Sven Adams

TASK
For the next generation embarking on the Christian pilgrimage,which debuted on World
Youth Day in Cologne,a new concept of hotel design is proposed.One which will incorporate
fresh concepts found within the modern hotel sector thus articulating the intent of the current
day pilgrimage,synthesizing both contemporary religion and lifestyle.
Furthermore,this task addresses the significance of Cologne’s churches as urban benchmarks
in the ‘New-City’,of which currently all were built simultaneously at the close of the 19th
century to be recognized as major urbanistic projects.
The paradigm of the ‘Sacred-Heart-of-Jesus-Church’,whose eastern portion was fragmentarily
reconstructed after the Second World War,lends a vast planning potential as a virtual rural
setting emerges at the former grandeur of the central avenue of the city.With the projected
superstructure of the ensemble of architectural miniatures urban shortfalls are resolved
without abolishing the constructional contemporary witnesses of the fifties.

DESIGN
In the immediate space of the war-destroyed apse of the church this design provides the
pilgrim the capsule hotel.The goal is to achieve a cultural revitalization of an inner-city
space,an attempt previously embarked upon in Cologne,yet,through interminable clean-up
operations was buried in oblivion.The existing church,richly contrasted between Neo-gothic
and Reconstruction architectural archetypes,attempts to create a fresh high profile in the city
with the building of the new structure.In the course of the new building task the first floor
sacraments chapel will be part of the design solution.
The design description of the building assembles two primary modules.
The first module is a vertical standing U-form,which at the height of the gutter and building
width is reminiscent of the former churches transept.
One,on 10m high columns,carried horizontal laid bale displays the second module.It is based
on the original destroyed ambulatory.Buttresses which perpetuate the existing abutments of
the church in the façade express the unifying elements between church and hotel.

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