Für Nietzsche konstruiert - ein Dach- und Fassadentragwerk ausgeschnitten aus Brettsperrholz

Designed for Nietzsche — A Roof- and Facade-Structure Cut Out from Cross-Laminated Timber-Plates.

The structure of the roof and the facade of the Nietzsche-Documentation-Centre in Naumburg/Saale, a small town in the heart of Germany where the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche spent a major part of his life, is an unconventional application of cross-laminated-timber-plates. It consists of frame elements cut out from the wooden plate-material similar to puzzle-parts sawed out from plywood with a jigsaw. All parts were produced that way and put together with a roofing plate also made from cross-laminated-timber, which works as an elastic longitudinal hinge-element. The structure is a rather unconventional one and refers to the critical and non conformal ideas of the well-known philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.