Project description

The original plan from 1882 provided for an elongated, three-storey brick building with a saddle roof, situated on a narrow plot of land between two streams of the Isarvorstadt. Initially, only the ground floor was built for a bakery. Shortly afterwards, a stepped, one-storey and two-storey „topping-up“ building was constructed with provisional sheet metal pent roofs in opposite directions. The building remained in this unfinished state for 130 years. 

In 2013, the building authorities accepted the proposal of a typological completion of the listed building and the realization could take place from 2015 to 2018. 

The existing building substance has been largely preserved, traces and layers of the various construction phases are visible. The originally planned shape of the building has now been completed by an additional storey and a saddle roof, which extends uniformly over the entire length of the building. The new construction, which weighs heavily on the existing masonry of the ground floor, is a light skeleton of wooden frame, ceiling beams and steel columns in the raised part. The rear façade, facing away from the courtyard, is on the boundary of the plot. Like the existing building, it is completed with bricks. However, it does not complete the interior, but rises two and a half storeys high as a free-standing, perforated shell. The thermally separated interior of the respective floors is 2.5 m further back. It can thus be fitted with room-high sliding glass walls without contradicting building laws and fire protection regulations. The result is a simultaneously flowing and filtered transition from the inside to the outside into a veranda-like interspace, which reminds typologically and atmospherically of room sequences known from European old towns, but also from the Japanese building tradition. The southeast-facing brick wall filters the view to the outside, increases the depth effect of the view by superimposing it and transforms the sun’s rays inside into a lively and changing light mosaic on the floor and walls