2007
Client: Private
Size: 100 m²
Status: Settled

05 Jul 2007
 Singapore National Art Gallery

The significance of the new National Art Gallery is made perceptible by a significant, shimmering ART CASE on the roof of the City Hall. The ART CASE consists of a modular combination of cubes which build a large-scale space. Various ART CUBES break away from the ART CASE and get through the existing buildings in a playful way. The reciprocal effect of the surroundings and the Singapore Art Gallery with its ART CUBES continues from the inside to the outside. Single ART CUBES flow out of the building transporting art as landmarks into public space. They dock at significant places of the city and open up for passers-by, hereby attracting attention and triggering interest in the Gallery.The ART CUBES are the key to the gallery opening the door to art. They offer space for interaction, e.g. in changing exhibitions with young artists, small galleries or installations.

 

Location: Singapore
Year: 2007
Status: Competition, settled

05 Jul 2007
 Museo Cultural Santa Fe

The concept is based on the idea to create a façade that changes its appearance depending on weather and light conditions to refer to the environments of the site. Because of the reflecting panels, the sky, the soil, the buildings, the people, the colours, everything will by mirrored like a huge picture. The viewer gets the impression of an abstract, surreal image that changes dynamically according to viewpoint. The façade will never look like the same and intensifies the atmospheres of day and night time in a spectacular way.
By moving the new façade partially away from the existing façade, two open, multifunctional spaces will be generated which transform the plain vertical skin of the building into a walkable space between. These areas can be used both as a temporary extension for outdoor events or exhibitions of the museum and terraces for café or restaurant.

 

Location: Santa Fe, USA
Year: 2007
Client: Museo Cultural Santa Fe
Status: Competition, settled

05 Jul 2006
 National Library of Sweden

Instead of tearing down the smaller existing building, the design envisages the sensible incorporation of the new cubage into the existing building structure. In the form of fingers and bridges, the building grows out of the park landscape and intermeshes with the main and auxiliary buildings. Beams of light bring daylight deep into the building’s interior and give the room rhythm.

 

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 2006
Status: Competition, settled

05 Jul 2006
 Model office Balanstrasse

Model office spaces are to be developed for the campus grounds of the Neue Balan, the former company headquarters of Siemens and Infineon in Munich. After complete gutting, conversion measures create open, light, loft-like offices. Cubes are placed into the spaces to divide the room and thematically separate it through communication islands, meeting rooms, separate office rooms, etc. The modular system of the cubes on wheels enables the creation of a variety of room sizes. The system can continually grow as the office expands or be reduced if necessary.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2006
Client: Allgemeine Südboden Grundbesitz AG
Size: 500 m²
Status: Settled

05 Jul 2006
 House Damm

The expansion of a building was commissioned as part of the renovation of the property of a detached villa in Grünwald. This envisages an additional dining room with a kitchen on the top floor as well as a new en-suite bedroom on the ground floor. Two parties should be able to live separately in the building after completion of the building measures, divided into ground and top floor. The cubic form of the addition stands in conscious contrast to the 1960’s architectural language of the villa. A glass connecting corridor on both floors represents the necessary break between old and new.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2006
Client: Private
Size: 120 m²
Status: Settled

05 Jul 2006
 Facade Giesinger Station

The concept of the facade design is based on thoughts concerning “proportionality”, “ambivalence”, and “identity”. A homogeneous, encasing “dress” gives the building a unified material language. The building receives a new proportionality through the structure of the facade due to the alternating tilted, perforated panels. This creates a link to the old Giesinger train station and gives it an upgrade in its appearance. Due to the continuous glass facade on the ground floor, a base area emerges as a horizontal break, lending the building a floating character. In cooperation with Stadler + Wild.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2006
Client: Investa Projektentwicklungs- und Verwaltungs GmbH
Status: Competition, settled

05 Jul 2006
 Quiksilver showroom

The clothing manufacturer Quiksilver commissioned CBA with the conversion and redesign of the retail showroom in Munich in 2006. Targeted, partial alterations with the use of rough, coarse materials such as rusty steel panels, galvanized grates, and PVC multi-skin sheets emphasize the open, loft-like character of the presentation area. Designed as a continuous process, new furniture modules can be added or removed again and again in the coming years.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2006
Client: Quiksilver Europe
Size: 250 m²
Status: Completed

05 Jul 2006
 Trade fair stand Flos

The Italian lamp manufacturer Flos needed a trade fair stand concept to be developed on an area of just 23 m². Together with e.w.enture, CBA designed a spatial sequence of four frames which thematically divided the stand area into different areas such as product presentation, meeting, or information. By stringing together the frames, the trade fair stand gained a considerably larger visual depth than expected with the actual 4.50 m. The large-scale use of striking company colors on the back wall in contrast to the white wall, ceiling, and floor areas increased this impression. The light, homogeneous lighting and the framed view from the inside and outside let the visitors feel like actors in the scenery. Logos, a presentation table, and an information desk were integrated into the frames through inward and outward folds.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2006
Client: Flos
Size: 25 m²
Status: Completed

05 Jul 2005
 JVA

Description to follow.

 

Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2005
Client:
Size: 19,000 m²
Status: Competition, settled

05 Jul 2005
 Tsunami Memorial

The idea of the masterplan is to design three different sculptures inside the competition boundaries to create a space of nature and architecture, of silence and contemplation, science and culture, artificial and natural. The sculptures will be a tower (Museum/Memorial), a platform (Visitor Center, Learning Center, Conference area) and a cave (parking). The tower placed at the coast looking like a lighthouse over the Andaman sea and the beautiful surrounding green of the Khao Lak-Lam Roo National park. The platform in the south west of the site is embed in the trees and lifted up from the ground to preserve the nature. The parking-cave between the Visitor Center and Highway No.4 keeping the cars from the site-surface under the ground.

 

Location: Khao Lak, Thailand
Year: 2005
Status: Competition, settled

18 May 2004
 Eco Center Busan

The building exists of clear and visible elements: two shifted platforms which form the floor and the roof of the museum; translucent facades and cubes inside which contain the exhibition. The visitor enters the building in the north over a ramp. Passing the entrance hall he reaches the exhibition area of the museum. The content of the exhibition is shown chronologically from past to present and future. Beside the public spaces there are two cubes with internal uses at the north and the south of the building (administration in the north and research center in the south). Over the cafeteria/lounge in the south of the building, the visitor can continue his way into park.

 

Location: Busan, South Korea
Year: 2004
Status: Competition, settled

18 May 2004
 Franz Liszt Concert Hall

Description to follow.

 

Location: Raiding, Austria
Year: 2004
Status: Competition, settled