The historic, listed building in the center of the mountain town of Schneeberg was converted and renovated into a police station.
To do this, the substance was structurally restored to its original state.
New elements, like furniture and doors, new materials and surfaces were considered as contemporary “ingredients” that add to the historic building complex. Their use was limited to an indispensable minimum though.
All elements comply with current functional and technical standards, but their curved forms are based on the ornamentation and vaults of the existing building. The modest and ascetic design creates a subtle but deliberate contrast to the historical substance, thus showing off each epoch’s qualities.
The result is a contemporary police station within the qualities of the almost 500 years old historical substance.

Building project: Schneeberg police station | Conversion, relocation and expansion
Client: State of Saxony, SIB NL Zwickau
Completion: 2008
Photographer: Bertram Bölkow