The architecture firm Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid/Berlin) in collaboration with Topotek 1 has been awarded first Prize by the competition jury for the construction of a congress center and hotel in Goslar, state of Lower Saxony, Germany.

The project is located in an area of the historic center in the vicinity of the Imperial Palace originally built in the 11th century and was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1992. The mixed program required for a congress hall of 500 spectators and a hotel of 120 rooms had to adapt to the topographic and historical conditions of the place proposing a new landscape treatment of the environment.
The proposal designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, establishes a dialogue with the three main historical elements of the place: the Imperial Palace (Kaiserpfalz), the footprint of the cloister from the former cathedral, and the remains of the foundations of the medieval wall. The decision to divide the ensemble into three different volumes minimizes the impact of the intervention in the context and respects the memory of the original layout of the wall.

Three quadrate courtyards - an echo of the plan of the historic cloister - articulate the interior spaces of both buildings.

The horizontality of the project is accentuated by means of a wide platform conceived as a landscaped terrace that interacts with the surroundings and unifies the different interventions. The public scale of the congress center and the intimate privacy of the hotel are expressed through the treatment of the windows and the exterior slate cladding on the facades, evoking the historical and traditional material construction of the city of Goslar.
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Fuensanta Nieto (Madrid 1957) and Enrique Sobejano (Madrid 1957), are graduated architects by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and Master of Science in Building Design por la Graduate School of Architecture and Planning (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York (USA). Are partners of the office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, with headquarters in Madrid and Berlín.

Enrique Sobejano is Design Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) and Fuensanta Nieto Fuensanta is an Design Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Both have been guest professors and lecturers at various universities and institutions within and outside Spain. From 1986 to 1991 was Director of ARQUITECTURA magazine, of Official College of Architects of Madrid.

Sobejano Nieto's work has been published in numerous magazines and books in Spanish and international, such as Casabella, METALOCUS, The Sketch, Architectural Review, Domus, Architectural Record, Detail, A + U, etc, and has been exhibited, among other places, Venice Biennale (2000, 2002, 2006) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2006). They have received the National Award for Restoration of the Ministry of Culture (2008), the Nike Prize BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten) (2010) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010).

Among his recent works include Madinat al Zahra Museum (Córdoba), Moritzburg (Germany), Colegio de San Gregorio (Valladolid) and the Conference Centres of Mérida and Zaragoza.

NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS: http://www.nietosobejano.com

 

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Published on: September 3, 2019
Cite: "Nieto Sobejano winners of Congress Center and Hotel competition, in the area of the Imperial Palace of Goslar" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/nieto-sobejano-winners-congress-center-and-hotel-competition-area-imperial-palace-goslar> ISSN 1139-6415
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