Public buildings

More room for the university

Customer: Staatliches Bauamt München 2
Construction time: March 2010 - February 2011

Project description:
The construction project took place in the north east of München in the university town of Garching, within the campus of the Technical University of München. The new building has a basement and 3 or 4 floors.
The top floor is used as a service floor. The building extends to a length of 92 m and a width 54 m and consists of two longitudinal tracts and frontal cross-wings, which enclose a landscaped courtyard of almost 1,000 square metres.

Special features:
Pre-stressed collar surfacing, anthracite coloured steel, pre-cast concrete, class 3 concrete pursuant to the walls and ceilings code.

 

 

 

Challenging construction projects with an interesting inner life

Customer: State of Bavaria, represented by Staatliches Bauamt 2, München
Construction time: September 2007 - June 2009

Project description:
The underground museum will be set out as an elongated shape, characterised by hall-like rooms. The walls, ceiling and display cases were executed with class 2 black concrete as a waterproof construction.
The entrance to the museum overlooks the 20-metre high portal with ochre-coloured concrete and a coloured additional part as well as visible residual bulk materials and a cleft finish.

The university is divided into two areas - the almost windowless lower area with ochre-coloured (cleft) exposed concrete and the vitreous body above it. The vitreous body is borne by two 150 x 10 m reinforced concrete composite girders, which span the foyer, cinemas and studios.
- Dimensions 150 m x 40 m
- 2 lower floors and 5 upper floors
- 35,000 cubic metres of concrete
- 110,000 square metres of formwork
- 4,900 tonnes of reinforcing steel

 

 

 

A new forum for science, industry and the public

Customer: Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg
Construction time: October 2009 - April 2010

Project description:
The Baden-Württemberg space centre has created a forum for science, industry and the public, in which it is intended to promote the transfer of technology between all parties.
The project was divided into a 3-storey institute building and a supply passage, which forms the connection to an existing university building.

BGF: 3,250 square metres
BRI: 12,650 cubic metres

Special features:
The architecture of the building project fits in with the existing topography and road layout. This led to the construction of a building with exceptional geometry. The contours are curved into the floor plan.
The concrete work is in class SB 3 concrete Heating and cooling is provided via geothermal boreholes. Concrete core activation.

 

 

 

A new home for the firefighters

Customer: Stadt Esslingen
Construction time: June 2006 - April 2007

Project description:
The building has 4,200 square metres of floor space. The basement contains an underground car park with 30 parking spaces and the small vehicle hall. The main entrance to the fire station is on the ground floor with the large vehicle hall with 12 spaces and the vehicle workshop, and is located in Pulverwiesen. The mezzanine floor accommodates exercise rooms, electrical and radio workshops, storage areas, plant rooms and the youth fire brigade area. The 1st floor mainly accommodates training and multi-purpose rooms for the professional staff. The 2nd floor contains the fire department and German Red Cross joint control centre.

At the eastern end of the 80 m long and 30 m wide, five-storey flat roofed structure, a 26 meter high hose drying and training tower was constructed in facing concrete.

 

 

 

Inspiring architecture for students

Customer: Hessisches Baumanagement, Regionalniederlassung Mitte, Frankfurt am Main

Law and economics
Construction year: 2006 - 2008
Gross cubic volume: 133,000 cubic metres/gross floor area: 30,000 square metres/floor space of 7,000 square metres

The building comprises a basement with a library and reading rooms, as well as a ground and four upper floors. The ground floor also includes parts of the library and the cafe. The upper floors are conference rooms and academic offices. About 2,000 facade columns were built with locally produced parts. This permitted higher quality and faster completion to be achieved.

Auditorium centre
Construction year: 2006 - 2008
BGF: 12,000 square metres/floor space of 3,400 square metres

The building consists of several lecture halls of 160 to 1,200 places and a cafe. In the main 1,200-seat auditorium, the unsupported ceiling spans a length of 36 m. To allow for this span, steel trusses were designed with a height of nine metres and a length of 36 metres. Three floor levels were cast in here. One of these was used for the unsupported construction and the other two are therefore located above the ceiling area to accommodate the building services, since no basement was planned.

Social and Educational Sciences
Construction year: 2009 - 2011
Gross cubic volume: 290,000 cubic metres/BGF: 71,800 square metres

The building consists of two above-ground building parts, which are connected by a joint, two-storey, underground building part. The two basement floors have an L-shaped layout. The maximum length is 153 m, while the maximum width is 117 m. The outer edges enclose an area of 14,000 square metres.

The building is located on waterproof floor slabs with a thickness of 1.20 m, and up to 1.60 m in some areas. The outside wall construction consists of pre-cast columns produced on-site. In the ceilings of the 2nd basement level to the ground floor a 260 t spring column grid was used for load balancing and load distribution on the base. A local tower from the Middle Ages discovered at the site as integrated into the library. In the foyer area of the GE building, 800 square metres of walls were created in white concrete. These surfaces are largely hammered, but are serrated and ground in places.

 

 

 

A new space for new ideas

Customer: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München
Construction time: July 2006 - April 2007

New office and administration building with 4 floors as well as storage and building services rooms on the 1st and 2nd basement levels.
The building was built as a reinforced concrete frame construction and consists of flat slabs, columns, walls, reinforcing cores and load-bearing parapets.

- Building volumes: 6,000 cubic metres
- Floor plan area: 15,000 square metres
- Steel: 1,200 t
- Concrete: 10,000 cubic metres

 

 

 

Science in new premises

Customer: Hessisches Baumanagement, Regionalniederlassung Mitte, Frankfurt am Main
Construction year: 2008 - 2009
Gross cubic volume: 105,000 cubic metres/BGF: 25,785 square metres

The building complex is divided into four 7-storey wings (1st basement level to 3rd floor as full floors, 2nd basement level and building services level as partial floors). The eastern gable end of the wings are connected by a tunnel and a 5-storey animal house to the south eastern side. The walls and ceilings of the tunnel have been executed in a red SB4 facing concrete.

The horizontal dimensions of the entire construction are 139.40 x 65.40 m. The overall height is 23.75 m from the floor slabs to the ceiling above the 3rd floor. The roof of the A wing is cantilevered by up to 10 m on the north side of the complex. The projection was execute above a support in the ceiling above the 3rd floor of he wing and a wall-like support. To reduce deformation, the cantilevered ceiling part is partially pre-stressed.