The office building is planned as a service center for the housing company LUWOGE and BASF's company health insurance company Fortisnova. It forms an essential part of the newly designed Brunckviertel.
Brunckstrasse is characterised by a dense, extensive tree population in which the existing buildings are embedded. The aim of the design is to maintain this site-specific character despite the required linearity of the building. In order to protect the office space on the one hand, but also the park behind it from the noise pollution of Brunckstrasse , the northern part of the building in itself forms a soundproofing function. Undisturbed communication and concentration areas are created in the office modules, with gardens with a private character in between. The building forms a noise barrier to Brunckstrasse, but at the same time maintains and focuses the visual connections into the park. The transparent staircase and entrance areas visually break through the hermetic nature of the clasp. Planted courtyards give rhythm to the building structure and interweave the northern avenue planting with the southern park. There are continuous transitions from the inside to the outside.
The three-storey office modules and the green inner courtyard areas in between form the strip of the main usable areas. The two-storey customer hall is the focal point of the building as an insertion. It is naturally lit and ventilated via two atriums.
Source: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten
Photos: Jens Passoth
