The city of Nuremberg is planning to expand the rotunda of the Congress Hall on the former Nazi Party Rally grounds in Nuremberg for predominantly cultural uses. Here, enabling spaces for art and culture (studios, studios, etc.) as well as an interim for the music (opera) and dance theatre divisions (ballet) of the Nuremberg State Theatre are to be set up. In addition, the expansion is also intended to serve museum purposes and depot uses.
The subject of the services for construction logistics is the service profile according to AHO issue no. 25, service phases 1-8 for the rotunda of the congress hall (without the two head buildings). The planned extension to the interim venue of the Nuremberg State Theatre in the courtyard of the Kongresshalle is not the subject of this award procedure; interfaces to it must be defined. A TÜ award is planned for the additional building.
It is intended to commission the services in stages, sections and, if necessary, in part. For more information, see the tender documents.
Services for construction logistics according to AHO issue no. 25, work phases 1-8, for the rotunda of the congress hall (without the two head buildings), this includes in particular the creation of a construction logistics concept and a construction logistics manual, which regulate and ensure a smooth construction process. It should be noted that the access to the inner courtyard of the Congress Hall is somewhat cramped (a single gate) and that a smooth construction process of both construction projects (expansion of the rotunda congress hall and additional building for the interim venue in the courtyard) is ensured.
The congress hall on the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg essentially consists of two head buildings and the U-shaped so-called rotunda. None of the components were completed. The current "inner courtyard" with an area of approx. 25,000 sqm should originally have accommodated the covered event room for 50,000 people.
In the northern head building is the documentation center Reichsparteitagsgelände (museum use), the southern head building is used by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and there is the "Serenadenhof" for various cultural events. The lower two floors of the five-storey rotunda were mainly used as storage and depot areas by municipal offices, associations and the private sector until the very end. The remaining three upper floors cannot be used, mainly for fire protection reasons. Until 2006, they were used by the large mail order company Quelle as a white goods warehouse and are currently empty.
The rotunda is to be expanded in the future for primarily cultural purposes. This includes the establishment of enabling spaces for art and culture; these can be, for example: studios and studios for the visual and performative arts as well as for musical purposes.
A further possible expansion purpose is the establishment of an interim for the music (opera) and dance theatre divisions (ballet) of the Nuremberg State Theatre as well as the needs of the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, including the equipping trades (mask, tailoring, props, etc.) as well as other facilities required in connection with the operation of the Staatstheater. In addition, the expansion for museum purposes and for depot uses is an option.
The enabling spaces for art and culture are to be completely depicted in the collection. The interim requirements of the State Theatre (approx. 14,600 sqm NUF) can only be accommodated in the collection to the extent of approx. 80%. Approximately 20% require an additional building for uses that require very large rooms (auditorium for 800 people, stage, orchestra pit, rehearsal stage, etc.) as well as for uses that must be close to the stage for functional reasons. The supplementary building is not the subject of this award procedure.
The circular building is an unfinished body shell (torso) which is a five-storey special building of building class 5 within the meaning of Art. 2 para. 3 sentence 1 no. 5 BayBO and the high-rise directive. The existing building is approximately 40 m high, the outer façade has a developed length of approximately 540 m, the facade facing the “inner courtyard” of approx. 410 m. In the final construction, the building should have reached a height of approximately 70 m.
The five main floors comprise the base floor, which is accessible from the outside and from the "inner courtyard", the arcaded floor, which can only be accessed from the outside via stairs and ramps (an arcade about 540 m long connects the northern and southern head buildings), two upper floors, which would originally have served to open up the unbuilt ranks of the event hall, and at the top a purely technical floor.
In addition to the five main floors, the building has four mezzanine floors. These are: a circumferential installation corridor below the toilet cores between the arcade and the 1st floor, adjoining rooms above the toilet cores between the 1st and 2nd floor, a courtyard-side surrounding installation corridor below the lower roof (former colonnade level) between the 1st and 2nd floors and 16 large-volume former technical rooms between the 2nd and 3rd floors above the internal staircases. The "inner courtyard" can also be used by buses and trucks from the east side via a single large gate.