Address

saai | Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Kaiserstraße 8
76131 Karlsruhe

Arriving by car

From Stuttgart (Autobahn A8) take the A5 towards Frankfurt, exit 44 Karlsruhe-Durlach. From Frankfurt or Basel (highway A5) take exit 44 Karlsruhe-Durlach. Drive in the direction of Karlsruhe-Zentrum (B10, Durlacher Allee). After approx. 2km turn right at Durlacher Tor into Adenauerring towards KIT Campus Süd. On the campus turn left behind the university library, parking lots are located at Otto-Ammann-Platz.

Arriving by train

From Karlsruhe main station, take Tram 2/3 or the S4/S7/S8 in the direction of the city center to the Kronenplatz stop (the Durlacher Tor stop is currently being renovated). The saai is about a 3-minute walk away, heading east on Kaiserstraße.

When it was founded in 1989, the saai | Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau found its home in the group of buildings of the former arsenal on the eastern Kaiserstraße in Karlsruhe.
The complex was built between 1777 and 1779 under Margrave Karl Friedrich as a hunting arsenal near the Durlacher Tor on Lange Straße (now Kaiserstraße). It was designed by Wilhelm Jeremias Müller (1725-1801). To the left and right, the archive buildings frame the actual main building of the former arsenal, which has been home to the KIT's Institutes for Transportation, Road and Railway Construction since the post-war period. The design of the building group is reminiscent of a small palace complex with the Corp des Logis in the background and flanking cavalier houses, which are arranged together around a courtyard of honor, which is closed off from Kaiserstraße by a grid with a representative gate.