Kleine Rittergasse 11

Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Photo © Eibe Sönnecken
Photo © Eibe Sönnecken
Photo © Eibe Sönnecken
Photo © Eibe Sönnecken
Picture © Axel Stephan
Photo © Martin Repplinger
Photo © Martin Repplinger
Photo © Martin Repplinger
Drawing © Franken\Architekten
Drawing © Franken\Architekten
Drawing © Franken\Architekten
Architects
Franken\Architekten
Location
Kleine Rittergasse 11, 60594 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Year
2014
Client
Rothenberger 4xS GmbH
Team
Bernhard Franken, Frank Brammer, Robin Heather, Natascha Baier, Kai Heyd, Felix Schneider, Isabel Strelow
Fachplaner
Objektüberwachung: exact.projektmanagement / exitecture architekten, Frankfurt am Main Haustechnikplanung: Schüler Elektro – und Informationstechnik, Wiesbaden Statik & Brandschutz / Bauphysik: Tichelmann & Barillas Ingenieure, Darmstadt Elektroarbeiten

Franken Architects was commissioned by a private owner, to create a new impulse in the core of the old town Sachsenhausen by building a new home and studio in the Kleine Rittergasse. In contrast to many tourist locations in the environment there will be revitalization of the Alt-Sachsenhausen´s traditional connection between working and living by setting a mixed use of photo studio, office and apartments to a creative cell. The design draws on the original construction of the three-part structure with a gabled roof in reduced form. The base is covered with natural stone. The plaster facade of the upper floors allows the half-timbered facade of the original building as “after-image” resurrected by a milling machine, which only becomes apparent in the light of a silhouette. A digital algorithm produces a parametric jitter underscore to the points where once sat truss. This reminiscence represents a subtle and contemporary treatment of the genius loci and with reconstruction.

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