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© raumlaborberlin, 2013, HOTEL shabbyshabby
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Have you ever wondered why hotel
rooms are rarely places you’d gladly
fall asleep or wake up in? They often
present you with ghastly carpets,
antiseptic surfaces, perfidious artworks
and dreadfully decorated walls, not to
mention a disappointing view and a
catastrophic hotel bar. Is it so difficult to
design a room where someone would
enjoy spending a night? A room that
offers a unique view, a divine bed and
is as snug a beaver’s den?
In May 2014, we invite all creative
geniuses, students of architecture and
professionals in search of a commission to build the hotel room of their
dreams. Made from the city of Mannheim’s trash, 20 single hotelcabins
with ‚individual comfort‘ will be created.
They will be set up and installed in
selected locations around the city: in
parks, next to statues, along the banks
of the Rhine and the Neckar, on the
site of former US barracks and on the
roofs of houses. They will be designed
by 20 groups and set up in a purposebuilt construction camp from 16–23
May 2014.
The HOTEL shabbyshabby will take
place in the context of the Theater
der Welt 2014 festival in Mannheim.
Theater der Welt is one of the most
significant international theatre festivals
in Germany and presents the most
innovative trends in theatre from across
the world in a different German city
or region every three years. From 23
May to the 8 June, the festival will
take place in Mannheim hosted by the
Nationaltheater Mannheim under the
curation of Matthias Lilienthal, the former artistic director of Berlin’s HAU and
future artistic director of the Münchner
Kammerspiele.
With the HOTEL shabbyshabby project,
the festival invites residents of
Mannheim to reverse their perspectives
of a city. It will hopefully seem strange
and unfamiliar to them. And of course
visitors from outside the region are
welcome to spend a night, too.
The reception and breakfast room of
HOTEL shabbyshabby that will be dispersed throughout the town will be at a
central location at the Nationaltheater
Mannheim.
Requirements:
The rooms that you design have to be
dry, weather resistant and have locks.
They have to consist of mostly used
or recycled materials of your choice
(except for the beds and bedclothes).
The rooms will not have bathrooms
nor electricity. The standard of accommodation will then of course rather
be comparable to a mountain hut.
They should have a view that gives an
unusual slant to its surroundings, and a
unique architectural design. There are
different categories of location that you
can choose from: a rooftop, a square,
a garden or a hall, for example. The
application form lists six examples
of locations. The exact places will be
revealed in spring once negotiations
with the city administration have been
concluded.
Simon Faithful - Mobile Research Station No.1 / 2009
Bellastock - The Sandy Shop / 2010
HOTEL
SHABBYSHABBY
In the jury for the best designs are:
Gilly Karjevsky
72 Hour Urban Action, Tel Aviv
Pedro Gadanho
MoMA, New York
Anne Catherine Fleith
Feld72, Wien
Lukasz Lendzinski
Umschichten, Stuttgart
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
raumlaborberlin
Alexander Römer
Exyzt, Paris, Berlin
Marjetica Potrc
Artist and Architect, Ljubljana
Send your designs to
[email protected]
by 31 January 2014
More information can be found in the
application forms (attached) or at ARTE
Creative: http://creative.arte.tv/de
Audience prize
The users of ARTE Creative will decide
on two hotel designs via online voting.
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Foto Mark Hegewald
application information
Conditions
Any person may participate. As the
hotel rooms have to be constructed
single-handedly in seven days, a group
application is recommended (maximum 6 persons). As we have a limited
intake, all group members have to be
set at the time of the application. All applicants have to be available during the
construction period from 16–25 May
2014 and be able to be in Mannheim.
Prizes + costs
Participation is free.
The selected groups will be invited to
Mannheim to carry out their designs
in the construction period from 16–23
May 2014. In Mannheim we will provide
food and accommodation, a workshop
for everyone, tools, material and expert
+ craftsmanship support. Only the
costs of travelling to Mannheim have to
be covered by the participants.
Live Architecture Camp
The construction camp is an important part of the process. You will all be
living in the same location to encourage regular exchange, getting to know
each other, and mutual inspiration. The
camp, the kitchen and the workshop
will be designed and provided by us
by the time you arrive. As people in
Mannheim should notice your presence
in the city, some parts of the camp (not
the beds) will be outdoors.
The design
The design of the rooms should be
conceived so that people can sleep
pleasantly and have a memorable
experience in them. The quality of
the inner areas and communication
towards the exterior bear equal weight.
How is the view out of the openings in
the morning and in the evening? What
is the light like? Who can look in? How
safe do I feel? The appearance of the
room within the city also plays a role.
Is it hidden or can it be see from afar?
Who can spend the night here best and
in what state?
We will occupy locations in very
prominent places in the city: next to
statues, on terraced rooftops, in shop
windows or on the banks of the Neckar.
But there will also be hidden places:
in parks, back courtyards or in former
US barrack sites. Some will be unique
kinds of places, and others will be
places that can be found everywhere.
You will decide what kind of location
your room should be in by describing
the ideal conditions. We will then allocate the hotels to the respective places
or suggest locations that have been
approved by the city administration or
owners. You may adapt the design to
the location.
Attached you will find photos and plans
of 6 examples of locations. They are all
along a tangent along the city center.
Choose one of them or make your own
suggestions.
Water, sewage pipe and electricity are
not immediately available at any of
these locations. We will try to find individual, pragmatic and obvious solutions
for the most essential needs.
Every team will receive a set of mattresses, bedclothes, a battery torch,
possibly a washbowl, a rubbish bin and
a padlock etc. to use.
Every group has a material budget of
€250.
Construction material should consist
mainly of recycling or loaned material.
In as far as it is possible, please let us
know in advance the kinds of material
you need. We will then organise it and
have it ready for you on site.
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more application information
Application requirements:
1. Plans and illustrations
(max 3 sheets of A3)
Models should be illustrated on 3 pages of A3 – please do not send models!
Give your hotelroom a suitable name.
2. Explanatory text (1 sheet of A4)
3. A list of ALL participants in your
group and a short description of who
you are.
Your design should be depicted in such
a way that your main idea is comprehensible to the jury and your materials/
construction procedure recognisable.
In addition, you should illustrate where
the room will be located in the city and
what relation it has to its surroundings. Give your hotel room a name that
characterises it. And please state your
desired tools for its construction.
Application format + address
Please send all your documents in PDF
format
by 31 January 2014
to [email protected]
The designs will be presented online
from 1 February 2014 at ARTE Creative and released for voting. Those
who do not wish their designs to be
published online must clearly state this!
The team will be excluded from the
online vote in that case.
ARTE Creative will document the
project on video.
Jury
Gilly Karjevsky
72 Hour Urban Action, Tel Aviv
Pedro Gadanho
MoMA, New York
Anne Catherine Fleith
Feld72, Wien
Lukasz Lendzinski
Umschichten, Stuttgart
raumlaborberlin
Alexander Römer
Exyzt, Paris/Berlin
Marjetica Potrc
Artist and Architect, Ljubljana
Partner
HOTEL shabbyshabby
is a cooperation of Theater der Welt
2014, raumlaborberlin, Umschichten,
and ARTE Creative
Dates
Call for proposals and the beginning of
the application process
3 December 2013
Theater der Welt 2014, a festival by the
German ITI, hosted by Nationaltheater
Mannheim, sponsored by the City of
Mannheim, the Baden-Württemberg
Stiftung and the Federal Government
Commissioner for Culture and Media.
Questions can be sent to
[email protected]
until 8 December 2013
Answers to these questions
will be visible for everyone on our
website from
12 December 2013
Hand in designs latest by
31 January 2014 (date of email)
Publication of designs by ARTE Creative
1 February 2014
Jury meeting
14 February 2014
Notification of winners
February 2014
Then the locations will be negotiated,
material will be found and the designs
will be adjusted if necessary.
Construction period in Mannheim
16–23 May 2014
Use as hotel rooms
23 May–8 June 2014
funded by the City of Mannheim
with friendly support of
IKEA Mannheim.
Project manager:
Festival directors: Matthias Lilienthal
and Burkhard C. Kosminski
Programme director: Matthias Lilienthal
The complete project will be accompanied, published and can be followed on
ARTE Creative see our first trailer here:
http://creative.arte.tv/de
Facebook: Shabby Shabby
Fotos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/110378926@N06/
email: [email protected]
www.raumlabor.info
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Mannheim
When you come to Mannheim for the
first time, the city seems familiar and
unfamiliar at the same time. At first
glance, it looks like a typical West
German city, obviously destroyed
during World War II, then rebuilt in
the 1950s. It’s not very pretty but it’s
functional. A few preserved or restored buildings from the Kurfürsten
or Wilhelmine periods alternate with
austere 1950s flats and everything that
followed. Whether it’s the structure of
the buildings or the city’s urban layout,
everything is square, practical and
reliable. The streets in the inner city do
not have names; they have letters and
numbers, blocks rather than streets,
L5, M2, K3, and B7. Designed a few
years before Manhattan, this square
city is not nestled between the Hudson
Paradeplatz in the heart of the center
Empty warehouses and wastelands in the Jungbusch neighbourhood
and East River but at the confluence
of the Rhine and Neckar, and is home
to residents from over 170 countries.
After the Thirty Years’ War, they settled
in the destroyed city of Mannheim,
rebuilt the city and created by-laws
based on tolerance and openness
between religions. Industrialization
started some time later, attracted more
people and turned Mannheim into a
colourful, mixed workers’ city. After
World War II, history repeated itself to a
great extent. The US army stayed and
occupied the former Wehrmacht barracks, the economic upswing brought
guest workers, and the rebuilding of
the town made it car-friendly. Streets,
flyovers and bridges were built, linking
Mannheim with Ludwigshafen across
the Rhine, keeping the traffic moving
Schillerplatz with raumlabor installation 2013
underneath the Rhinebridges in the castle garden
and guiding eager shoppers from the
surrounding countryside into the city
centre. Whereas other cities upkeep
old gardens, Mannheim thinks in practical terms. Across the green expanses
at the back of baroque castle grounds
leading down towards the Rhine that
might evoke an idyll, there is a knot
of flyover bridges and footpaths that
are almost baroque again in their
ornate intricacy. German baroque style
with a touch of French meets 1970s
brutalism par excellence; old beauty
is replaced by concrete, speed and
traffic connections. The city’s most
beautiful buildings are scattered along
the picturesque banks of the Neckar,
simple, brutalist living utopias with fantastic views. Mannheim is real, as the
Mannheimers like to claim; there is no
Schlossplatz, where once the Kurfürst resided, is
now the home of Mannheim`s university
Verbindungskanal in the Jungbusch neighbourhood
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Philosopher’s Walk or Scholar’s’ Circle
as in the nearby, dollhouse-esque town
of Heidelberg. Here things are not
pretty but real, down-to-earth, and for
that very reason, absolutely charming.
And Mannheim is economically healthy.
That is the astonishing fact. A leftover
of the old BRD from the 1980s has
survived – something that has died out
elsewhere in Germany. Whereas jobs
in industry have long since been cut
back in other parts of West Germany,
they are still alive and kicking here: you
can smell the chocolate as it is loaded
at the harbour, and see smoking chimney stacks and industrial sites. On the
horizon where sunsets could conjure
up romantic feelings stands BASF,
the largest chemical plant worldwide
on an area of 10 square kilometres in
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen. This is the backdrop to
harbour cranes loading ships. In the
former area of harbour workers’ living
quarters, who used to spend their free
nights in the red-light districts, new
young creatives are moving into the
docklands and opening bars with a hint
of sailor’s romanticism, or studying pop
music and sharing living quarters with
recent newcomers from southeast
Europe on the lookout for work and
lodgings. US Americans, on the other
hand, who once brought the square
dance to Mannheim and drove a tank
through the city centre, are starting to
leave. They are making way for the
locals, freeing up 500 hectares of land.
How this area will be converted and
newly occupied is the biggest question for the city’s future. Some 290,000
people live in Mannheim, and 38% of
the population come from immigrant
families. Given the choice, the third
generations of these families would
prefer to play on the Mannheim football
team than either the Turkish or German
national teams. That speaks for itself.
For further information (in German),
go to:
https://www.mannheim.de/
http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/
metropolis-mannheim-metropole-derwoche--7704456.html
http://zweidreineun.de/mannheimzoom.html
Alter Messplatz - where business used to happen
Shopping day in the center (Planken)
Watertower in the back
Trashday still exists in Mannheim
Rhine
right - Mannheim / left - Ludwigshafen
Neckarspitze, where the Neckar meets the Rhine
with a marvelous view on BASF-land
Neckar
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selected locations
The selected locations for your Hotel
designs are located along Mannheims
„HOTEL shabbyshabby“ axis, starting
at the old water tower on Friedrichplatz
up to the Neckarstadt.
Choose a site where you want to position your Hotel – but keep in mind: we
might have to offer you an equivalent
location somewhere else in the city.
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More photos to all locations can be
found on our Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/110378926@N06/
Neckarstadt
Site 1: Neckarpromenade
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Site 2: Uferwiesen
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Site 3: Collini-Center
city center/
squares
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Site 4: Nationaltheater
Oststadt
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Site 5: Rosengartenplatz
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Site 6: Friedrichsplatz
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Site 1
Neckarpromenade
type: housing estate
constructed: 1975-82
hight: 100 m
floors: 30
The plans for a reshaping of the
Neckarshore started in the 1960s. The
architect Karl Schmucker intended to
create a modern, metropolitan complex
with office and apartment towers in an
airy, green environment to connect the
city center with the other side of the
Neckar. The master plan proposed 4
towers, with the highest of them directly
on the “Alter Messplatz“(old trade
square). But the protest of the
Mannheim citizens against the demolition of the old fire station there were
successful. So between 1975 and 1982
only 3 towers were built.
The star shaped towers were designed
by Mannheim architects Einald
Sandreuther, Werner Single and
Norbert Schultes. On the southern side
of the towers, Schmucker designed
a chain of terraced apartment blocks.
Integrated in the complex are the CarlBenz-School and the Werner-von-Siemens-School. Carl Benz, the founder
of what is now known as MercedesBenz, lived and worked in Mannheim.
Siemens, the founder of the Siemens
company, has no close relationship
to the city. A central pedestrian zone
connects the different buildings and the
bridge across the Neckar to the ColliniCenter. The whole complex is build
upon a parking deck.
Most people in Mannheim think the
Neckarpromenade is really ugly. But
the whole arrangement offers multiple
choices for great locations for your
HOTEL shabbyshabby. In this PDF you
find just a few images, but have a look
on our flickr account to see more.
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Beispielort 1
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Site 2
Uferwiesen
(Low-meadows at the Collinibridge)
type: green area
But beware!! Your hotel cannot be on
top of or attached to the bridge in anyway, unfortunately we are not inside a
William Gibson novel. And if you decide
to rest your hotel in the river keep in
mind that it is a national transport waterway with numerous restrictions.
The low meadows at the river Neckar
are terrific for all design ideas that work
with a nice view and don’t want to be
bothered by the environment. The long
green meadows are swampy when it
rains, full of hedonists when the sun
comes out and on shallow summer
nights they become Mannheim‘s number one barbecue, rave and drinkingin-public-zone. Yes we can still do that
here in Germany! So goodbye sweet
dreams, dear HOTEL shabbyshabby
guests.
The attractive bridge that connects
the Neckarpromenade towers with the
Collini-Center across the river was built
in the 1970s as part of the replanning
of this area for a national garden show.
This was also the time when the TV
tower of Mannheim was built. You can
see it on some of the images in the
back.
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Site 3
Collini-Center
type: Apartment complex with a two
floor shopping gallery
built: 1971–1975
hight: 102 m
floors: 32
The building is situated picturesquely
at the edge of the city center on the
side of the Neckar. The Collini-Center
is just as disliked by the people of
Mannheim as the towers on the other
side of the river. No wonder it was the
same architect who designed it. The
complex consists of a lower office and
higher apartment tower, both resting
on a two story gallery, which serves
as the entrance lobby to both. The
office tower is the home of the cities
technical services, such as the building
administration, which also supports this
project. So take care what you design
for this place it will always be in front of
the nose of those who have to give the
permission for it.
inhabitants. The passage in the ground
floor is a jewel of 1970s interior design
ambitions.
Including the ceiling, which is a dream
made of triangles in orange, yellow
and brown and a flower bouquet light
column, you also find here a carpet
that shows a birds eye view on the city,
empty shops and a Turkish bath that
has been unused for many years as
the pool has a leak. Towards the Collini
Straße you find a shut down fountain
and on the Hans Böckler Platz,
Mannheim’s first compound for leisure
time drinkers (nice word for alcoholics and homeless people): a roof with
benches hidden behind three billboards. In a funny way this could be
one of those hotel rooms we are asking
you to design, it’s just missing the lock.
You may choose any place in or around
the Collini-Center for your HOTEL
shabbyshabby.
The Center was built as part of the
urban concept that was developed for
the federal garden exhibition in 1975.
Today the apartment tower has 1300
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Site 4
Nationaltheater
Mannheim
type: theatre + opera house
built: 1957
architect: Gerhard Weber
If you choose this site for your design,
you won’t have to carry your Hotel very
far. It has a large stage (Opernhaus,
ca. 1.200 seats) and a smaller stage
(Schauspielhaus, ca. 630 seats).
Both share one large foyer on the
ground floor. It is one of Germany’s
largest city theatres, a specific German
phenomenon, with about 650 employees. It is the oldest communal theatre
of the world and home for the festival
Theater der Welt 2014. The reception
and the breakfast room for HOTEL
shabbyshabby will be situated here,
the camp for the builders, as well as
the workshop where HOTEL shabbyshabby will be built. So it is more than
obvious that a few of the hotel rooms
should be also here. Maybe in the foyer
or next to the tram stop? But keep in
mind that also the hotels designed for
this location might have to be positioned somewhere else in the city.
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Fotos - Nationaltheater
Site 5
Rosengartenplatz
(rose garden square)
love to have someone sleeping in their
back garden. Whoever sleeps here can
brush his teeth in a real hotel.
This is not precisely a square, but the
green strip in front of the cafeteria of
the Hotel Dorint, a parking lot and the
space in front of a series of storefronts
with awkward uses like a center for
magnetic resonance tomography.
Its a typical Mannheim situation: privatized public space surrounded by a colorful potpourri of architecture. Buildings
from different decades and styles with
no relation whatsoever towards each
other. Everything is somehow. Somehow-square would be the right name
for this square. But it’s called Rosengartensquare. The Rosengarten is not
a garden but a congress center built in
1903 by architect Bruno Schmitz. The
restauration and annex was designed
by the same architect as the ColliniCenter and the Neckarpromenade (Karl
Schmucker).
But also a somehow square can have
clearly positive aspects: The little green
lawn is owned by the Hotel Dorint and
the management is very fond of our
HOTEL shabbyshabby idea and would
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Site 6
Friedrichsplatz
type: public square
built: 1885-1907
“The Friedrichsplatz in Mannheim is
one of the few remaining compounds
in Germany in neo baroque style with
integrated elements of art nouveau.
The square is the beginning or end of
a street called Planken, the most important shopping street in the inner city
(squares) perpendicular to the castle
axis. It is also known as the gate to the
city, as everybody coming from east
has to pass the old water tower on the
Friedrichsplatz.
The garden is designed after french
archetypes with a central terraced
fountain, a pergola on both sides and a
wide walkway that surrounds fountain
and tower. The sculptures were designed by Franz Metzner.“
Also to mention is the congress center
Rosengarten on the north side and
the annex of Mannheim´s art museum
(Kunsthalle) on the south side. A
building in the best brutalist tradition,
that is doomed to be torn down next
year because of building defects. The
boring design for the new Kunsthalle
comes from one of Germany’s largest architects firms Gerkan, Marg und
Partner renown for their train stations,
stadiums, airports, castles and Chinese
satellite towns.
On the Friedrichsplatz in may there
will be also a fairground with marry go
rounds and roller coasters. But this will
only be in front of the water tower not in
the garden.
This is how Wikipedia describes the
square. We would rather say: a brummagem garden with a clumsy water
tower, surrounded by loud streets with
many automobiles.
If you decide to position your Hotel
here because it all looks so pretty, don’t
forget the soundproof windows.
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all photos by Arthur Bauer or raumlaborberlin or from the Internet
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