David Chipperfield Architects complete historic building conversion in western Germany
After three years of construction, the Jacoby Studios in Paderborn, Western Germany has been completed. It was converted from a historic building complex and extended by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. The building serves Tap Holding as their new company headquarters. The site was originally a seventeenth century Capuchin monastery which was converted into a hospital from 1841 onwards. The Jacoby Studios project removed much of the post-World War II additions, exposing the hidden historic character of the monastery. Quarry-stone masonry from the original building resurrected the lost aesthetic of the original building. New extension wings have been arranged following the orthogonal structure to the north, west, and south of the original buildings. "Rooted in an appreciation of its complex historical context, the Jacoby Studios create a new urbanistic whole out of fragments," said David Chipperfield in a statement. "The project combines a wide range of the practice’s experience...
After three years of construction, the Jacoby Studios in Paderborn, Western Germany has been completed. It was converted from a historic building complex and extended by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. The building serves Tap Holding as their new company headquarters.
The site was originally a seventeenth century Capuchin monastery which was converted into a hospital from 1841 onwards. The Jacoby Studios project removed much of the post-World War II additions, exposing the hidden historic character of the monastery. Quarry-stone masonry from the original building resurrected the lost aesthetic of the original building.
New extension wings have been arranged following the orthogonal structure to the north, west, and south of the original buildings.
"Rooted in an appreciation of its complex historical context, the Jacoby Studios create a new urbanistic whole out of fragments," said David Chipperfield in a statement. "The project combines a wide range of the practice’s experience...
