k3 Center for Choreography
The K3 hall at Hamburg’s Kampnagel Kulturfabrik was transformed into a Center for Choreography.
As an international production venue and experimental laboratory, Kampnagel is a place where art and artistic production across dance, theatre, performance, music(theatre), theory, and visual arts are created and presented.Originally, the Kampnagel site was used for building harbor cranes. At the end of the 19th century, large-scale machinery was manufactured here—first rice mills, later loading equipment and harbor cranes—until the rise of container technology in the late 1960s led to the decline of Kampnagel’s traditional products. From 1982 onwards, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus used the site as an alternative venue, and the festival „Besetzungsproben“ laid the foundation for its current function as a cultural factory.
The over 600 m², 12-meter-high production hall K3
was redesigned as a contemporary dance space.
A freestanding “house within a house” with approximately 250 m² of usable area was created, housing two dance studios, a seminar room, a kitchen, and changing rooms. Additional ancillary spaces totaling around 230 m² were also added.The existing industrial hall remained largely untouched in its structure, continuing to provide the atmospheric backdrop for the new studio building—a respectful dialogue between industrial heritage and contemporary use.
Project Info
Client: Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH and Tanzplan Hamburg, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg
Work Stages: 1–8
Completion: 2007–2008
Photography: Thies Rätzke
K3 - Zentrum für Choreografie
As an international production venue and experimental laboratory, Kampnagel is a place where art and artistic production across dance, theatre, performance, music(theatre), theory, and visual arts are created and presented.Originally, the Kampnagel site was used for building harbor cranes. At the end of the 19th century, large-scale machinery was manufactured here—first rice mills, later loading equipment and harbor cranes—until the rise of container technology in the late 1960s led to the decline of Kampnagel’s traditional products. From 1982 onwards, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus used the site as an alternative venue, and the festival „Besetzungsproben“ laid the foundation for its current function as a cultural factory.
The over 600 m², 12-meter-high production hall K3
was redesigned as a contemporary dance space.
A freestanding “house within a house” with approximately 250 m² of usable area was created, housing two dance studios, a seminar room, a kitchen, and changing rooms. Additional ancillary spaces totaling around 230 m² were also added.The existing industrial hall remained largely untouched in its structure, continuing to provide the atmospheric backdrop for the new studio building—a respectful dialogue between industrial heritage and contemporary use.
Project Info
Client: Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH and Tanzplan Hamburg, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg
Work Stages: 1–8
Completion: 2007–2008
Photography: Thies Rätzke
K3 - Zentrum für Choreografie