Titus Bernhard Architekten BDA

Rathaus Bernried

Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters

RATHAUS BERNRIED 

Titus Bernhard Architekten

AREA
4060.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Bernried, Germany

CATEGORY
Cultural Architecture

Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters
Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters

RATHAUS- UND FESTSAAL, BERNRIED

The guiding idea for the design of this structure was the need to derive a form befitting an ensemble composed of town hall, festival and cultural halls, and café.

Is high-quality regional building to be achieved by adapting preexisting structural and roof types, or is an “international style” legitimated by the demands of a public building?

Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters
Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters
Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters

We accommodated this question in our typological derivation opting for an independent, forceful form that avoids the harshness of a rectangular flat roofed cubature while simultaneously refraining from an ingratiating village-style gabled roof architecture.

The various tendencies manifest in the historically evolving Bernried settlement were taken up in exemplary fashion and, combined with the austerity of the rectangular fields, compose an ambivalent figural image.

The design was awarded 1st prize in an EU-wide competition and executed in three construction phases.

Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters
Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters
Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters


Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters
Rathaus Bernried
© Christian Richters


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