Yonder – Architektur und Design . photos: © Brigida González . + baunetz
The building of the Traffic Commission in Mühlhausen was constructed in 1957 and was expanded in 1997. Due to the police structural reform in 2014 Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg supplemented the existing building with an administrative extension and, in this context, constructed a workshop and garage section.
The new two-story office building and the distinctive gabled roofs of the staggered workshop and garage building make the Traffic Commission visible from the street. The office block connects at a right angle to the northern end of the existing building. Since it extends beyond the edge of the existing building, the courtyard of the Traffic Commission receives an urban framing to the north. Together with the newly created workshop and garage building, which stretches along the eastern property boundary with its four staggered segments, the courtyard also gains a spatial edge towards the east. Between the new garage building and the covered parking spaces, a kind of gate situation is created in the south, marking the main access to the site. Both new buildings have an elegant appearance with their clear architectural language and white facades made of vertical wooden cladding. Fine colored joints between the wooden slats add subtle accents.·
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