schulz & schulz, Leipzig
Aedes presents the architects Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz, who opened their office in Leipzig shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and have called attention to themselves in subsequent years with numerous successful competitions and a brisk building schedule.
The projects of this office range from large-scale undertakings such as one for Leipzig’s public transport system, all the way to extensions and work on buildings with landmarks protection.
Consistently conspicuous is their lucid formal idiom, the straightforward articulation and orientation of each building, and a skillful, sedate handling of materials. The recognition the Schulzes have received in the area of solar construction confirms their propensity for innovation in relation to the specific challenges of contemporary architecture.
The core of this exhibition at Aedes West is composed by numerous plans and models related to the unique “Wolkenlabor” (Cloud Laboratory) project, now shown to the public for the first time in comprehensive form. This poetic task presented itself in concrete terms in the form of a physical experimental protocol for troposphere research at the Leibniz Institute in Leipzig, for which the Schulzes were called upon to provide a suitable constructive envelope. The architectural concept explicitly reflects the building’s use as a cloud simulator with adjoining laboratory and office facilities for research purposes.
This principles of the legibility of uses and functions and the conformity between conception and built form are clearly evident in many other projects as well, and they characterize the lucid architectural approach of schulz & schulz.
The other projects featured are:
Bundeshandelsakademie in Feldkirch/Vorarlberg, the Lerchenfeld Secondary School in Freising, Freudenstein Palace in Freiberg, The Moritzburg Art Museum of Halle/ Saale, the Chemnitz South Police Station, The Leipzig Sanitation Department, the Technical Center of Leipzig’s Municipal Transport Services, and the Neue Nikolaischule in Leipzig.
Project management Aedes: Isolde Nagel
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