HHS Planer + Architekten
Concepts with a holistic approach
For more than 20 years, architectural associates Hegger, Hegger und Schleiff have demonstrated their expertise in finding and implementing superb solutions for architecture in public spaces. They have been awarded numerous prizes and have impressed with their consistent approach.
They are still based in Kassel, where they started out in 1980. When Manfred Hegger, Doris Hegger-Luhnen and Günther Schleiff joined forces, their common direction was clear from the outset: Analysis, design formulation and planning, the keys to successful building work; architecture that respects its environment; solutions which grow in order to meet requirements .
HHS's activities are thus diverse and diversified. Their work profile ranges from building design, urban development planning, basic planning and programming to research and development.
The HHS portfolio includes housing and commercial projects, office buildings and production sites, schools and other institutions of learning, hotels and conference buildings, shopping centres, libraries, laboratory buildings, power plants, theatres and concert halls, bridges, trade fair buildings, furniture, illumination and projects in urban space. Their largest ongoing project is a research centre which includes a laboratory and auditorium wing; the smallest project is an organ front.
Their work is not limited to the design of urban space, buildings or whatever facilities. Activities also include the programming of new and existing buildings, structural concepts for specific uses as well as institutions, the management of planning processes, competitions as well as their own research projects.
Cooperation Network
The main office in Kassel moved into its own building in 1996. The building itself represents a research project focusing on energy-saving and solar-powered construction; it was even subsidised by the German Ministry of Education and Science.
The office features a modern network of 30 high-capacity computer workplaces for 2D and 3D project management as well as visualisation and data rendering.
Cooperation with colleagues, with landscape architects and engineers at home and abroad is daily routine. In many cases the cooperation has existed for many years and takes the form of actual partnerships for some of the projects.
Clear benefit to owners and users
HHS bases its philosophy on the following premise: a thoroughly planned and detailed formulation of tasks in close coordination with the project owners. Based on this premise, the successful implementation of a project is further supported by feasibility studies and urban studies. A building assignment begins with the programming phase. Gradually the project takes shape in terms of size, function, structure and solution. The feasibility of a building plan is put to a strict test.
The next step is to set goals in close communication with owners and users. Layout studies form the basis of requirements placed on area and space. Space requirements and qualities are then defined, costs identified or programmes adapted to budgets. All of this helps to make each and every structure economical and sustainable.
HHS have reaped the fruits of their endeavours. In addition to their economic growth and continuity in business, they have been awarded numerous prizes in recognition of their work, both in terms of content and public acceptance.
It was only in 2001 that HHS was awarded the German Fassadenpreis 2001 for their Nikolaisaal project in Potsdam. Their Mont-Cenis Academy project in Herne, Germany, received honourable mention in the International Ligna Award.
Ad personam
Manfred Hegger
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. M. Sc. Econ
Architect BDA
born in 1946
Education
Architecture: University of Stuttgart / Ulm School of Design
1967 - 1973
Systems Engineering:
Technical University of Berlin
1969 - 1970
Planning: University of London/
London School of Economics and Political Science 1975 - 1976
Professional experience
Partner of a Working Group on Benefit Analysis 1976 - 1989
(with Peter Jokusch and Barbara Ettinger-Brinkmann)
Consultant to OECD Paris
1979 - 1982
Partner of HHS Planer + Architekten since 1980 (with Doris Hegger-Luhnen and Günter Schleiff)
Project-related partnership with GrünGürtel Projektbüro Frankfurt am Main (with Prof. Peter Latz and Peter Lieser) 1990 -1991
Spokesman for the Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA (German architects' association) in the Cooperation working group of the Deutsche Städtetag, the Gesamtverband der Wohnungsunternehmen and BDA (since 1994)
Member of the Board of Deutsches Architektur-Zentrum Berlin (since 1997)
Member of the Urban Construction Council of the City of Göttingen (since 1996)
Board member of HHS AG since 2001
Teaching
Teaching assignment at University of Stuttgart 1973 - 1990
Teaching assignment at Kassel Polytechnic (Gesamthochschule Kassel) 1977 - 1979
Teaching assignment at University of Hannover since 1979
Teaching assignment at Center for Infrastructure Planning of the University of Stuttgart since 1984
Honorary professorship at University of Hannover since 1994
Guest professor at Kassel Polytechnic (Gesamthochschule Kassel) 2000
Doris Hegger-Luhnen
Dipl.-Ing. Architect
and Interior Designer BDA
born in 1950
Education
Apprenticeship in architectural draughtsmanship
1965 - 1968
Interior Design: Werkkunstschule Krefeld 1970
Interior Design:
Staatliche Kunstakademie Stuttgart 1970 - 1974
Architecture: Gesamthochschule Kassel 1975 - 1978
Professional Experience
Breidenbach, Viersen
1967 - 1969
Hentrich, Peschnigg and Partners
1969 - 1970
Faller + Schröder, Stuttgart
1970 - 1973
Maguire and Murray, London
1974 - 1975
Benefit Analysis: Task Force
1975 - 1978
Herzog, Kassel/Munich 1978 - 1980
HHS Planer + Architekten Associates since 1980
(together with Manfred Hegger and Günter Schleiff)
Board member HHS AG since 2001
Teaching
Assignment at Fachhochschule Hildesheim/ Holzminden since 1997
Günter Schleiff
Dipl.-Ing. Architect BDA
born in 1954
Education
Social Sciences: University of Göttingen
1973 - 1975
Architecture: Gesamthochschule Kassel 1975 - 1980
Professional experience
Baufrösche (Prof. M. Wilkens) 1980
Working Group on Benefit Analysis
1980 - 1981
Partner of HHS Planer + Architekten since 1980
(together with Manfred Hegger and Doris Hegger-Luhnen)
Board member HHS AG since 2001
