{"id":12157,"date":"2022-03-11T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/artikel\/ein-glueck-fuer-berlin\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:19:42","slug":"volker-staabs-design-for-the-bauhaus-archiv-is-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"magazine-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/article\/volker-staabs-design-for-the-bauhaus-archiv-is-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Volker Staab\u2019s Design for the Bauhaus-Archiv Is \u2018A Gift\u2019 for Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-contents'>\n\n<div  class='cf-rem-max-width container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Volker Staab\u2019s Design for the Bauhaus-Archiv Is \u2018A Gift\u2019 for Berlin<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 363,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-300x200.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":200,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":14946},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-1024x684.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":684,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":86090},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-768x513.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":513,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":57428},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-1536x1025.jpg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":1025,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":155136},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-2048x1367.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1367,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":239245},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-440x294.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":294,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":25840},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-580x387.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":387,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":38708},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-720x481.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":481,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":52333},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-1280x855.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":855,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":118294},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1-1920x1282.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1282,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":217051},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-1.jpg\",\"width\":3544,\"height\":2366}},\n\"alt\" : \"Architecture model with white buildings, trees, and a river, in a minimalist portrayal.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:66.76072234763%; 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If it isn\u2019t all right, then of course it\u2019s not the end yet. This is probably what the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin has been telling itself over the past few years \u2013 with the museum\u2019s director, Annemarie Jaeggi, and her team striving year after year to ensure that the museum, which is bursting at every seam, will finally receive the extension it has urgently been needing. It is a goal that already seemed to be just within reach 17 years ago. The Japanese architectural office SANAA, headed by Pritzker prizewinners Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, won the first competition to plan an extension for the museum. But their design remained only a design: one more chapter in the continuing chronicle of the unbuilt city of Berlin.<br><br>But finally in 2015, both the will and above all the financial resources needed to create the new building have become available \u2013 a total of \u20ac 56.2 million, with \u20ac 21.5 million going to the renovation of the existing listed museum building and \u20ac 34.7 million to the extension. And the first prize has been awarded, for a convincing design, to a museum architect who is both acclaimed and experienced in the field \u2013 Volker Staab, who already took part in the first competition in 2005. So it seems that after many long years, everything is finally going to turn out all right for the Bauhaus-Archiv \/ Museum f\u00fcr Gestaltung after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-zitat'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure class='wp-block-ho-quote '>\n\t\t\t<blockquote>\u201cImmer wieder entwickelt Staab seine Ideen in einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit dem vorgefundenen Bestand, wird seine F\u00e4higkeit gefordert, auf die jeweils anderen Kontexte einzugehen.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption>J\u00fcrgen Tietz<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'><strong>Architectural avant-garde<\/strong><br><br>With its abstract compositions consisting of white cubes, the Bauhaus changed modern architecture in the twentieth century more fundamentally than any other architectural trend that came after it. It is for good reason that the few more or less original Bauhaus buildings that were erected in Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s are today regarded as incunabula of the avant-garde \u2013 despite all of the alterations and repairs to them that have been made. When the Bauhaus in Berlin was closed at the start of the Nazi dictatorship, the great experiment with a different, integrated form of art education in Germany came to an end for the time being. But the spirit of the adventure they had been part of continued its influence through the work of the major figures involved \u2013 particularly in America, where both the founding director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, and also its last director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, continued their careers. After the end of the Second World War, they returned to Berlin on two occasions with architectural designs. The results were two world-ranking museums \u2013 the New National Gallery by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the Bauhaus-Archiv, based on a design by Walter Gropius. The two buildings are located only a good kilometre apart. 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She had for many years been eagerly trying to bring some of the courageousness and quality of Helvetian architectural culture to Berlin\u2019s urban planning and architecture. 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background-position: 50% 50%; height: 100%; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<lazy-media-inline inline-template>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<lazy-media :inline=\"true\" :alt=\"alt\" :sizes=\"sizes\" :scale=\"scale\" :zoom=\"zoom\" :brightness=\"brightness\" :path=\"path\" :video=\"video\" :autoplay=\"autoplay\" :youtube=\"youtube\" :crop=\"crop\" :youtubelabel=\"youtubelabel\" :annotations=\"annotations\" :background=\"background\" v-if=\"sizes\"><\/lazy-media>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/lazy-media-inline>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figcaption id=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Competition design Bauhaus-Archiv: interior perspective, 2015<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">\u00a9 Staab Architekten<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The architect, who was born in Heidelberg in 1957 and teaches in Braunschweig, has long since become an authority in the field of German architecture in his own right \u2013 particularly in connection with museum buildings. The numerous museum buildings he has designed range from the New Museum in Nuremberg (1991\u20131999), the Georg Sch\u00e4fer Museum in Schweinfurt (1997\u20132000) and the New Gallery in Kassel (2005\u20132012) to the fine little art museum in Ahrenshoop and the extension of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, which opened in the summer of 2015. It is almost alarming how regularly his museum designs emerge from competitions as the victors. And these successes represent one thing above all: recognition of the high aesthetic quality of his concepts and their ability to function well in both urban-planning and museum terms. Again and again, Staab has developed his ideas in an intensive engagement with the existing situation \u2013 testing his ability to respond to a different context in each case. It is a test that he has passed with bravura in Berlin as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-zitat'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure class='wp-block-ho-quote '>\n\t\t\t<blockquote>\u201cAt the beginning of our projects there is always a collection of materials.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Volker Staab, Architect<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>When I had an opportunity to interview him for the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung (NZZ) some time ago, it was precisely this approach to the architectural task and the location that I was interested in. And his response at that time also seems to be helpful for understanding his most repeated competition success: \u201cOur projects always start with a collection of materials. We put these together in order to find out what the specific characteristic of the architectural task is. For example, the specific quality may be the location itself, with the characteristics of its urban setting, its scale, its material properties, or the traces of history it contains. But it can also include aspects of the content of the architectural task that go beyond that. Our work then consists of distilling these very different facets within the framework of the design process.\u201d<br><br>In his design for the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, Staab has rigorously met the specifications for the competition in a site that is certainly not a simple one. Located on the Landwehrkanal, the narrow tongue of the museum area between L\u00fctzowufer, Klingelh\u00f6ferstra\u00dfe and Von-der-Heydt-Stra\u00dfe is enclosed by constantly noisy traffic on three sides. The task was to convert the existing building, which had long since become too small, for use by the archive, along with generous space for events and a viewing depository, while new exhibition areas were to be created with an area of around 7,000 square metres in the extension building. The competition specifications stated that the existing listed building was to be renovated \u2018while preserving its architectural quality, its characteristic appearance and the heritage value of its substance\u2019 and that it was to be made more energy-efficient. The special quality of Staab\u2019s design in Berlin is the masterly mixture of architectural naturalness with which it connects to the existing building, along with an intelligent accentuation that gives the museum added functional and urban value. It is no surprise, therefore, that the jury chaired by Hilde L\u00e9on unanimously voted him the winner out of a total of 41 submissions.<br><br><strong>But what is it about Staab\u2019s design that is so convincing? <\/strong><br><br>Staab\u2019s idea is marked by the way in which it takes several aspects into account and brings them together as a unit. It preserves the integrity of the existing listed building by largely subordinating the new building to it \u2013 literally, in fact, by placing it at a lower level \u2013 while at the same time the new building is fused with it to form a structural unit. On Klingelh\u00f6ferstra\u00dfe, Staab has formulated a new visual focus at a suitable distance from the striking shed roofs of Gropius\u2019s exhibition halls. It is a tall, five-storey tower, which the jury acclaimed as having an \u2018almost delicate\u2019 effect. In the future, the impression it creates will also project into the inhospitable street area.<br><br>Behind the glass encasement of the tower, consisting of sun-blocking glazing and internal shading, there are slim steel supports that are intended to \u2018dance\u2019. It will be a challenge to implement them in as fine, delicate and elegant a form as the design promises, in order to give the building its discreet, sculptural overall effect. This structural experiment represents a continuation of the Bauhaus idea in the best possible sense, since the Bauhaus itself must be regarded as an experimental architecture laboratory.<br><br>In the future, the museum will have an easily recognizable entrance via the ground floor of this shining glass tower, a new landmark in Berlin \u2013 and a counterpart for the old access ramp that leads into the museum\u2019s interior. In addition to serving as the entrance, the glass tower is also intended to feature a digital studiolo and facilities for the museum\u2019s educational services (on the second and third floors), as well as a lounge. Revision work on the design \u2013 which will now have to be developed further in dialogue with the museum, as the future user \u2013 may possibly be needed, as in other areas of the new building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/medien-bild-zwei-bilder-gross-gross'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-11 mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 365,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-300x223.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":223,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":15136},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-1024x760.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":760,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":119755},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-768x570.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":570,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":73724},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-1536x1141.jpg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":1141,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":238317},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-2048x1521.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1521,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":384266},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-440x327.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":327,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":28780},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-580x431.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":431,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":45402},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-720x535.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":535,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":66289},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-1280x951.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":951,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":174735},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2-1920x1426.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1426,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":345247},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Erster-Preis_Staab-Architekten-GmbH_Berlin_c_Volker-Staab-2.jpg\",\"width\":3000,\"height\":2228}},\n\"alt\" : \"Moderner Wettbewerbsentwurf in Schwarzwei\\u00df mit gro\\u00dffl\\u00e4chigen Glasw\\u00e4nden, offener Innenhofgestaltung und klaren, minimalistischen Linien.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:74.266666666667%; 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In the foreground, the modern new structure made of glass and wood; in the background, the existing museum building with its characteristic sawtooth roofs.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<figcaption class=\"\" id=\"media_mJVyHD\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">First Prize in the Architectural Competition for the Bauhaus-Archiv: Staab Architekten GmbH, Berlin, Perspective of the Tower<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">\u00a9 Staab-Architekten <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>With its triad of materials in glass, smoothed exposed concrete and steel, a combination that is also used in the adjoining one-storey block along Klingelh\u00f6ferstra\u00dfe, the new building fits in well with the lighter existing building, while at the same time discreetly distinguishing itself from it. At the end of this new low-level block, visitors will be welcomed in a cafe accessible to the public. Under a seven-metre high ceiling, the cafe is intended to provide a view of the existing listed building, even without the need for a museum visit.<br><br>Future visitors will also be able to walk from the tower into the basement storey, which adjoins the existing building in a U-shape. This structure also creates a new central atrium with a water pool. Connected to the higher-level areas outside via steps, the atrium forms the spatial core of the design. It is a protected, almost intimate location. Together with the new exhibition spaces, it gives rise to a kind of modern cloister, a courtyard building with a unique atmosphere in which old and new are harmoniously combined. A slightly rising ramp on the south provides another link between the two parts of the building. Inside the museum, it will provide a direct connection to the present entrance hall.<br><br>With its closed rear walls, the U-shaped basement storey for the exhibition level is deliberately shut off from the building\u2019s noisy surroundings \u2013 but despite the density of the site, it gives visitors an unobstructed view of the inner courtyard. These new exhibition spaces in the museum are to be used to present the unique holdings of Berlin\u2019s Bauhaus-Archiv \u2013 in the best possible conditions in terms of air-conditioning and exhibition methods. It will be possible to separate off individual areas for special exhibitions and travelling exhibitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-zitat'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure class='wp-block-ho-quote '>\n\t\t\t<blockquote>\u201cThe requirement to create a single ensemble for the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin that can be experienced and used as an integrated figure is convincingly translated into practice in this design.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Jury statement on the competition design by Staab Architekten<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h5' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>As an architectural task, museum extensions have now been in high demand for many years \u2013 and not only in Germany. There are many reasons for this: increasing numbers of visitors, constantly expanding holdings in collections, changes in the ways in which museums present and convey their collections, and escalating conservational requirements are only a few of the aspects involved in this new flourishing. But architectural tasks that affect existing museum buildings are very different from \u2018normal\u2019 extension and conversion work. The reason for this is that most museum buildings can already be regarded as architectural works of art themselves and were seen in this way by those who created them. Engaging with such high-quality works of architectural art can thus lead to quite varied results. In the worst case, the old and new buildings may prove to be mutually negating.<br><br>For this reason, tremendous experience and a special sensitivity to artistic design are needed in order to enter into dialogue between old and new on an equal footing, so that neither the new element nor the old are injured by one another. The fact that for Volker Staab \u2018what is radical or explicit is not a quality in itself\u2019, as he mentioned during our interview for the NZZ, is a promising aspect here. Instead, what he aims for is \u2018to define the concept of context as broadly as possible.\u2019 He is well aware that there is always a risk of compromise in this. \u2018What I am still always looking for is an uncompromising element \u2013 but without simply minimizing the complex cosmos of the contextual conditions in the process.\u2019 In his design for the Bauhaus-Archiv, he seems to have come very close to achieving this ideal. But his architecture at the same time stands for a conception of modernism that differs from that of Gropius. It has become more mature, more commanding and more tranquil. It is not agitatedly dictating its effect to the location any more; instead, it enters into dialogue with it. It leaves it space to breathe. And there is more: in his idea for the extension of the Bauhaus-Archiv, Staab has given Berlin a blueprint for high quality in an extension building that will need to be matched in the city\u2019s next large museum competition \u2013 with the Museum of 20th Century fitted in between Hans Scharoun\u2019s Philharmonie and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe\u2019s New National Gallery on Potsdamer Stra\u00dfe. It will need to be just as commanding, restrained, but nevertheless striking as Staab\u2019s extension to the Bauhaus-Archiv: a stroke of good fortune for modernism, for the Bauhaus-Archiv, and also for Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern show-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/text-infobox'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-5'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight color-bg-fg-revsersed'>\n\n<div  class='margin-right-2 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 margin-left-2'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-rem-max-width cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-10 col-xs-10 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-4 text-align-center margin-top-4'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'><em>The article was first published in the Bauhaus-Archiv\u2019s volume \u201eMoving forward\u201c in 2015 and has been updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the architectural competition in 2015, J\u00fcrgen Tietz takes a look at the successful design by Staab Architekten and the journey to a new museum building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":363,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"artist_taxonomy":[],"teaser_indicator":[],"magazin_tag":[],"magazine-article-type":[],"magazine-article-category":[96],"magazine-article-author":[104],"class_list":["post-12157","magazine-article","type-magazine-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","magazine-article-category-architecture","magazine-article-author-juergen-tietz-en"],"acf":{"seo_titel":"","keywords":"","noindex":false,"redirect":"","short_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article\/12157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26941,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article\/12157\/revisions\/26941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_taxonomy?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"teaser_indicator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teaser_indicator?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"magazin_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazin_tag?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-type?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-category?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-author?post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}