Ravensburg Art Museum

Ravensburg Art Museum, 2013

To learn from the long tradition of building without falling into historicism is the decisive approach used for the design of the new art museum in Ravensburg. To exhibit the modern art that constitutes the basis of the Peter and Gudrun Selinka Collection, spaces with a strong sense of enclosure have been created, with window openings only at selected locations. The corporeal nature of this architecture is especially apparent in the vaulted brick shells on the upper level.

The architectural insertion on the southern edge of Ravensburg’s old town is only discernable upon second glance. It is an art museum that, through impressive craftsmanlike qualities, familiar materials, beautiful junctures and a well-functioning floor plan, fits harmoniously and unobtrusively into the historical context of the city. This integration is emphasized as an important point of reference for the design. The building is not meant to establish a strong contrast through modernity, but instead to fit harmoniously and self-evidently into a townscape that has developed over centuries.

Upon the very first glance, the new museum appears familiar. The building’s integration into the urban fabric and the materiality of its recycled brickwork are the sources of this ambiguity, which responds to the special qualities of this central location. The simple spatial concept – an entrance court to rectangular and neutral exhibition spaces that are flanked by circulation elements in the middle – is enclosed with an outer shell of recycled bricks. The roof is built as a vaulted structure of brick shells that span the entire width of the space.

The bricks were recovered from a demolished monastery near the Belgian border and through their reuse, point to the central role of sustainability in construction. Why should new materials be produced when we can recycle old ones that have proven themselves over centuries? Old and yet new – even in terms of sustainability, the contrast is clear.

The art museum has been built to passive house standards. The building is supplied with air, heat and cooling only as needed and is designed to reduce its primary energy input to a bare minimum. The overall system is controlled and monitored by a BMS and it is operated and supervised by the energy provider via a control centre. Heat is generated by a gas absorption heat pump. A geothermal probe field serves as the heat source. In the summer, the heat pump works as a chiller. The heating and cooling distribution system supplies the air-conditioning equipment, including downstream zones, as well as the concrete core temperature control.

Client:
Reisch Bau GbR, Bad Saulgau, Germany

Architects:
Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei, Stuttgart, Germany

Site supervision:
Schenk Architektur, Bad Saulgau

Structural Engineering:
Ingenieurbüro Schneider & Partner Planungsgesellschaft mbH, Ravensburg

Energy concept / Heating / Ventilation / Air conditioning:
Herz und Lang, Schongau, Germany
Vogt und Feist, Ravensburg, Germany

Electrical Engineering:
Ingenieurbüro Sulzer GmbH & Co. KG, Vogt

Gross floor area:
1,900 square meters

Gross volume:
8,300 cubic meters

Competition:
2009 – 1st prize

Construction period:
2010 – 2012 / 2013 (including interiour finsih)

Location:
Burgstraße 9, 88212 Ravensburg, Germany

Awards
Auszeichnung „Beispielhaftes Bauen Landkreis Ravensburg 2010-2016”

Nominiert für Staatspreis Baukultur Baden-Württemberg 2016

Museum des Jahres 2015

Finalist Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture 2015:

DAM Preis für Architektur in Deutschland 2014

Wienerberger Brick Award 2014

Hugo-Häring-Auszeichnung 2014
BDA Bodensee

Passive House Award 2014

Auszeichnung „Balthasar-Neumann-Preis 2014

Nominierung zum Fritz-Höger-Preis 2014

Anerkennung Auszeichnung „PROM des Jahres 2013”

Deutscher Architekturpreis 2013

Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis 2013
Sonderpreis „Nachhaltiges Bauen”

Flächenrecyclingpreis Baden-Württemberg 2013

Europäischer Architekturpreis Energie + Architektur 2012

Publications
Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei 2
Lederer, Arno / Ragnarsdóttir, Jórunn / Oei, Marc (Hg.)
Jovis Verlag Berlin 2021

Edition Hochparterre (Hg):
Grundrissfibel Museumsbauten – 39 Architekturwettbewerbe in der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland
Edition Hochparterre, 2017

Philip Jodidio (Hg):
100 contemporary Brick Buildings, 2017
TASCHEN GmbH, 2017

Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Wohnungsbau (Hg):
Staatspreis Baukultur Baden-Württemberg (Broschüre)
12 | 2016

Edition Detail:
best of Detail – Materials + Finishes
Institut für internationale Architektur-Dokumentation GmbH & Co.KG, München
2016

Detail
6 | 2016

Stavebnictiví a interiér
3 | 2016

Ministerium für Verkehr und Infrastruktur Baden-Württemberg (Hg.):
Staatspreis Baukultur Baden-Württemberg 2016
2016

Zeitkunst
1 | 2016

Stuttgarter Zeitung
30.12.2015

Conarquitectura
10 | 2015

Andrew Michler (Hg.):
Hyperlocalization of Architecture. Contemporary Sustainable Archetypes.
eVolo Press, Los Angeles, 2015

Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA, Landesverband Baden-Württemberg (Hg.):
Architektur in Baden-Württemberg 2015.
Hugo-Häring-Auszeichnung. Hugo-Häring Landespreis
Karl-Krämer-Verlag Stuttgart, 2015
ISBN 978-3-7828-4056-9

Fundació Mies van der Rohe (Hg.):
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. Barcelona, 2015.
ISBN 978-84-941836-0-7.

Fundacio Mies van der Rohe (concept) / Nihao Films (production):
FINALIST 2015 – Ravensburg Art Museum, Ravensburg, Germany by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei – EU Mies Award
Link: www.miesarch.com
5 | 2015

Neue Zürcher Zeitung
19.03.2015

centras
3 | 2015

Ziegel detail
Ziegel Zentrum Süd
München 2015

Passive House Award
2nd Passive House Architecture Award
Award Recipients & Finalists
Passiv House Institute
Darmstadt 2014

Brick 14. Ausgezeichnete Ziegelarchitektur International.
Wienerberger (Hg.)
München: Callwey Verlag 2014
ISBN 978-3-7667-2074-0

Schatzkammer Oberschwaben. Unterwegs zur Kunst zwischen Ulm und dem Bodensee.
Rolf Waldvogel (Text), Volker Strohmaier (Fotos) (Hg.)
Biberach 2014

Architekturpreis Farbe Struktur Oberfläche.
Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke von Robert Murjahn Stiftung & Co. KG
Gesellschaft für Knowhow-Transfer in Architektur und Bauwesen mbH
Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2014

MEMAR 86
8-9 | 2014

architektur-technik
9 | 2014

Moderne im Kontext
Archipendium Edition
Archimap Publishers
9 | 2014

DBZ
8 | 2014

DBZ
6 | 2014

Costruire in Laterizio
4 | 2014

Stuttgarter Zeitung
04.02.2014

Beton und Zement
1 | 2014

Deutschlandradio, Fazit
31.01.2014

Schatzkammer Oberschwaben
Unterwegs zur Kunst zwischen Ulm und dem Bodensee
Rolf Waldvogel (Text), Volker Strohmaier (Fotos) (Hg.)
Biberach: Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei 2014
ISBN: 978-3-943391-37-4

Ausgezeichnete Architektur- und Ingenieurbaukunst.
50 preisgekrönte Bauten – Best of Germany 2014/15
Andreas Gottlieb Hempel
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz,
Bau und Reaktorsicherheit (BMUB) /
Bundesarchitektenkammer /
Bundesstiftung Baukultur /
Bundesingenieurkammer (Hg.)
Callwey Verlag München
2014

Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA, Kreisgruppe Bodensee
„Architektur in Baden-Württemberg“ 2014

Mauerwerksbau aktuell 2014.
Praxishandbuch für Architekten und Ingenieure.
Beuth-Verlag GmbH Berlin Wien Zürich 2014

Arquitectura Viva
12 | 2013

exé Architecture Détail Technique
No. 14, 10 | 2013

ar The Architectural Review
9 | 2013

Brick Bulletin
9 | 2013

architektur Fachmagazin
6-7 | 2013

DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift
7 | 2013

Architektur international
7 | 2013

Neue Zürcher Zeitung
25.6.2013

Bauwelt
6 | 2013

Deutsches Architektenblatt
6 | 2013