Wolfsburg, Germany 2000–2005
PROGRAM:
Science Center, restaurant, cafe, shop, auditorium and underground car park
CLIENT: Neuland Wohnbaugesellschaft mbH
Erfurter Ring 15
38444 Wolfsburg, Germany
SIZE:
Science Center: 12000 m2
Underground Car Park: 15000 m2
CONCEPT:
Located on a very special site in the City of Wolfsburg it is set both as the endpoint of a chain of important cultural buildings (by Aalto, Scharoun and Schweger) as well as being a connecting link to the north bank of the Mittelland Kanal -Volkswagen’s Car Town. Multiple threads of pedestrian and vehicular movement are pulled through the site both on an artificial ground landscape and inside and through the building, effectively composing an interface of movement-paths.
Volumetrically, the building is structured in such a way that it maintains a large degree of transparent and porosity on the ground, since the main volume – the Exhibition – is raised thus covering an outdoor public plaza with a variety of commercial and cultural functions which reside in the structural concrete cones. An artificial crater-like land-scape is developed inside the open exhibition space allowing diagonal views to the different levels of the exhibition-scape, while volumes, which protrude, accommodate other functions of the science center. A glazed public wormhole-like extension of the existing bridge flows through the building allowing views to and from the exhibition space.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY:
ARCHITECT:
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
DESIGN: Zaha Hadid with Christos Passas
Zaha Hadid Architects + Mayer Baehrle Freie Architekten BDA (Loerrach, DE)
PROJECT ARCHITECT: Christos Passas
ASST. PROJECT ARCHITECT: Sara Klomps
PROJECT TEAM: Sara Klomps, Gernot Finselbach, David Salazar,
Helmut Kinzler
COMPETITION TEAM: Christos Passas, Janne Westermann, Chris Dopheide, Stanley Lau, Eddie Can, Yoash Oster, Jan Hubener, Caroline Voet
CONTRIBUTORS: Silvia Forlati, Guenter Barczik, Lida Charsouli, Marcus Liermann, Kenneth Bostock, Enrico Kleinke, Constanze Stinnes, Liam Young, Chris Dopheide, Barbara Kuit, Niki Neerpasch, Markus Dochantschi
PROJECT ARCHITECT (Mayer Baehrle): Rene Keuter, Tim Oldenburg
PROJECT TEAM (Mayer Baehrle): Sylvia Chiarappa, Stefan Hoppe, Andreas Gaiser, Roman Bockemühl, Annette Finke, Stefanie Lippardt, Marcus Liermann, Jens Hecht, Christoph Volkmar
CONSULTANTS:
STRUCTURAL: Adams Kara Taylor (London, UK),
Tokarz Freirichs Leipold (Hanover, DE)
SERVICES: NEK (Braunschweig, DE), Buro Happold (London, UK)
COST: Hanscomb GmbH
LIGHTING: Fahlke & Dettmer (Hanover, DE), Office for Visual Interaction (New York, USA)
Science Center, restaurant, cafe, shop, auditorium and underground car park
CLIENT: Neuland Wohnbaugesellschaft mbH
Erfurter Ring 15
38444 Wolfsburg, Germany
SIZE:
Science Center: 12000 m2
Underground Car Park: 15000 m2
CONCEPT:
Located on a very special site in the City of Wolfsburg it is set both as the endpoint of a chain of important cultural buildings (by Aalto, Scharoun and Schweger) as well as being a connecting link to the north bank of the Mittelland Kanal -Volkswagen’s Car Town. Multiple threads of pedestrian and vehicular movement are pulled through the site both on an artificial ground landscape and inside and through the building, effectively composing an interface of movement-paths.
Volumetrically, the building is structured in such a way that it maintains a large degree of transparent and porosity on the ground, since the main volume – the Exhibition – is raised thus covering an outdoor public plaza with a variety of commercial and cultural functions which reside in the structural concrete cones. An artificial crater-like land-scape is developed inside the open exhibition space allowing diagonal views to the different levels of the exhibition-scape, while volumes, which protrude, accommodate other functions of the science center. A glazed public wormhole-like extension of the existing bridge flows through the building allowing views to and from the exhibition space.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY:
ARCHITECT:
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
DESIGN: Zaha Hadid with Christos Passas
Zaha Hadid Architects + Mayer Baehrle Freie Architekten BDA (Loerrach, DE)
PROJECT ARCHITECT: Christos Passas
ASST. PROJECT ARCHITECT: Sara Klomps
PROJECT TEAM: Sara Klomps, Gernot Finselbach, David Salazar,
Helmut Kinzler
COMPETITION TEAM: Christos Passas, Janne Westermann, Chris Dopheide, Stanley Lau, Eddie Can, Yoash Oster, Jan Hubener, Caroline Voet
CONTRIBUTORS: Silvia Forlati, Guenter Barczik, Lida Charsouli, Marcus Liermann, Kenneth Bostock, Enrico Kleinke, Constanze Stinnes, Liam Young, Chris Dopheide, Barbara Kuit, Niki Neerpasch, Markus Dochantschi
PROJECT ARCHITECT (Mayer Baehrle): Rene Keuter, Tim Oldenburg
PROJECT TEAM (Mayer Baehrle): Sylvia Chiarappa, Stefan Hoppe, Andreas Gaiser, Roman Bockemühl, Annette Finke, Stefanie Lippardt, Marcus Liermann, Jens Hecht, Christoph Volkmar
CONSULTANTS:
STRUCTURAL: Adams Kara Taylor (London, UK),
Tokarz Freirichs Leipold (Hanover, DE)
SERVICES: NEK (Braunschweig, DE), Buro Happold (London, UK)
COST: Hanscomb GmbH
LIGHTING: Fahlke & Dettmer (Hanover, DE), Office for Visual Interaction (New York, USA)
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