Lecture hall TU Bergakademie

The new lecture hall building for the Freiberg Mining Academy in the Schloßplatz quarter was intended to create the technical and spatial conditions for holding international symposia and conferences. In addition to the special features of the construction site that had to be taken into account, whereby the position of the foundation components had to be adapted due to the preservation of the foundation walls of a Dominican monastery from the Middle Ages, there were further challenges for the building structure.

The lecture hall with 270 seats, which is located above the column-free entrance foyer, is supported on just 4 load-bearing components. The sloping roof surfaces, which act like a hat, form a spatial structure that absorbs all loads and eccentricities and transfers them to the small number of vertical load-bearing members. A prestressed, 35 cm thick flat ceiling with a span of 12.8 m ensures maximum utilization of the clear room height in the foyer area. The building is also visually impressive thanks to the integration of archaeological foundation walls and an enveloping natural stone façade.