German Exhibition
1. Nov — 4. Dez 2011
1. Nov — 4. Dez 2011
IX. Internationale São Paulo Architecture Biennal
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Seminarbuilding, Cologne University
Cologne, Germany
Architekturbüro Paul Böhm, Cologne
Vitality and Concentrated Contemplation Ranging from the large, stone square between main building, Philosophikum (humanities building) and auditorium to the small courtyard formed by the new seminar building, the campus provides spaces of vitality and contemplation. The four clearly structured parts of the new building with their deeply inset jambs convey a sense of concentrated contemplation already in their exterior appearance. The materials dominating the interior design, light-colored stone and warm wood, confirm this first impression. The first and second floor feature six seminar rooms each, with reading and waiting areas in between providing space for communication as well as PC work stations. The cafeteria, standing convention area, the sanitation rooms and the student representation offices all are located in the supporting base, opening up to life on the campus through large, transparent fronts.
Photo: Christopher Schöer-Heiermann
Student Housing Area in the Olympic Village
Munich, Germany
arge bogevischs buero hofmann ritzer architekten & stadtplaner partnerschaft, Munich with Prof. Werner Wirsing, Munich
Young, Individual Student Accomodation The landmarked student housing facilities of the former 1972 Olympic village were in need of renovation. Preservation of the buildings true to their original state was economically not feasible, however. The decision was made to modernize the structure following the guidelines of critical cultural heritage management. With the exception of 12 units, the housing stock was demolished and substituted by new buildings with an almost identical cubic shape, thus maintaining the village-like appearance in spite of compressing the features.
Clearly contoured, two-story duplex bungalows built with exposed fair-faced concrete now provide each student with their own kitchen, own bathroom and a small roof-top terrace. The inhabitants are free to individually design the bare fair-faced concrete facades of the buildings, as was the idea already during the initial planning stage.
Photo: Jens Masmann
Pumping Station
Cologne, Germany
ASTOC Architects and Planners, Cologne
Flood Control with Didactic Claim This flood control facility demonstrates the achievement of integrating the complex technical processes within one building. The by far greater part of the construction dimensions is located underground. However, the architecture helps to render visible in the cityscape an otherwise invisible process hidden beneath the ground, thus raising awareness for how precious the availability of clean, fresh water is, a commodity usually taken so much for granted.
The reference to nature is made evident by the facade alone, which slowly is being transformed into a soft, mossy wall. The irrigation required for this purpose is effected with the purified rain water. The long side of the building features a curved facade with cladding made of basalt, whereas all other visible parts of the building are shrouded in a "white cloud" of wide-meshed expanded metal
Photo: Lachenmaier
Reception Building, Green House and Research Center Chenshan Botanical Garden
Shanghai, China
Auer+Weber+Assoziierte , Munich with Straub +Thurmayr Landschaftsarchitekten and Valentin + Valentin Landschaftsarchitekten with Wessling Xian Dai Architectural Design Group, Shanghai
In Dialogue with Surrounding Nature A modern science location was created within an extensive garden featuring a rich variety of plants. The architectural building elements are embedded in a garden band or ring and create locations with an independent character within this landscape. The area totaling 202 hectare features the reception buildings, the greenhouses and the research center entering into an aesthetic dialogue with nature. With their dynamic shapes and the different materials alternating between concrete supporting the landscape level and glass as a transparent filling, these structures are integrated into the landscape architecture in a natural manner. The infrastructure and service facilities are placed decentralized in the area of the inner gardens. An open-air stage is set against the backdrop of a former quarry.
Photo: Foto: Jan Siefkel
Rolex Learning Center
Lausanne, Switzerland
B+G Ingenieure Bollinger + Grohmann GmbH, Frankfurt with SANAA, Tokyo and Walther Mory Maier Bauingenieure, Basel
Symbiosis of Innovation and Learning Instead of using the common structuring elements of ceilings and walls, the new campus communication center, including a library, information and student services desks, an auditorium as well as a cafeteria and restaurant, creates an architectural landscape that is shaped by two differently sized domes. These domes do not constitute the roof but provide the floor for the interior behind its glazed facade.
A steel roof with a 9 × 9 meter grid of supporting columns spreads across the entire building and matches the geometry of the domes. Patios provide plenty of daylight and fresh air. The structural concept was specifically developed to accommodate the sophisticated architectural design and the building’s functional and static requirements. The extremely shallow curve of the domes presented the greatest challenge to the construction engineers.
Photo: Iwan Baan
Company Restaurant with Auditorium
Ditzingen, Germany
Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Berlin, with Werner Sobek, Stuttgart
Finer Dining The building’s powerful volume develops from out of the landscape: Its base sinks into the ground to a depth of up to nine meters, so that the entire range of functional and facility rooms required for a canteen kitchen remains hidden. Above the dining room floats the wide-span steel and wood composite construction of the roof. The fact that this shelters a generous room almost without supports, is owed to the innovative static. Emulating the anatomy of a leaf as regards its structure, the roof expanse is formed by altogether nine triangles resting on formations of three pillars each, which in turn are made of white, welded, hollow box girders. The multidimensional honeycomb wood creates a pleasant atmosphere with its warm look and the changeable play of light caused by the plasticity of the individual honeycomb sections.
Photo: David Franck
Headquarter, Gallery and Studios Brunnenstrasse 9
Berlin, Germany
Brandlhuber+ ERA, Emde, Schneider, Berlin
Glowing Studio Apartment Closing a Gap Built on the foundations of a never completed building project, an unusual new building was created, integrating working areas, exhibition space and residential quarters. The probably most striking characteristic is the almost entirely closed wall cladding on the facade consisting of translucent polycarbonate panels – a building material usually used for greenhouses or conservatories. The individual stories of the structure deliberately were kept open and neutral for any kind of utilization. The floors, walls and ceilings are made of bare concrete. The oak planks along the street-facing front have a dual function: They serve as built-in furniture while at the same time providing the statically necessary substructure for the polycarbonate panels. The rearward side of the house is almost completely glazed and can be opened towards the inner courtyard by way of room-high sliding doors.
Photo: Brandlhuber
Oskar von Miller Tower
Munich, Germany
Deubzer König + Rimmel Architekten, Munich
Fair Weather View The 50 meter high, new meteorological measuring tower features an oval ground plan aligned in east-west direction. It is constructed out of glass rings horizontally piled up one on the other. The tower’s entire volume tapers in a powerful skywards movement. On the individual measurement levels in 5, 10, 20 and 35 meters height, rods protrude like feelers in all directions. The top-most measurement level is designed vertically as a separate measuring point. The supporting structure consists of a tiered reinforced concrete core, and the facade is attached to a steel construction, which in turn is fastened to the vertical concrete elements: Architecture borrowed the principle of the hooped skirt for this design. For the first time, hot bent, translucent acrylic glass of up to 6.5 meters in length was used for the outer skin of the facade.
Photo: Henning Köpke
Extension Building Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library)
Leipzig, Germany
Gabriele Glöckler, Stuttgart with ZSP Architekten, Stuttgart
Book Architecture The winning design for the fourth extension building of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) in Leipzig, selected in the course of a Europe-wide competition, connects the historical main building dating from 1916 and the "Bücherturm" (book tower), built in the time of the GDR, by a dynamically shaped new building. With its streamlined contours, the expressive building seems to flow around the spaces between the differentiated ensembles of urban development at the Deutscher Platz square, while never taking over the main stage or triumphing over the old substance with the grand gesture of the new arrival. Whereas the flowing corpus rises towards the entrance on the square in a representational manner, it declines again towards the Straße des 18. Oktober and changes character to a peripheral development.
The architecture's conceptual basis references the location's spirit: As a book, the house likewise is designed according to the principle of "dust-jacket - cover - content". The public spaces inside the building are shared by the Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum (German Museum of Books and Letters) and the Deutsches Musikarchiv (German Music Archive). A freely accessible passage leads to the exhibition and function rooms as well as to the reading rooms.
The climatization concept is based on an energetically optimized building shell and the utilization of geothermal energy for the entire climatization of the building.
Photo: Gabriele Glöckler
Corporate Headquarters of the Süddeutscher Verlag Publishing House
Munich, Germany
GKK+Architekten GmbH / Prof. Swantje Kühn, Oliver Kühn, Berlin
Gold for Office Building The competition requirements were clear: The new head office for the publisher of a large, national daily newspaper was supposed to also reflect the economic and cultural profile of the building owner and to add a new mark to Munich's city skyline. Like a cut crystal, the new building based on the winning design now constitutes an important entrance to the city center. What at first sight appears to be a single piece monolith, is in fact a well-proportioned, crystalline structure with precisely executed, glittering edges: The 100 meter high and 25 meter wide main building is connected to an angulate wing. Together with the entrance hall leading deep into the interior of the building, this wing creates a semi-closed square in front of the whole structure. Whereas the ground floor and first level with staff canteen, conference and lounge area, an exhibition space and a kindergarten are open to the public, the stories above remain reserved for the offices and working environment of the publishing house's 2,000 employees. The two uppermost stories are taken up by a grand hall for representative events and receptions. From here, a panoramic view across the city and surrounding landscape can be enjoyed. Owing to an intelligent energy concept, the building operations require up to 80 per cent less in primary energy supply compared to conventional office buildings. For this environmentally friendly achievement, the project was the first office building in Germany to be awarded the LEED Gold Certificate.
Photo: Claus Graubner
Cape Town Stadion
Cape Town, South Africa
gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Berlin with Louis Karol architects, Cape Town and Schlaich Bergemann and Partner – sbp GmbH, Stuttgart
Modern Temple for Soccer Gods The overall image of Cape Town is characterized by the combination of Table Mountain, a gently undulating landscape and the Atlantic Ocean framing the entire area. As a solitary structure, the stadium respectfully fits in with this topography without entering into competition with it. Due to its sweeping silhouette, it appears more like a sculpture than a building. The roof, a newly developed combination of suspension roof and radial truss system, was integrated into the design forming a fifth facade and allows plenty of natural light to illuminate the playing field. Areas subject to more intensive levels of heat impact were outfitted with protective enamel glazing. The translucent outer shell made of light-colored woven fiberglass reflects the changing weather conditions and varying intensity of daylight to create a visually appealing effect. At the same time, it also fulfills physical functions required in a building: This open-pored, prestressed membrane facade provides natural air ventilation in the surrounding galleries. The three tiers that make up the Cape Town Stadium provide space for approximately 68,000 spectators. As a world-class venue, it also creates an impulse for the further development of the city.
Photo: GMP Architekten
European Investment Bank
Luxembourg
ingenhoven architects, Düsseldorf
Best Grades for Energy ConceptThe European Investment Bank with its headquarters on the Kirchberg plateau in Luxembourg had a new annex building constructed, covering an area of 7,000 square meters and providing space for 800 or more employees. The main building, a steel and concrete construction designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1980, now has received a new, overarching, light-weight glass shell. The V-shaped office wings are connected with each other via atriums and conservatories. The newly interpreted terracing creates an interrelation between the old and the new building without putting into question the autonomy of each respective piece of architecture. The design paid great respect to the differentiated landscape profile of the immediate environment. The building fits into the landscape with an air of restraint and transforms its composition towards characteristic architectural quality. The halls, restaurants and conference rooms are organized across landscape terraces.
The new, flexible office floors provide modern workstations and feature open, communicative zones for interaction and movement at the interfaces of the units. The units themselves can be freely combined. The atriums not only contribute towards a pleasant atmosphere but also are an essential part of the energy concept. The first building on the European continent to receive such an honor, the bank was awarded an "Excellent" rating by the British environmental rating system BREEAM.
Photo: H.G. Esch
AachenMünchener Head Office Building
Aachen, Germany
kadawittfeldarchitektur, Aachen
More Public Space for All Company headquarters located on large, central city plots frequently are unattractive sites bare of life outside office hours. Therefore, the design of an insurance company's head office building was linked with the urban development aim of creating an attractive public space. In addition to a series of public squares, this included also a direct foot path connection between the main train station and the city center, whereas the building's function as a site for offices was augmented by numerous urban facilities attracting the public and contributing to livening up the location. The internal organization of the building likewise follows the principles of the greatest possible public accessibility and communication.
The extension building takes up two blocks of the Wilhelminian style urban structure. With its semi-public, green inner courtyards it embodies a reinterpretation of the perimeter development so typical for the area. The generous outside flight of stairs and the ensuing space pay respect to the urban development context of compact density loosened up by squares. Inside, the existing old structure and the new buildings are connected by a boulevard. This boulevard constitutes a communicative, transparent zone housing conference rooms, the staff canteen, a cafeteria, other meeting rooms and areas for communication. In analogy to the public space towards the street, this interior space opens up to contain small open areas with differentiated qualities and each featuring its own, distinctive atmosphere. The boulevard seems to float through the variety of garden designs contained within the block, before it opens up to the city in a representational manner at the main entrance and in the area of the new Pocket Park.
Photo: Jens Kirchner
Elbe Bridge
Mühlberg, Germany
LAP Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner, Beratende Ingenieure VBI GmbH, Stuttgart, with VIC Verkehrs- und Ingenieurbau Consult GmbH, Potsdam
Looking Innovation in the EyeThis new bridge, which by now is known as the so-called "Mühlberg Eye", crosses the River Elbe between the cities of Riesa and Torgau in Saxony, Germany. It is a successful example for the combination of innovation in construction design and of architectural restraint. The 700 meter long structure was planned as a twelve-span deck bridge. The part across the water body is characterized by a classical steel composite in the cross section. This is joined to a prestressed concrete section in the eastern approach. A cross section broken down into tie and frame struts in the river pier section was chosen in order to absorb the great bearing load and at the same time characterizes the bridge's appearance with its expressive shape.
Since the Elbe alluvial plains constitute an ecosystem encompassing several protected areas, the interference with the landscape during building had to be kept at a minimum to the greatest degree possible, a consideration already influencing the planning stage. This prerequisite was met by construction design achieving very wide spans, which in addition allowed for particularly economic building: For instance, prestressed concrete was used in the river pier section and the method of external preloading was applied. The combination of these two methods had been tested in numerous trials and was implemented in an aesthetically sophisticated manner.
Photo: Rico Stockmann
Culture Wave City
Hangzhou, China
Obermeyer Planen und Beraten, Munich with ECADI, Shanghai
Culture and Commerce for the Metropolis With Culture Wave City, Hangzhou, a large city of several million inhabitants in south-east China, received its own quarter purely dedicated to leisure and relaxation. It is part of a greater urban development project spanning an expanse of 18.6 square kilometers along the Qian Tang River, which still required its own site for tourism, commerce, gastronomy and culture. Culture Wave City unites all these purposes and constitutes the link between the metropolis and the surrounding landscape with its dramatic beauty. The design focused on the close connection between the river and the city. The Qian Tang River is bridged by the City Balcony: A sequence of slanted levels and interconnected, one-story room structures housing exhibition areas and look-out platforms on a total of 19,000 square meters and constituting the conclusion to Culture Wave City. Between the open spaces, the river landscape and the interior spaces, atriums create enchanting connections. Depending on their location, the visitors can enjoy a panoramic view either across the landscape or the cityscape. Once a year, a special natural spectacle can be observed from the panoramic terrace of the City Balcony: This is when a flood wave coming from the ocean and rising up to eight meters makes its way upriver in a gust of foam.
Photo: Obermeyer
The IBA DOCK
Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Han Slawik Architekt, Hannover
Floating Energy Bundle The IBA DOCK is located in the Müggenburg custom harbor in Hamburg and at present constitutes the largest floating building in the whole of Germany. Developed in the context of the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA - International Building Exhibition), the dock is anchored to poles or, technically speaking, dolphins and daily moves up and down 3.5 meters with the tide. Even in the event of an extreme storm tide, the construction adapts to the water level without any difficulty.
The entrance on the uppermost deck is accessed via a bridge connected to the shore and leads to an exhibition room spanning three levels. At present, a large model of the Hamburg Elbe Island is on display there. Furthermore, the dock features a lecture area, a cafeteria and an outdoors terrace. The eastern part of the building is taken up by offices. The IBA DOCK utilizes the sun and the water from the River Elbe to generate energy. A heat pump, that runs on power from a photovoltaics facility on the roof, provides the energy required for heating. The building is constructed on a concrete pontoon, which at the same time serves as a mooring pier and guarantees that the dock can drop anchor practically everywhere. The three-story superstructure was executed in modular lightweight construction using steel frames. These containers can be flexibly augmented or dismantled depending on the requirements and utilization.
Photo: Rüdiger Mosler
Pedestrian Bridge
Sassnitz, Rügen, Germany
schlaich bergermann und partner - sbp gmbh, Stuttgart
Filigree Passageway to the City Harbour The new pedestrian bridge in Sassnitz connects the town with the town harbor, which lies 25 meter below the level of the town center. In designing the structure, the main challenge was bridging the 20 meter high chalk embankment in such a manner so as to create a harmonious path taking into consideration the existing landmarked buildings and the prominent location of the site. At a total length of 243 meters, 119 meters of the bridge are constructed as a circular ring girder with one-sided suspension. The special feature of the structure is the eccentric anchoring of the hanger cables to vertical cantilevers that run along the side of the footpath. This manner of construction prevents torsional moment in the superstructure in spite of the one-sided suspension. The suspension bridge is back-stressed and anchored via a 40 meter high mast. The remaining 124 meter of the footpath are executed as an elevated composite structure ramped bridge with individual spans of about 12 meters each. The connecting stairs at the transition point between the suspension bridge and the ramped bridge, by which the pedestrians comfortably descend down to the harbor, serve to absorb the forces resulting from the suspension bridge into the building ground. The lines of light emitting diodes set into the stainless steel hand rails provide consistent illumination for the decking and invest the bridge with an elegant, delicate appearance especially at night.
Photo: Wilfried Dechau
Bridge across the River Ijssel
HaTTEM, The Netherlands
SSF Ingenieure AG, Munich with Quist Wintermans
Architekten, Rotterdam
Environmentally Friendly Construction of Red Elegance Architekten, Rotterdam
The new bridge across the River Ijssel is part of the 50 kilometer long, newly built Hanzelijn traffic route in the Netherlands and connects the province's capital Zwolle with the municipality of Hattem. The 900 meter long and 15 meter wide structure was completed in the fall of 2010.
With its restrained design, the bridge blends with the flat, wide Ijssel landscape in an unspectacular manner: The slender, straight river crossing on its muscular supporting structure does not betray the fact that more than 9,300 tons of steel went into its construction. Yet in spite of all unassumingness, it does lay claim to some degree of architectural presence with its bright red color. As a construction for traffic purposes, the new bridge has to meet complex demands. With its height of more than 9 meters it not only allows water-bound vessels to travel along the river unhindered; in addition to the railway tracks and a traffic lane it also accommodates a parallel bicycle and pedestrian path.
In order not to put restraints on the flow profile of the River Ijssel, the foreland bridges were set up on single pillars. Owing to this environmentally friendly manner of construction, the ecological balance of the river landscape remains undisturbed.
Photo: Firmengruppe Max Bögl / Photo – Josine Voogt
Albertinum Dresden, redevelopment and new building
Dresden, Germany
staab architekten, Berlin
Modern Solution for an Old Building The historical building of the Albertinum in Dresden was given a modern quality in the course of its renovation and with the new building of the depository.
The inner courtyard, previously used as a parking space, became the atmospheric center of the building: By way of a new, two story roof structure, it was recreated as a spatially clearly defined forum constituting the communicative interface between art and social interaction. All public infrastructural facilities were brought together here.
The new, two story roof structure houses the storage rooms and the workshops of the painting restoration department. Since the new building structure is removed from the historical building on the long sides of the courtyard rectangle, the rooms are lit by daylight from the sides. The underside of the construction features an illuminated expanse floating above the atrium like a canopy of light.
Photo: Werner Huthmacher
Nature Observation Tower Mur
Gosdorf, AustriA
terrain: loenhart &mayr BDA Architekten And Landschaftsarchitekten,
Munich, with osd – office for structural design Ingenieure, Frankfurt
Climbing up the Forest Levels Munich, with osd – office for structural design Ingenieure, Frankfurt
This distinctive observation tower is based on the structural principle of the double helix. The double spiral flight of stairs with 168 steps leading up to the top of the tower and back down again offers a view of the landscape, while at the same time allowing for the observation of flora and fauna at close range. The forest can be experienced as an ecosystem featuring differentiated life forms at every level. Because this is about gradual awareness, the look-out platform in 27 meters height was kept deliberately small.
With its angular geometry, the building gives the impression of an alien structure made of cold, shiny metal suddenly appearing in the green profusion. On the one hand, the double helix points towards DNA as the basis of all life. On the other, it constitutes a reference to nearby Graz Castle, whose double spiral staircase dates back to 1499.
Photo: Marc Lins
