City Hall

In addition to many residential and commercial buildings, Sindelfingen's City Hall was built during a comprehensive city center redevelopment in the 1970s. The City Hall stands on a hill and can be reached via spacious terraces with stairs that lead to a landscaped forecourt with a carillon in front of the entrance. The building itself consists of a flat pavilion building, which houses both representation and consultation rooms, an adjoined extension to the west for the council chamber, and a multi-storey administration building that towers on top. The structure is built as a reinforced concrete skeleton high-rise slab construction and is based on a grid with a module size of two meters. This allows to adapt the structures of the office spaces inside as sound-absorbing lightweight elements inbetween the modules can be flexibly inserted and removed. On the other hand, many of the load-bearing walls are identifiable in the interior by their finish in exposed concrete, and even in prestigious areas such as the entrance hall, concrete columns and the staircases floating in space are staged formwork-roughly. Outside on the façade, the building material is displayed as well. Uniform horizontal window bands generate a visual order. Yet, the surface and shape of the council hall breaks out: two diagonally broken cubes with mainly closed walls are pushed into each other and create a sculptural shape that contrasts with the rectangular conformity of the office wing.