This office building is planned as the service centre for the LUWOGE house-building company and BASF’s health insurance organisation. It forms an important part of the Brunck quarter, which has been newly designed by BASF.
The central street of this quarter, Brunckstrasse, is characterised by a thick growth of low trees, in which the existing buildings are embedded. The aim of this project was to maintain this specific local character, despite the required linearity of the building.
The office areas will include undisturbed communication and concentration areas, interspersed by gardens with a private character. The various usages are layered in several parallel zones from north to south and designed differently according to their functions. The three-storey office tracts and the green courtyards between form the zone of the main use areas. The two-storey reception area is the centrepiece of the building. It is naturally lit and ventilated through two atriums.
The northern wing screens the traffic in Brunckstraße and because of its orientation contains service rooms (meeting rooms, archives, kitchens, toilets, equipment rooms, stairs, entrances). The southern side of the building is formed by a layer of aligned balconies, which both mark the end of the courtyards and have a residential quality. The office areas are conceived as flexibly usable decks.
The shortness of the modules also permits the formation of a large three-sided room for team-oriented work. The east-west orientation of the rooms permits equal working conditions for all offices with natural ventilation.
Realization:
Specialist planners:
realgrün Landschaftsarchitekten, Munich (Landscape design)
Werner Sobek Ingenieure GmbH, Stuttgart (Structural design)
Schreiber Beratende Infgenieure, Ulm (Building services)
Schiller + Partner, Fassadenberater, Kornwestheim (Facade)
Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, Stuttgart (Energy planning)
Horstmann + Berger, Ing.Büro für Bauphysik, Altensteig (Building physics)
Ingenieurbüro Schwarz, Stuttgart (Electrical Engineering Consulting)
Photography:
Jens Passoth
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2006 Office Application Award, Best Office Concept
2004 Architecture Prize for Exemplary Commercial Buildings, WESTHYP Foundation
2004 Innovation Prize for Architecture and Construction