GEORG KOLBE MUSEUM
Natur – Architektur – Skulptur
Location: Berlin- Charlottenburg
Client: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin – Historic Garden Preservation
Year: 2019
Service Phases: Preparation and Brief, Concept Design, Developed Design, Technical Design, Construction, Handover & Close Cut (HOAI 1–9)
Area: 2.700 m²
Construction costs : 155.000 €
Georg Kolbe’s choice of location expresses a turning away from the hustle and bustle of the city and a turning towards nature. The architects traced the spatial edges of the “Hohlweg” in the forest with their buildings and built the desired “castle” as a refuge. This separates the semi-public front garden from the intimate, more natural “meadow space”. The largely preserved, moving topography (terra) and the trees (coelum), which in contrast to it reach for the sky, prepare the ground in their simplicity and form the background for life and art.
The open space having formed in the truest sense of the word was and is neither an idealised landscape garden in the sense of an exaggerated landscape, nor a designed garden landscape. Rather, it is a forest landscape adapted with the simplest of means, but with a great sense of atmosphere and effect.
In this sense, the intended measures also follow less a design or concept than the presumed original intentions of developing liveable spaces in which people gain distance from the everyday world, and art comes into its own in nature.
