Penthouse on the roof of the bunker gave second wind to the war memorial

Amusing turns sometimes occur in the fate of old buildings. You live your lives, all of a sudden rail zaborchikom, hang a poster "reconstruction", and a year later - the shining mirror windows office. Familiar? But we reverse example. And it does not alter the palace, and something is not a masterpiece of architecture, but quite impersonal bunker during the Second World War.




A strange desire - to buy the old ground bombshelter (Luftschutz-Hochbunker) and turn it into a cozy cottage. But this is how one family came from the city of Hamm (Hamm), in North Rhine-Westphalia. Architecture of the bunkers - is easier nowhere: a concrete cube with walls with no windows and no decoration. Against the backdrop of neighborhood neat houses with red tile roofs - just "a guest from the dark past."
But the new owners liked the thoroughness and bombshelter immovability construction times Reich, and they ordered us Archivolver Bonn architectural alterations. But with a condition: the "building - the historic document" need to treat with reverence.



Chapter Archivolver Michael Amort (Michael Amort) comply with mandate of customers: the building bomb shelters remained unchanged. But on top of buildings appeared monstruoznogo penthouse - Penthouse auf dem Hochbunker.

The basis of design is based on the frame of steel profiles. It has already hang blocks walls, collected from a wooden beam (plus layers of insulation and decorative panel). And part of the premises "flat" met hovering over the walls of the bunker. The impression that "house" on top was flying by and just sat down to rest.

But the more the illusion of independence from his penthouse solid foundation stepped deliberately left an air gap: novodel "if raised above the roof of the shelter. A little bit, but it is enough to provide better ventilation of buildings, put the gap in the cables and pipes, and most importantly - to cause a feeling of flight penthouse over a concrete cube.

At night, this effect is enhanced illumination gap, which creates a light strip, cut a building with "historic" and "advanced" part.