Caritas Nursing home Zoffingen, Konstanz (DE)
New building,
Building in existing structures,
Listed building
Client: Caritasverband Konstanz e.V.
Location: D-78462 Konstanz, Klostergasse
Architecture: ARGE Pflegeheim Zoffingen (Dietrich Untertrifaller and werkgruppe drei)
Construction: 2020 – 2023
Area: 8,170 m²
Programme: 105 inpatient care places, day care places, gardens, cafeteria
Photos: David Matthiessen
Team
Konstantin Lohmann, Danijela Müller-Stojanović, Heiner Walker
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Statics: Fecker Ingenieure, Konstanz
Building physics, energy consulting new building: Gutbrod Bau Physik, Markgröningen
Energy consulting existing building: Wolf Hummel, Konstanz
Electrics, light: Neher Butz, Konstanz
Building services: Greiner-Engineering, Konstanz
Fire protection: geopro GmbH, Stockach
Landscape: Heinrich Landschaftsarchitektur, Winterthur with Ulrich Stief, Konstanz
Interior design: Heike Rahmen, Büro für Design und Innenarchitektur, Konstanz
Kitchen: Ingenieurbüro Bliestle, St.Georgen
Awards
- Beispielhaftes Bauen Baden-Württemberg, Award
Well-cared living for the elderly
Caritas-Altenhilfe (Caritas care for the elderly) has built a new nursing home in the former Cistercian monastery of Zoffingen in Constance. It serves as a replacement for the St. Marienhaus, which could not be adapted to the regulations of the new home building ordinance. Together with werkgruppe drei and Caritas, we developed the new construction and the refurbishment of the existing building in line with the preservation order. The newly designed ensemble represents an important city building block and characterises the view of the old town.
Haus Zoffingen offers 90 inpatient care places in cosy single rooms, 15 short-term care places, 17 day care places, a chapel, a garden for residents and a public cafeteria with a green outdoor area and water oasis under an imposing copper beech tree that is over 700 years old.
Public café in the garden courtyard
The extensions along Klostergasse form a sheltered entrance yard that merges into the landscaped garden courtyard. A café enlivens the garden and serves as a meeting place for all residents of the neighbourhood. The detailed design of the outdoor space offers attractive places to spend time, allowing both secluded retreats and social gatherings.
The project blends harmoniously into the historical context, reinterprets it anew and creates a prominent keystone in the direction of the Rheinsteig. Alleyways typical of the old town are continued as public spaces and semi-public squares are reinterpreted as reminiscences of the monastery garden.
The façade takes up the eaves and ridge lines of the listed old building as well as the horizontal division into plinth, perforated façade and roof and translates them into a contemporary design language.
Inviting communal areas allow for encounters and social interaction. Depending on the location in the building, residents can enjoy views over the Seerhein, the garden or the roofs of the old town.
