Lightness in contrast to solidity. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
28/07/2021.
[Oberhausen] Germany
metalocus, MARÍA ONSINA
metalocus, MARÍA ONSINA
The architecture studio Kuehn Malvezzi designed the project of a unique office building in the center of Oberhausen, Germany. The construction is characterized by unifying the administrative use on the first floors together with a glass greenhouse on the roof.
The contrast between the solid brick facade and the delicacy of the light upper garden gives the project its own identity and conditions the urban context around the Altmarkt, an important place in the city.
The contrast between the solid brick facade and the delicacy of the light upper garden gives the project its own identity and conditions the urban context around the Altmarkt, an important place in the city.
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi. Photograph by Hiepler, Brunier
Site plan. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Standard floor plan. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Ground floor plan. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Facade. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Facade. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Facade. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Section. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Sketch. Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse by Kuehn Malvezzi
Kuehn Malvezzi, together with the collaboration of the landscape architects Atelier Le Balto, has developed the building as an effective urban planning element. The patios and paths take visitors from the market square to living spaces surrounded by greenery.
Climbing plants and the vertical garden visually connect the patios with the greenhouse located on the deck. A portion of this has been used as an agricultural research area for the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology.
Climbing plants and the vertical garden visually connect the patios with the greenhouse located on the deck. A portion of this has been used as an agricultural research area for the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology.
Description of project by Kuehn Malvezzi
The office building in the center of Oberhausen combines the diverse functions of a public administrative building and rooftop garden in a new way, integrating features of both typologies. The tension between the physicality of the brick building and the delicate lightness of the greenhouse creates a new identity that affects the urban context of the Altmarkt, an important location in the city.
A vertical garden connects the square with the roof garden. Developed in collaboration with landscape architects Atelier Le Balto, it is an effective urban planning element that purposefully combines the old and new landscape typologies as a public space. A varied course leads visitors from the tree-lined market square up steps and platforms, past climbing plants and seating areas, to the roof. From the rooftop, the view opens up over the historical center of the city.
A part of the rooftop greenhouse, which was planned in cooperation with Haas Architekten, is a research area used by the Oberhausen-based Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology, to realize its concepts in the field of building-integrated agriculture.
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Architects
Design team
Margherita Fanin, Rebekka Bode, Felix Rohde, Konstanze Beelitz, Anna Naumann, Moritz Scheible, Francesco Pizzorusso, Martin Löffler, Karin Fendt, Peter Franz Weber.
Collaborators
Structural Engineer.- Frankenstein Consult. Landscape.- Atelier Le Balto. Consultant Fire Protection Specialist.- Hagen Ingenieurgesellschaft für Brandschutz mbH. Consultant Building Services.- HL-Technik. Consultant Building Physics.- Müller-BBM GmbH. Consultant Building Surveillance Architecture.- HPP. Collaborator Greenhouse Planner.- Haas Architekten, Berlin. Collaborator Control And Information System.- Double Standards.
Area
7,839 sqm.
Dates
2019.
Manufacturers
Wittmunder Klinker Neuschoo, Batiment, Rabensteiner Brixen / Bressanone.
Location
Oberhausen, Germany.
Photography
Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn, Johannes Kuehn. Kuehn Malvezzi
Architects Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn and Johannes Kuehn founded Kuehn Malvezzi in Berlin in 2001.
Public spaces, museums and exhibitions are the main focus of their work as architects, designers and curators. They realized the architectural design for Documenta 11, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as the Julia Stoschek Collection in Dusseldorf, which was nominated for the international Mies van der Rohe Award. The firm has designed the reorganization of a number of contemporary and historical art collections, attending to sensitive preservation issues for listed buildings, such as the Museum Belvedere in Vienna, the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt, the Museum Berggruen and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, as well as the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.
Public spaces, museums and exhibitions are the main focus of their work as architects, designers and curators. They realized the architectural design for Documenta 11, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as the Julia Stoschek Collection in Dusseldorf, which was nominated for the international Mies van der Rohe Award. The firm has designed the reorganization of a number of contemporary and historical art collections, attending to sensitive preservation issues for listed buildings, such as the Museum Belvedere in Vienna, the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt, the Museum Berggruen and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, as well as the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.
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