Torhaus B: Renovation completed, university moves in

With the gradual move from the former institute building K 10 to the renovated Torhaus B, all departments of the ASL faculty will be located on the north extension of the Holländischer Platz campus in the future. The ASL department already occupies Torhaus A there, the new institute building inaugurated in 2016, the so-called Hafeka and Hafeka laboratory buildings, the Kolben-Seeger building, and a smaller half-timbered building. 

The three-story Torhaus B dates from around 1930, and was used by the former Gottschalk company as a sewing shop and for shipping. In recent years, the striking brick building has been extensively renovated for energy efficiency, repaired and converted to make it barrier-free. A large multifunctionally equipped seminar room, which will also be used as a studio, was set up in an annex dating from 1951 and serving as a storage room. In the main building, four departments of architecture are moving in, to which four spacious student workrooms can be assigned.

The main usable area of Torhaus B is around 980 square meters. Together with Torhaus A opposite, it will in future form the entrance with which the ASL complex opens up to Gottschalkstrasse and thus to the Gottschalkviertel. 

The total cost of the conversion, including the initial fit-out, was around 5.8 million and was financed by the HEUREKA program of the Hessian state government. The client was the Landesbetrieb Bau und Immobilien Hessen (LBIH). 

The last building to be converted for the ASL department is the former production hall of the Gottschalk company behind Torhaus A. The university is aiming to complete preparations before the end of 2018, with a visible start to construction in early 2019. Student workrooms and departmental workshop areas are expected to be created there on around 2200 square meters by 2020. Until the production hall is handed over, some student project spaces will continue to remain in Building K 10. 


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Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
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