Youth centre Wangen Conversion
task: Building made with students, young people from the youth centre company after wishes of the youngsters. Installation of "stitch-workshop" as the first meeting point and planning workshop. Moving from the old youth centre into the new one. Transportation of 30 cbm soil on to the rooftop with a bucket chain.
process: Dezember 1983 - Dezember 1984
performers: 20 young people from youth centre, 5-people-buildinggroup from the youth centre e.V. (job creation scheme)
location: Youth centre Wangen, Eybacherstraße
client: Stuttgarter Jugendhaus e.V.
construction costs: 75.000,- €
cooperation: Nachbarn
elements: tesslations in toilets and kitchen, floors made out of marble breaks, spiral staircase made out of resting tiles, Sgraffitto-Wall in entrance area, production of tables and chairs, fitting counter, building of a greenhouse with snake-well and terrarium, etc.
prizes: 1985, Deutscher Architekturpreis, Auszeichnung für Innenausbau und Außenanlagen, 1987, Hugo Häring Medaille für Innenausbau Jugendhaus Wangen
publications: Deutsche Bauzeitung 8/85, Garten&Landschaft 7/97