Winners of Reichstag Visitors Center's contest
11/11/2016.
[Berlin/Tiergarten] Germany
metalocus, LAURA CENTELLAS
metalocus, LAURA CENTELLAS
The jury met on the 3rd November 2016 and after two rounds of judging, beginning with 187 entries from all around the world, the jury reduced the number of competitors to 28 in the first round, finally settling on two first-place finalists after the second stage, one of which will be commissioned to design the Center. The competition for the construction of the German Bundestag was organized and co-ordinated by the German Federal Building Authority (Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung) and the Land of Berlin.
Rendering ©Markus Bonauer/Michael Bölling, Berlin with capattistaubach Landschaftsarchitekten
Site plan. ©Markus Bonauer/Michael Bölling, Berlin with capattistaubach Landschaftsarchitekten
Ground floor plan. ©Markus Bonauer/Michael Bölling, Berlin with capattistaubach Landschaftsarchitekten
Rendering ©Markus Bonauer/Michael Bölling, Berlin with capattistaubach Landschaftsarchitekten
The winning design included new buildings at the south of Scheidemannstraße, combining important functions like a visitors and information center, which include seminar and communication areas, shop, cloakroom and bistro, and around 6,600 square meters of gross floor space for the visitors to the Bundestag. The total cost of the project for the government is to be limited to €150M.
Winners (2).-
• Markus Bonauer/Michael Bölling, Berlin with capattistaubach Landschaftsarchitekten
• Markus Schietsch, Zürich with Lorenz Eugster Landschaftsarchitektur & Städtebau GmbH
• Markus Schietsch, Zürich with Lorenz Eugster Landschaftsarchitektur & Städtebau GmbH
The building itself is not the only element of the project, being the design of a tunnel linking the Visitors Center in the Tiergarten to the Reichstag also an essential part of the plan. The location and the course of the visitor tunnel were determined by the subsoil, which was densely covered by railway tracks and technical infrastructure, due to technical reasons. As a consequence of the pre-existing infrastructure paths in the subsoil, the entire project encompasses a particularly demanding civil engineering work.
In the project, the preservation of the important monumental avenues in the Tiergarten was to be taken into acount primary, same as the distance to the Soviet monument and the technical concerns with regard to the underground infrastructure .
Honorable Mentions (5)
• BGAA + FRPO Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos Asociados + FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol Arquitectos, Madrid (Spain) with VWA + UBERLAND, Vevey (Switzerland)
• bob-architektur BDA, Köln with FSWLA GmbH, Düsseldorf
• Henn GmbH, Berlin with Ingenieurgesellschaft BBP Bauconsulting mbH, Berlin
• Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten GmbH, Munich with Schüller Landschaftsarchitekten, Munich
• ARGE KIM NALLEWEG Architekten und César Trujillo Moya, Berlin with TDB Landschaftsarchitektur Thomanek Duquesnoy Boemans Partnerschaft, Berlin
• bob-architektur BDA, Köln with FSWLA GmbH, Düsseldorf
• Henn GmbH, Berlin with Ingenieurgesellschaft BBP Bauconsulting mbH, Berlin
• Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten GmbH, Munich with Schüller Landschaftsarchitekten, Munich
• ARGE KIM NALLEWEG Architekten und César Trujillo Moya, Berlin with TDB Landschaftsarchitektur Thomanek Duquesnoy Boemans Partnerschaft, Berlin
More information
Markus Bonauer
Markus Bonauer is a trained carpenter and registered architect with a primary focus on design, management and construction. Prior founding 2D+ he had a leading role in the design and construction of award winning projects in Europe, Asia, India and the USA. During his career, he gained experience in design offices such as JMayerH, Barkow-Leibinger, Fievre Jones and SOM New York and held several academic positions at Universities including Virginia Tech, UCLA and the TU Berlin. He is a graduate of the University of the Arts Berlin, a Fulbright scholar and graduated with a Master in Architecture from UCLA.
Michael Bölling
Michael Bölling is a founding partner at 2D+ and former Studio Head of the Design Department at Barkow Leibinger Architects in Berlin. As an experienced design specialist Mr. Bölling had a leading role in the design, management and construction of award winning international projects ranging from urban planning to product design, including the BMW Designhaus Munich, Daimler Headquarter Stuttgart, Tour Total Berlin, and the 2008 Venice Biennale. He is a graduate of the Technical University of Braunschweig and a recipient of the DAAD scholarship for exchange studies at the ETH Zurich.
Markus Schietsch
Markus Schietsch. The Zurich office was founded in 2005 by Markus Schietsch. We complete our core competences by design-related partnerships with established construction management offices so that we can offer an integral planning of all service phases from a single source. Thanks to a well-organized team and the close cooperation with numerous specialists, our lean office structure allows us to achieve a high level of performance with which we can also implement large-scale projects such as the Elefantenhaus Zoo Zürich and the Office for Consumer Protection.
