New construction of the Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism at Königsplatz in Munich. Permanent exhibition, temporary exhibition, seminar rooms, conference room, library, administration

Munich Documentation Center for the history of National Socialism

Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

→ View of Brienner Straße

Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

→ Atrium of exhibition area

Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

→ Hall

Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

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→ Foyer on the ground floor

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→ First floor: exhibition

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→ Second floor: exhibition

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→ Longitudinal section

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Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

→ View from Königsplatz

Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

→ Exhibition area

Figure: Stefan Müller, Berlin

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→ Site plan

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Procedure: design competition including preceding application procedure, 2009

Rank: 1st prize

Completion: 2014

Gross floor space: 5,000 m²

Gross cubic content: 21,000 m³

Client: City of Munich

Built on the premises of the former NSDAP headquarters, the Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism is a fragmentary reminder of the earlier urban-architectural situation between Königsplatz and Karolinenplatz without reviving, however, the once symmetrical arrangement of buildings on both sides of Brienner Straße. On the contrary: rebuilding on the premises of the “Brown House” adds an...