Built in 1976, the Hallschlag children’s and youth center was in a state of disrepair and no longer met modern standards. The Building was therefore to be partially demolished and a new building added. The aim was to combine the interests of the children’s and youth center with the requirements of a daycare center, and to create both areas that could be used by the community and options for the two user groups to have their own spaces.
The existing building had only one floor with a basement and was largely demolished down to the upper edge of the ceiling above the basement. The supporting structure to the hall remained untouched. The structure of the building consists of a solid masonry structure, reinforced concrete walls, reinforced concrete columns in the basement and a pure reinforced concrete structure on the ground floor and first floor. The new ceilings were planned in reinforced concrete as flat ceilings. Above the hall, the timber roof consists of large timber trusses and purlins. The shape is based on the timber roof above the existing hall. The existing strip foundations were reinforced with additional individual foundations to absorb the wall loads from the two-storey extension. The stairwells and the new building, which does not have a basement, were founded on elastically bedded base plates.
All the functions are grouped around the hall. The café, a shared meeting room and a climbing wall are located here. The hall and the auditorium can be connected and used together if required.
