Archive building

When it was founded in 1989, the saai 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 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.