saai summer break

In order to be able to answer your inquiries in the future as usual, we will devote ourselves to our internal archive inventory during the summer. The archive is closed from August 1st to October 09th. We are looking forward to answering your inquiries again as of 12th of October 2026. Please send your current enquiries again in October.

We wish you a nice summer!

Best regards

Your saai team

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Address and Directions

Address

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

Arriving by train

The tram station Durlacher Tor is about a 5-minute walk away.

The Site

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.