RECONSTRUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL¶S BAUAKADEMIE HISTORY, FUTURE USE, FLOOR PLANS, CONSTRUCTION COSTS, PROFITABILITY ANALYSES Version 31 July 2016 SCHINKEL¶S BAUAKADEMIE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INNOVATION, EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS AND CONFERENCES (SCHINKEL-FORUM: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE RESPONSIBLE CONCEPTION OF LIVING SPACE) WIEDERAUFBAU UND NUTZUNG DER SCHINKELSCHEN BAUAKADEMIE INTERNATIONALES ZENTRUM FÜR DIE VERANTWORTUNGSBEWUSSTE GESTALTUNG VON LEBENSRÄUMEN 1 Page 2 BAUAKADEMIE THROUGH THE AGES Bauakademie with monuments by Beuth (left), Schinkel (centre) 1945:Female Red Army soldiers and The ruins of the Academy and Deutsche Industrie- Bauakademie 202? (church Friedrichswerder- and Thaer (right; photo: 1888) American soldiers (viewed from Schlossfrei- bank buildings at Schinkelplatz, photo: Dr.- Ing. sche Kirche in the background), RKW Rhode heit Plaza to Schinkelplatz with Bauakademie Helmut Maier, in the fifties of the 20th century Kellermann Wawrowsky) and bank building in the background; source: feasibility study of the Senate for Urban Development and Transportation ± 1997 ± for the reconstruction of the Bauakademie) FRIENDS¶ ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BAUAKADEMIE 2 Page 3 BAUAKADEMIE: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE RESPONSIBLE CONCEPTION OF LIVING SPACES TABLE OF CONTENTS ITEM PAGE ITEM PAGE Photographs of the Academy building 2 Table of contents 3 1. to 1.5) Introduction, 1.1) History of Schinkel¶s Bauakademie, 1.2) 7.4) 1st floor ± Level 2 ± (Drees & Sommer, Berlin): seminar rooms and 17 Reconstruction of the Academy building, 1.3) Utilization, offices (approx. 700 m2), gallery (approx. 400 m2) 1.4) Operating Bauakademie, 1.5) Final considerations 4 - 7 7.5) 2nd floor (Drees & Sommer, Berlin): exhibition space 18 1.6) Perspectives 7 (ca. 850 m2), office space (ca.850 m2), atrium (ca. 400 m2) 2) Reconstruction of the Academy building 8 7.6) 3rd floor (Drees & Sommer, Berlin): exhibition space and 19 3) Utilization of the Academy building 8 archives (approx. 1,150 m2), offices (approx. 550 m2) 3a) Use scenarios (selection) 8 8) Construction costs 20 4.1 - 4.7) Use of spaces / examples of use 9 9.1) Economic feasibility (81.8 % foundation endowment, 18.2 % 21 5) Bauakademie: Historical section drawings, ground plans, views external funding for 5 years). Funding gap 0,570m ¼ p.a., 5.1) Historical section drawings: Richard Lucae (1875) 10 (financial adjustment through revenues from further foundation Historical section drawing: Richard Paulick / reconstruction 11 funding or changes in profit and cost items) (1953) 5.2) Historical ground plans 12 9.2) Economic feasibility ± variant ± (60% foundation endowment, 22 5.3) Historical views 12 40% annuity loan for 25 years), funding gap of 1,080m ¼ p.a. 6) View Model Façade 13 (financial adjustment through revenues from further foundation 7) Utilization study endowment or changes in profit and cost parameters) 7.0) View (Drees & Sommer, Berlin) 13 9.3) No credit financing (see footnote 7) 22 7.1) Plinth level (Drees & Sommer, Berlin): hall (850 m2), 10) Revenues 23 Ballroom (850 m2) lobby / foyer (850 m2), gastronomy / retail 14 11) Friends¶ Association Bauakademie: activities (outline) / Executive 24 (450 m2) Committee members 7.2) Ground floor (Drees & Sommer, Berlin): lecture halls (approx. 15 12) Construction Foundation Bauakademie: Committees members 25 2 2 575 m ), lobby and foyer (approx. 850 m ), gastronomy / retail 13) Contact details of the Friendsµ Association Bauakademie and the 26 2 (675 m ) Construction Foundation Bauakademie 7.3) 1st. floor (Drees & Sommer, Berlin): seminar and conference 16 Illustrations 27 rooms (approx. 500 m2), offices (ca. 400 m2), North façade of the ³Digital Model³ 28 exhibition space and foyer (approx. 1,200 m2) 3 Page 4 BAUAKADEMIE: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE RESPONSIBLE CONCEPTION OF LIVING SPACES 1)1 INTRODUCTION The architectural proposal for the reconstruction of the Academy building When standing on the perron of the Old Museum (Altes Museum) on envisages the restoration of the façade true to the historical model. Museumsinsel in central Berlin Mitte, an image ± just like a Camera The interior is to correspond in function and design to the future use of the Obscura - of the area around Schloss- und Schinkelplatz as it used to be building while retaining historical grids and structures. This approach in forms in the visitor¶s mental eye. The replication of the Bauakademie2 by particular would revive the visions of ³Synthesis of Functionality, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the structural work of the Berlin Palace enable Construction and Material Aesthetics´ the former Governing Mayor of the visitor to perceive the ensemble¶s beauty. Berlin, Mr. Eberhard Diepgen, mentioned in his editorial of the brochure Since its foundation in 1994, accompanying the International Real Estate Fair (MIPIM) in Cannes in 2001 the Friends¶ Association has regarding the original Academy building as his views echo what the promoted plans for the re- historical institution Bauakademie has shaped for modern architecture. The construction of the prominent utilization concept does not concentrate on museum functions and contexts but vanished Academy build- but focuses on a symbiosis of urban life at a historically central city location ing as an urban monument. as a centre for innovation, exhibitions, events and conferences with a focus The re-erected building on architecture and education. would also be a testimonial of 1.1) HISTORY OF SCHINKEL¶S BAUAKADEMIE the historical past following The Bauakademie was erected from 1832 to 1836 according to plans of Karl the citizens¶ clearly Friedrich Schinkel on the site of the former storage facilities Alter Packhof. perceptible desire to identify The Academy building rounded off the Kupfergraben landscape designed by with the city¶s traditionally Model Facade (left-hand side), photo: 2012 WS Schinkel. With spatially corresponding buildings ± Stadtschloss, Altes established urban character. Museum, Schlossbrücke, Zeughaus and the development of Friedrichswerder To realize the project of reconstructing and operating the Academy ± Schinkel realized the urban style of landscaped gardens (Lenné), an urban building, the Friends¶ Association and interested parties have founded the landscape using cubic elements. Reconstruction Foundation Bauakademie. 1 Sources, item 1: Brochures of the Friends¶ Association Bauakademie, the Reconstruction Foundation Bauakademie and the exhibition brochure of MIPIM ± International Property Fair in Cannes (2001). 2 A replication (a temporary simulated reconstruction of the Academy building using scaffolds and printed plastic sheets, in which the masoned model façade of the north-eastern corner of the Academy building was integrated) was erected by Internationale Bauakademie Berlin. The Model Façade (idea, project development, concept planning 1992 ± 1999: Dipl.-Ing. Horst Draheim) was erected in the context of a training building site organized by the Educational Association for Civil Engineering. The erection of the Model Façade was supported by a panel of experts including architects, art historians and monument conservators ensuring that the replications met ± in the minutest details ± the quality standards generally required by monument conservation for replications. Thus, the Model Façade is to be included in the building to be reconstructed. 4 Page 5 BAUAKADEMIE: INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE RESPONSIBLE CONCEPTION OF LIVING SPACES 1.1) HISTORY OF SCHINKEL¶S BAUAKADEMIE (CONTINUED) The institution Bauakademie was trend-setting in numerous aspects. The apartment Schinkel used to reside in later housed the Schinkel Museum. Inspired by the English factory buildings of the early 19th century, the building, in its technological aesthetics, was considered to be Germany¶s Subsequently, until 1945, the Academy building was used in manifold ways. first architecturally designed industrial construction. It is considered The building housed the University of Political Science, the Meteorological precursor of modern skeleton construction generating the type of multi- Institute of Friedrich Wilhelm University and others, in particular museum storey factory building currently in fashion again (e.g. Hackesche Höfe in institutions. Berlin). The cellar rooms of the Academy building and the neighbouring bank, due to The building facades were decorated with classicist imagery, which ± as their solid construction, were used to shelter artwork after it was removed for Schinkel formulated ± depict ³moments of the historical evolution of safety from nearby museums during World War II. architecture³. Schinkel cooperated with Peter On 3 February 1945, the buildings around Schinkelplatz plaza were heavily Joseph Lenné (Landscape Archi- damaged by bombs. In the 1950s already, the re-erection of the Academy tect) and Peter Christian Wilhelm building was initiated, and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on 21. Beuth. Beuth, amongst others, November 1953 Construction was secret Superior Councillor on work, however, was delayed due to the Prussian Interior Ministry for the GDR¶s plans of constructing Commerce, Trade and Construc- new government buildings, which tion. From 1836 the Bauakade- Laying of the foundation stone,1st floor, 3rd were later realized in Berlin¶s city mie at Kupfergraben housed royal window left (detail from a photogram 1911), centre. Prussian authorities, the Institute Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denk- In the early 60s, the decision