Turgut Dhonau

The main feature of my project for the Aachen Museum is the Carolingian Imperial Palace dated 789.
My objective is to focus on the architectural complex comprising buildings dated up tuo 1300 years ago:-
1. The Dome of the Palatine Chapel
2. The Town Hall built on the foundations of the Royal Hall
3. The Domsingschule built on the site of the Law Courts
4. Th Four-sided arcades which contain which contain the Treasury
5. The Katschof
6. The Granusturm
thus re-invigorating the whole complex. During my study I decided to demolish the Graubner building of the sixties. I consider that the historic buildings facing the Katschof require an understated design emphasising the historic arcades. Wanting to create a "communicative " façade and considering the existence of 5,000 sunlight-sensitive antique fabrics, I postulate a façade where the openings normally obstructed will be glass-filled and become a sort of peep-hole allowing views towards the inside or the outside.
This complex had various uses, some of them generating a link but none of them gave a link to the Granusturm which, unlike the Town Hall, dates from CharleleMagne's reign.
Using the space under the podium on the Katschof, the Town Hall and the Granusturm will be at last linked: the first one through the extension of the stairs of the Ar'Kshen and the second through the basement of the Registrar bureau.
Beyond the exibition the Museum brings back the Roman and Carolingian remains and moreover incorporates the Herb Garden which becomes part othe permanent exibition.
There is also a restaurant and a small hotel which can contribute to the cost of the Museum.
As I have suppressed two classrooms of the students of the Domingschule in order to link everything to the Throne, they will be able to use the roof of the Museum for purposes of recreation, meals and studies, as all these functions presently take place in the basement....

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