New Churches St. Luke & St. Matthew / Meixner Schlüter Wendt

The existing ensemble consisting of a childcare facility and the Lukaskirche (Church of St. Luke) is being expanded to feature a new church square, a new parish hall, and the new outer church. The new and enlarged ensemble with the combination of old and new builds reflects the fact that in the course of advancing existing structures, the users by having to give up old builds in exchange for the new, frequently have to bid farewell to the past and try and make the new their own. The site extends, as if along a timeline, from west to east, starting with the childcare center and the existing church and moving into the new parish hall, creating a kind of "building history" which is open-ended thanks to the outer church. The latter, as a constructed intermediate state, can be read ambivalently as half-open/half-closed, and using construction to depict a process. As a realm of possibilities and as an open space in both senses it points to the future.