Kulturfabrik Kofmehl / ssm Architekten

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Text description provided by the architects. When the critic, in his early forties, already while leafing through the programme on the website, begins to feel like snow white in the forest - mesmerised, but also without a clue and any orientation -, then the makers of the Kofmehl deserve the credit of a subculture that the youth culture intends to be. "The Koofmäu" (with a neutral connotation - it - such as for the "Konsum" which gives a notion of familiarity and intimacy of the local village life) represents as an institution a coherent system of social and cultural codes, that on first glance has little to do with contemporary architecture. The architectural symbol of the youth culture is found in abandoned barracks, warehouses and stalls that were occupied in the 1980s by angry youth who played colourful electric guitars and drums through loudspeakers on black walls as a sign of protest.