Cafeteria at the University Aalen
CAFETERIA AT THE UNIVERSITY AALEN
MGF Architekten
ARCHITECTS
MGF Architekten
CLIENT
Vermögen und Bau Baden Württemberg, Herr Kellner
BUILDING PHYSICS
Brüssau Bauphysik GmbH, Fellbach
PLANNING OF STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK
graf ingenieure, Schwäbisch Gmünd
KITCHEN PLANNING
Ingenieurgruppe Walter
DESIGN TEAM
Maria Knott, Karin Schmid-Arnoldt
BUILDING EQUIPMENT
Herp Ingenieure GmbH & Co. KG
ELECTRICAL
Walter Gretz
AREA
550.0 m²
PROJECT LEADERSHIP
Josef Hämmerl
PHOTOGRAPHS
Michael Schnell
LOCATION
Aalen, Germany
PROJECT YEAR
2009
CATEGORY
Coffee Shop
Text description provided by architect.
A narrow and long-streched house situated between woods and the campus of the technical college : this is the new cafeteria for about 1200 students and lecturers.
The cafeteria both adds to the building complex and serves as a new central meeting - point for the students. The appearance of the building is dominated by larch and glass. Slats in a row plus a roof form an elongated room with open gable-end facades.
A solid core to stabilize the building was put into the columnless hall. A wooden cover is put over it. The closed wooden roof is supported by a multitude of arranged slats.
During daytime the appearance is modelled by varying light and shadow. This is a building with a smootht structure integrating harmonically both the standards of the programme and those of the local situation.
