J. MAYER H. Architects

Stadthaus Marktplatz . Stuttgart

J. MAYER H. Architects

Stadthaus is located at the center of Scharnhauser Park, a former American military site next to Stuttgart airport.

It is a multifunctional public building unifying municipal administration, civic services, a public library, an art gallery, classrooms for music lessons and evening school, a wedding room, office space, sports facilities and a multipurpose hall. This combination of different public services generates synergetic effects provoking programmatic and visual transparency. Spatially the entire building is considered as large, open public space with inlays of certain core elements. Floating within a space for mutual or strategic communication, these enclosed boxes structure the interior layout of the building. From the main square to the panorama deck on the roof, the stadthaus interlocks with its context through cutouts and terraces. These open air spaces remain accessible beyond the main opening hours and therefore serve as spatial and programmatic extensions. Light and water animations are an integral part of the stadthaus and include a subtle relationship between nature and technology. Framing the main entrance visitors will have to walk through a computer animated artificial rain dripping from underneath the flat cantilevered roof. Wind.light is a light installation next to the stadthaus. The stadthaus and square construct a new public building prototype by offering simultaneity of city life in real, mediated and virtual space.

Team: Juergen Mayer H., Andre Santer, Sebastian Finckh, Andreas Berzborn, Markus Bonauer, Stefan Dambacher, Robert Frenzel, Martin K¸hfu_, Kate Lemmen, Peter Martin, Marcello Mazzei, Sascha Nikolauschke, Julia Olsson, Dirk Reinisch, Gabriele Roy, Gunda Schulz, Jˆrg Stollmann, Georg Vrachliotis, Hans Weibel, Philip Welter, Sonja Wiese, Christoph Zeller

Architect on Site: Ulrich Wiesler
Structural Engineers: M¸ller + M¸ller
Service Engineers: Wetzstein
Landscape Architect: Klaus Wiederkehr
Light Engineers: Luna Lichtarchitektur
Building Physics: Dr. Schaecke und Bayer
Photographer: David Franck