
- Space:
30000 m²
12 months:
2022

Textual content description offered by the architects. Within the new Werksviertel situated within the east of Munich, the place mashed potatoes, bikes and males’s fits have been as soon as manufactured and occasion folks have been out and about in Kunstpark Ost and Kultfabrik, a brand new city neighborhood offering a excessive degree of social range is presently underneath building. Prominently located with a view opening in the direction of the Ostbahnhof station, the placing iCampus Rhenania complicated of workplace buildings invitations passersby into the neighborhood.


The 2 new buildings function a black façade and loft-like home windows paying homage to the commercial heritage of the placement. They’re grouped round a listed villa – the previous administrative constructing of the Rhenania freight forwarding and relocation firm courting again to the Twenties.


In line with the neighborhood strategy, the design of the campus plaza situated within the heart of the ensemble resembles an “city village.” Outside seating areas in entrance of varied eating places and cafés, lengthy picket benches underneath bushes and inexperienced roof terraces create a spot the place folks take pleasure in working and spending their spare time.

Within the period of agile groups and dealing from dwelling, the constructing complicated supplies most flexibility: The construction and site of the event cores make it potential to change the structure of the flooring by inserting modules individually or linking them collectively. Due to this versatility, iCampus Rhenania can accommodate companies of various sizes and with completely different necessities regarding their workplace structure. A placing instance of environmental sustainability and progressive engineering is the component-activated ceiling components equipped by Innogration, which successfully present the rooms with district heating and cooling.


The complicated blends harmoniously into its city context. The small-scale improvement alongside Friedenstrasse replicates the size of the seemingly contradictory neoclassical villa, making a pure transition to the opposite iCampus buildings and the whole surrounding Werksviertel neighborhood. Open rooftop pergolas strike a steadiness between the flat terrain in the direction of the station and the four- to six-story workplace buildings regularly ascending in the direction of the campus heart. The constructing on Friedenstrasse is ready again barely to create an open villa view and alluring routes into the inside.

The black colour of the façade was developed particularly for this challenge in a Swiss laboratory. The yellow and golden iron mica it incorporates lends heat, friendliness, and, relying on the daylight, a shimmering depth to the buildings. 4 foremost entrances with lobbies going through the campus plaza hook up with the interiors, the place the tough, untreated concrete of the partitions and stairwells contrasts with the nice and cozy brass of the mailboxes, which can be seen on doorways, elevators and kitchenettes.

The thrilling ensemble of outdated and new employs the design thought of an “city village” to rework the realm into an progressive place of latest working and residing within the jap a part of Munich.
