Client: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
Architect: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Wien | DMAA
Project period: 2023 until 2028
Services: Planning and site supervision, sanitary engineering, heating technology, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, cooling systems, electrical engineering, communications engineering, building automation, lift and conveyance systems, fire protection engineering, Lighting design (general lighting, scenographic lighting, cinema lighting)
Net costs, building services €: 12,500,000.00
In the heart of Stuttgart, an inspiring space for the world of moving images is taking shape. The House for Film and Media combines traditional and modern media formats – from film and animation to games and forward-looking technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, it will serve as a vibrant meeting place for creatives and the entire urban community.
The new building, covering approximately 4,000 square meters, is designed as an open house that enhances people’s media skills and thereby promotes social participation.
The structure consists of nine levels: technical facilities are located in the two basement floors, the ground floor (transformer station), the fifth floor, and on the roof.
The ground floor features dining facilities, while the fifth and sixth floors house two cinemas. Other areas include several multipurpose rooms, pop-up auditoriums, and administrative areas with workshops. Open-grid ceilings create a visual transition between indoor and outdoor spaces while providing flexible access to technical infrastructure. The entrance area is defined by a wide, open staircase. A photovoltaic and media façade surrounds the top two floors, while the other levels are extensively greened. The large outdoor areas include water features, urban biotopes to protect biodiversity, open spaces for temporary pavilions, and exhibition areas.
The building is classified as a special structure, a high-rise, and an assembly venue, complemented by a composite beam structural system. The electrical engineering meets extremely high standards, with correspondingly advanced equipment specifications. Due to space constraints created by the nine-story design, the building requires a highly compact construction with tightly optimized heights and dimensions, demanding precisely integrated building services. The technical building equipment (TGA) is seamlessly incorporated into the overall concept so that ventilation, climate control, energy supply, IT-integrated systems, and green façade elements remain visible design features.
The highest standards for controlled light distribution, glare reduction, energy efficiency, and controllability shape the general lighting for visitor and exhibition spaces. Rectangular recessed downlights are discreetly embedded flush within the joints of the large grid ceiling panels. Track lighting for scenographic illumination to highlight exhibits is also installed in the ceiling joints, arranged in a crisscross pattern alternating with load-bearing rails for movable partitions. Track spotlights can be adjusted for brightness at the fixture head, allowing quick and simple changes for new exhibitions without programming effort.
The sweeping staircase leads visitors to the bel étage and foyer, where a media wall accompanies the staircase up to the upper floors. Like a reflection of this media wall, the light of widely spaced ceiling tiles arranged in the ceiling cavity is captured by the grid ceiling in the foyer. Each tile is individually controllable, forming a DMX-controlled pixel of a low-resolution video display. The illuminated ceiling tiles extend into the building overhangs, dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior. The cinema halls echo the exhibition concept’s pixel motif with a grid-like arrangement of color-changing recessed ceiling downlights and equally precise wall light arrangements.
Images: © DMAA / Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
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