ARCHITECTS
Agn Niederberghaus & Partner Gmbh
PROJECT YEAR
2012
AREA
6370.0 m²
PHOTOGRAPHS
Olaf Mahlstedt, Andreas Hartmann
CATEGORY
Theaters & Performance
LOCATION
Hildesheim, Germany
Text description provided by architect.
Implemented measures included a new theater building, partial rebuilding of a castle from the late Middle Ages, and reconstruction of the stables.
The modern new theater building fits into historic ensemble, but still remains distinct from the exterior.
A ten-meter-wide joint to the main castle separates old and new.
The façade of vertically oriented copper plates is reminiscent of a theater curtain.
With the use of monolithic, 80 centimeter-thick light concrete walls and the untreated copper façade, building materials were used that are designed to last.
At the heart of the Medieval castle is the 650-year-old Palas, the so-called High House with three-meter-thick walls.
In the reconstruction of the seminar rooms, the visible new elements were reduced to a minimum and concentrated in individual components, such as the ceiling.
The third building measure—reconstruction of the stables for the music institute—will include, among others, the construction of two-story-high, soundproof music boxes.
