On the Mönchengladbach campus of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Hall H (Department of Textile and Clothing Technology) is to be redesigned. The construction of a new building is planned along Rheydter Strasse. The replacement machine hall closes the line on Rheydter Strasse and connects to the rear of the campus, which has already been partially dismantled. The height of the new building should fit into the context of the surrounding existing buildings. The university wants a transparent building that opens up to Rheydter Straße and is barrier-free. By making the facade towards Rheydter Straße transparent, the processes of textile finishing are to be made visible to the outside as a “window to research”. In addition, new seminar room areas for university use are to be realized in the building.

After completion of the replacement building and the relocation of the finishing technology to Rheydter Straße, the previously used and not listed rear area of Hall H will initially serve as an interim solution for the spinning mill, which is currently located in the front, listed area of Hall H. The cleared, front listed area is to be fundamentally refurbished for future use by the spinning mill. After the renovation measures have been completed and the spinning mill has withdrawn, the rear area of Hall H, which is not listed, will be dismantled (see also the procedure in Chapter 5.6).

When upgrading the hall, the access concept must be redesigned, taking barrier-free access and short distances into account. All hall and stairway doors have to be renewed, the toilet rooms as well as the hall and hall floor coverings have to be renovated and the technical systems modernized. A facade renovation including the roof areas is also part of the scope of the core renovation. The part of the facade to be redesigned towards the center of the campus must take into account the requirements of monument protection in its formulation and design. After initial coordination with the upper monument authority, a glass facade is conceivable here. Optimizing energy consumption should be given a high level of consideration and should be the aim of planning.

The interim solution with storage and partial operation of the machines of the spinning mill in the part of the textile finishing hall to be dismantled is one possibility. This is to be considered and checked in preference to a pure external storage of the machines without operational possibility. When processing the competition task, building logistics solutions are desired.

For the later planning process, in particular for the design of the machine hall, an intensive examination of the production processes and a lively exchange with the users are required.

Please refer to the tender documents for more details.

Project management performance, performance levels 1-5.

The order is optionally placed in stages.