Fassaden aus historischen Handstrichziegeln mit Rezeptschlämme / Galerie Hinter dem Gießhaus 1 in Berlin - Grundlagen, Anforderungen und Lösungen

Façades made of historical handmade bricks with elutriation — Gallery building behind the Giesshaus 1 in Berlin, basics, requirements and solutions.

The façade of the gallery building behind the Giesshaus in Berlin — vis a vis the Berlin museum island — with its handicraft features consisting of historical handmade bricks and a scraped and swept elutriation according to recipe, was not only awarded 2nd place in 2008 in the ECOLA European Architecture Prize, but it has also proved a positive fascination for the public.
Two years after completion of this unique example and the continuously high level of interest — in particular from architectural offices — construction Ing. Thomas Bauer — chief construction supervisor of Dressler Bau GmbH — now reports for the first time publicly about the preparation and workmanship of this façade, in particular also about the experience, basics and requirements involved in working with historical bricks, in particular handmade bricks with employment in new building façades.
Experience in the extraction of old stones, extending to the back-construction of unused buildings, testing methods for the determination of the suitability and the field of application in case of new utilisation, questions relating to cleaning and sorting, extending to special features of handmade bricks processed in new wall construction, are represented.
For the specially modified elutriation according to recipe on the gallery behind the Giess haus Berlin, basics, requirements and the mortar concept applied for the elutriated façade are demonstrated, as well as the technology, developed out of innumerable experiments on the unique handicraft signature of the elutriation, is presented for the first time.