With an interdisciplinary planning team of architects, engineers, and real-estate economists, and other experts, SSP AG have found new and innovative solutions afor each project in cooperative collaboration. The resulting concepts are characterized by successful identification, high efficiency and good design. In 2013, after a Europe-wide tendering procedure, SSP AG was commissioned with the overall planning of renovation and construction of extensions and new buildings for the Fritz-Henßler-Berufskolleg in Dortmund. Built in 1908 by the municipal building councillor Friedrich Kullrich, the listed building complex of a former arts-and-crafts and craftsmen school in the Dortmund city centre was in great need of renovation. The task was to satisfy a fixed spatial programme taking into account the building fabric worthy of preservation, both in the existing building stock and through extensions and new buildings. The extension by two building blocks in a strict functional design language and with clearly structured façades allows for an exciting and yet harmonious combination of old and new. Through a sensitive »carry on building« of the existing building stock, a successful new interpretation of the existing fabric was created.
Alexandra Apfelbaum has worked as a freelance
art and architecture historian since 2009.
Since 2018, she has held the deputy professorship
for the history and theory of architecture
and the city at the Dortmund University of Applied
Sciences and Arts. In addition to research in architectural
theory and architectural history, her main
focus is on the interfaces between architecture
and art in the 20th century, with a focus on North
Rhine-Westphalia and the postwar period. She is
chairwoman of the board of the Deutscher Werkbund
North Rhine-Westphalia and the Initiative Ruhrmoderne.
Jörg Hempel is a free-lance architectural photographer,
living in Aachen. Since 2007 he teaches architectural photography
at the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, since 2015 in addition
at the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, and since 2019 at
the TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences).