693 Renewal and Conversion of the U-Tower as a Museum
Renewal and Conversion of the U-Tower as a Museum, Dortmund
Competition Design:
Gerber Architekten in cooperation with
Gernot Schulz, 2006 - 2nd Prize
Construction period: 2008 - 2010
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project director/Project manager: Jens Haake, Rolf Knie
Project team: Hannes Beinhoff, Olaf Schüler, Van-Hai Nguyen, Benjamin Sieber, Nicole Juchems, Keith Stoltenfeldt, Rosemarie General, Artur Schiebelbein et al.
Client: Stadt Dortmund - Sondervermögen vertr. durch die Arbeitsgruppe Rheinische Straße
Gross area: 19.800 m²
Volume: 122.297 m³
With its new ‘vertical’ – i.e. the ground-to-roof – entrance atrium the size of the U-Tower’s volume (a former part of the Union Brewery) can be fully experienced from inside for the first time. Escalators lead from the ground-floor foyer past all the exhibition levels to the ‘cathedral room’ directly underneath the illuminated ‘U’ sign on top of the tower. Conically contorted, metal-clad cubic shapes penetrate the building from inside out. They appear like counterpoints to the existing red clinker façades and point to the unusual roof shape of the ‘cathedral room’.
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