KUNSTHALL KALK

(2021)

Master projekt at Bergen School of Architecture.

The project is situated in the area of Kalk, Köln. Halle 60, an early 20th century industrial building, is transformed to studio spaces and workshops for the artists of the initiative KAT18.

The large hall provides a generous space in which to organize the program. The industrial building is placed in a corner site and facing both an inner courtyard as well as a park. At first sight Halle 60 has a repetitive pillar/beam structure, however the building has some unexpected moments. One of the brick facades is theatrical in how it is seperated from the logic of the rest of the building, an unclear and poetic moment emphasized in the project. Next to the theatrical facade there is a ramp leading up to an entrance through one of the windows. From there an inner landscape runs through the building. The play between existing structure and new inner topography frames spaces and zones of the programme.