DEA Vogelweh Kleeblatt / Molter-Linnemann Architekten

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Text description provided by the architects. Early last year the Technische Werke Kaiserslautern started work on the new lay-out for the water distribution network in order to hook up the US-housing area of Team Vogelweh. One of the two new distribution nodes was going to end up at the western city entrance, at the Vogelweh road intersection. The required volume was determined by the technical installations, storage and back-up systems. As it turned out, this volume was fairly substantial, almost too large for the limited space available on the Vogelweh-Kleeblatt. The City of Kaiserslautern and the TWK were well aware that a building, on this prominent location, the very city entrance and the doorstep of the world renowned Team Vogelweh, was going to receive a lot of attention. Therefore the TWK insisted that the project should not look like a bulky, singular unit. If possible, the building should underplay its size; perhaps look like an ensemble of small buildings. Furthermore, the building should do justice to the location and it should be visually present in a relevant, meaningful and interesting way. Naturally the costs should be kept as low as would be realistically possible. These conflicting parameters determined the architectural project-brief.