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Lightweight-aggregate concrete addition for classicistic museum

Photos: gäbele&raufer.architekten,BDA

Classicistic beauty: The museum, built in 1841, following decades of use as a cinema theater, is today, as Museum Biedermann, once more a site of art

Photos: gäbele&raufer.architekten,BDA

The old existing building was rehabilitated and supplemented on the rear by a new annex of architectural colored black Liapor lightweight concrete

The shape and material quality, as well as the monolithic construction of the new building, create a marked interplay with the existing classicistic building

In Donaueschingen, Germany, the business and art-collector couple Margit und Lutz Biedermann commissioned the rehabilitation of a classicistic museum building on the River Brigach in southwest Germany and extend-
ed it by adding a monolithic annex consisting of lightweight concrete colored black with Liapor and featuring an architec-
tural concrete finish. They created a composition of old and new that captivates the viewer through its shape, material, and monolithic construction.

The classicistic museum build-
ing was built in 1841 by the Do-naueschingen Museum Society. A...

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