1st rank
School for individual life management, Augsburg, VOF
2001
Rudolf Steiner School in the former AKS administration building
The AKS administration building on Schäfflerbachstrasse was built in two phases between 1952 and 1956 by the Augsburg architect Paul Gerne.The architecture presents itself as a strictly orthogonal atrium complex in the spirit of classical modernism.In 1999, the architectural office of Titus Bernhard won a VOF competition for the construction of a 3-stream Rudolf Steiner School for individual life management with the approach of combining the austere existing building with a flowing, organic architecture for extension areas that does not correspond to the cliché of the usual Waldorf school architecture: new means of expression for anthroposophical architecture were to be found, resulting from the specific situation of the site and the program. The design attempts to make an unconventional contribution to the theme of "conversion" and addresses, among other things, pairs of tensions such as "flowing-static" and "geometric-organic".The illustrations provide an (incomplete) insight into the process of form-finding, the working model shows approximately the state of testing submitted for realization. Start of construction spring 2004