In an informative text, the architect of our new building, Mr. Lothar Willius, takes us into his world of thoughts before, during and also after the construction. He tells us what inspired him.
"(...) it was the force of the old city, it was the density of the streets, the houses. The churches of the old Mainz, which directly abut this building, which virtually oppress it. It was the beauty of this old Mainz`, the narrowness, the angularity, the up and down of the eaves and roofs that beset me."
What he pursued as a goal
"Not the mechanical flow of the routes, not the fastest and straightest connection between dining room and conference room and bed floor is the purpose and goal of these floor plans. Certainly, the connections must function, but not as in a company that is oriented towards rational work. Walking in this house must always be able to be an experience of walking, of building. (...) we have to go through the consciousness, so that we come again to an unconscious acting in the things we want to reach".
And how he incorporated the historic building with the Gothic Lady Chapel into his planning.
"Like a precious stone in a setting it stands (...) between the simple gable roofs, the eaves cornices and sober rows of windows of the courtyard houses (...). There, this building, that is historical substance (...).
