DOPPELGÄNGER RELOADED
Winner
Excellent Architecture
Architecture
Details
The Stuttgart villa was the residence and studio of the artist Adolf Hölzel. The goal of the Hölzel Foundation was to return the 100-year-old existing building to its original purpose. In addition to a careful renovation, it was to be supplemented by further uses. For this purpose, the existing building itself became the design theme: it was copied, moved and reinserted. The DOPPELGÄNGER becomes visible through its decolorization and develops a tension between the existing and the new building.
The Jury‘s Statement
The idea of extending the historic existing building with a discolored duplicate of the original as an annex is extraordinary and makes the whole newly created object unique.
