Salvatorgarage

The Salvatorgarage stands at Salvatorplatz in Munich as a protected architectural landmark beside medieval city-wall remnants. Salvator Church faces the garage across the square. Franz Hart designs the original multi-storey car park, completed between 1964 and 1965 with a brick facade. The brick facade echoes Munich’s nearby medieval wall. In 2006, Peter Haimerl modernizes the structure by adding two and a half levels beneath a steel facade. The new steel facade forms a mesh around those levels. Computer algorithms shape its pattern to imitate natural growth, linking digital fabrication with the site’s historic surroundings. Plasma-cut, hot-dip galvanized steel plates make up the outer structure. Haimerl’s intervention receives recognition from the Renault Traffic Design Award and the German Galvanizers Prize. The plates give the facade its visible texture. This intervention places twentieth-century parking architecture within Munich’s historic urban fabric beside the Salvatorkirche at Salvatorplatz. Brick and steel frame the Salvatorgarage’s architectural identity.