You probably ask yourself: What is going on with that building right to ours? Why has it been vacant for such a long time? I went to the university's central admistration and interviewed Mr Ridinger, the head of "Dezernat 8", to find out more about it.
INF 130 was built during the 1960s and has been used as a dorm for nurses, clinic personell, but temporarily also acted as a regular dorm for students.
In 2005, it became clear that it does not comply with modern fire safety regulations and even hygiene regulations and the decision was made to clear it and leave it vacant (asbestos wasn't the problem). And actually, it is simply not a nice building to live in: For example, the ceiling height is a little above 2 m. Plans to renovate it were abandoned after it became clear that it is economically not viable, since the building was built like a bunker: Almost everything is concrete (Seriously, what happened to architecture in the 60s?).
All that led to new plans for demolishing and constructing a new building.
A European-wide competition was initiated and the following design won:
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| Right is North, left is facing the Neckar |
Mr Ridinger emphasized that it was taken special care to keep the noise level down during the demolishing and construction - for the sake of the inhabitants of the dorms, the patients of the nearby clinics and sensitive experiments in the physics institutes on the campus.
I hope you found this interesting and I would also like to thank Mr Ridinger for providing me all the information above.
Greetings to everyone living in INF 129 ! I’ve enjoyed reading about INF 130. It was not a nice building to live in, but it was a cheap building to live in, which was not that bad though. By the time it was closed, price was much lower than anywhere else in the campus area (about 85 euro/month for smaller rooms, 120 euro/month for larger rooms). Of course, being an old building, the expenses for the Universitätsklinikum must have been very high. The elevator was not working anymore, sanitary drains often got broken. But the furniture in the rooms and kitchens, looking good enough, was completely destroyed and thrown away after the last residents moved and the building was left vacant - that was a pity. The building might not have been so nice to live in - but not because the ceiling was low, nor because of the concrete from the 60s. The building as a whole looked ugly because it was dark and full of graffiti on the corridors (some of them rather scary, others could even have been considered kind of art). The building had been used before, for several years, as dorms for the so called "Zivi" which on their "farewell parties" used to set off the fire alarm and to destroy the things they had used during their stay in INF 130 by throwing their belongings (bikes, TV sets) from the top floor. The last inhabitants of INF 130 (most of them guest scientists from China and Eastern Europe) were moved into INF 132 at the end of 2003, and during 2004 were witnesses to the raising of INF 129 in a place previously covered by trees.
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