House of Democracy

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TYPOLOGY: Competition / Educational, Public

COUNTRY: Germany

CITY: Frankfurt

YEAR: 2025

COMPETITION: Open ideas competition according to RPW

GFA: 6.200 sqm (new) + 14.000 sqm (existing)

CLIENT: Stadt Frankfurt

NO NEW CONSTRUCTION ON PAULSPLATZ
A cohesive ensemble that offers visitors the opportunity to explore the history and significance of democracy.

THE DEMOCRATIC LOBBY
Positioned between the Paulskirche and the New Building, the foyer serves as a central link between all functions: the Paulskirche with its historical exhibition, the New Building with its event spaces, workshops, and permanent and temporary exhibitions, and the Kämmerei with its library, laboratories, and offices.

LOCATION & URBAN DESIGN
The New Building accommodates a 368-seat event hall, temporary exhibition spaces on the lower floors, and a permanent exhibition on the upper levels. Its deliberate placement along Berliner Straße preserves the openness of Paulsplatz, fostering a compelling visual and spatial dialogue with the Paulskirche.

MATERIALITY
The solid portions of the façades of both the New Building and the Democratic Lobby are clad in red Main sandstone. Walls and roof are constructed from glued laminated timber trusses in a sandwich system, with glass layers on both interior and exterior faces. The south façade integrates approximately 600 m² of photovoltaic panels, ensuring a sustainable energy contribution.

CONSIDERED POSITIONING
The vertical circulation core (8.50 × 4.80 m) is strategically placed in front of the closed eastern façade of the former Federal Audit Office building, preventing unwanted overshadowing while maintaining clear visual connections.

A greenhouse of democracy
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Shkodra Football Stadium

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TYPOLOGY: Sport

COUNTRY: Albania

CITY: Shkodra

YEAR: 2017

PHOTOS: © Roman Mensing, BOLLES+WILSON

The 2017 football stadium in the northern Albanian city of Shkodra was a fast-track project – Albania had to host the ritual skirmish with Serbia. To marshal Riotous Serbian fans corral-like platforms were built – each restrains 500 fans within the heavy steel perimeter rail. These raked platforms were as naked concrete an illustration of Louis Kahn’s statement (that a buildings sculptural essence is only visible while under construction or as a ruin). The colours of the Shkodra team are a manly pink and light blue. Finished the pink reverse side of the stadium corrals offer a dramatic backdrop for informal urban life. The new main stadium with V.I.P. deck + press box is lit from up lights reflecting on white circles (see sketch). Existing stadiums were upgraded with a wind animated screen.

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Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
Shkodra, albania, albanien, football stadium, fußball stadion
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Suzuki House

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TYPOLOGY: Residential

COUNTRY: Japan

CITY: Tokyo

YEAR: 1993

CLIENT: Akira Suzuki

AWARD: Goldmedal from Japanese Architects Institute 1994

PHOTOS: © Ryuji Miyamoto

A house as a large family room suspended in the city.

A house with a child’s room suspended within.

A house with two legs and a usable roof.

A house glanced by a passing Ninja (Impressed Shadow Façade).

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Street view at night
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Street view at day
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Sketch
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Interior
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Internal organization sketches
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Ground floor
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First floor
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Second floor
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Passing Ninja
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Kitchen and dining room

Moebelum

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TYPOLOGY: Retail

COUNTRY: Germany

CITY: Munich

YEAR: 2016

GFA EXISTING: 4.047 sqm

GFA NEW: 755 sqm

CLIENT: Möbelum Zentral GmbH

PHOTOS: © Florian Holzherr

Möbelum furniture outlet – a new facade for an existing industrial building/furniture showroom.

The stacked cassettes of the display facade integrate existing office windows.

Möbelum, München, Munich, Foto, Florian Holzherr
Möbelum, München, Munich, Foto, Florian Holzherr
Möbelum, München, Munich, Foto, Florian Holzherr
Möbelum, München, Munich, Foto, Florian Holzherr
Möbelum, München, Munich, Drawing, Sketch, Peter Wilson, Zeichnung
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KVW-Münster Office

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TYPOLOGY: Office

COUNTRY: Germany

CITY: Münster

YEAR: 2000

PHOTOS: © Christian Richters

A building that inserts a new square in the plan of the City, in a zone of transition from monumental 19thcentury administration buildings to smaller scale row houses with no major urban frontage, but bisected by a public right of way (commuter bicycle route). The “U”-form of the new building frames a ramped square, scales change in stages. The bicycles punch a grand portal through the office facade. Cellular offices open through a glass facade supported on a frame of laminated timber giving the conventional offices a lightness and transparence.

The principle which animates this convention bound site and program is that of carefully detailing and choreographing everyday necessities – entrance, office layout, meeting rooms. The whole adds up to a clear and precise urban insert, sculptural in its form both object and container.

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Siteplan
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Floor plan
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