DZNE German Center For Neurodegenerative Diseases
DZNE GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Wulf Architekten
ARCHITECTS
Wulf Architekten
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Drees & Sommer GmbH
ELECTRICAL PLANNING
Ibb Burrer & Deuring
PLANNING TEAM
Steffen Vogt, Harald Baumann, Julia Beierbach, Regina Brenner, Indre Herrmann, Andreas Kolb, Anja Lauser, Daniela Momirowski, Cristiana Moura, Jakup Pakula, Sonja Schmuker, Sebastian Stocker, Gaston Stoff, Anna Teresa Tiefert, Stephan Tittl, Boris Weix, Ana Yotova
LOCAL CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Alber & Schulze Baumanagement GmbH
STRUCTURE PLANNING
Mayr | Ludescher | Partner
BUILDING PHYSICS/SUSTAINABILITY/FAÇADE PLANNING
DS-Plan
ART ON THE BUILDING
Rob Mulholland
COMPETITION TEAM
Steffen Vogt, Andreas Moll, Boris Weix
LOCAL CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Alber & Schulze Baumanagement GmbH
FIRE PROTECTION
HHP Nord/Ost Beratende Ingenieure GmbH
LABORATORY PLANNING
Dr. Heinekamp Labor- und Institutsplanung
ORIENTATION SYSTEM
Büro uebele visuelle kommunikation, büro uebele visuelle kommunikation
BUILDING PHYSICS / FACADE PLANNING / COORDINATION OF THE VALUATION AS SUSTAINABLE BUILDIN
DS-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft für ganzheitliche Bauberatung
HVS PLANNING
IWP Ingenieurbüro für Systemplanung GmbH, IGF Ingenieurgesellschaft Feldmeier mbH
CLIENT
Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
MANUFACTURERS
VELUX Commercial, Vitro®, FSB Franz Schneider Brakel, Feco, Object Carpet, Pollmeier, Braun, Kvadrat, Schupo, Vellum, Wander
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Adler & Olesch Mainz Landschaftsarchitekten und Ingenieure
AREA
35938 m²
YEAR
2017
LOCATION
Bonn, Germany
CATEGORY
Healthcare Center
Text description provided by architect.
The new building for the DZNE, where the similarities and differences of various brain diseases are studied, is located on the southern edge of University Hospital’s Venusberg Campus in Bonn.
With a usable floor area of approximately 16,000 m2, the DZNE provides optimal scientific conditions for an international team of more than 500 employees and visiting researchers.
The building volume is split into three distinctive, organically shaped individual buildings. These form a coherent ensemble with extensive intervening outdoor spaces.
The three-part division corresponds exactly to the internal functions: the entrance building with all the general facilities – which include an auditorium, a cafeteria, a library, and the clinical research department; the central research building with all the laboratory facilities and offices; and the preclinical institute. The three buildings are joined by hinges that can be used as meeting points.
The site’s defining element is a pine forest. Despite enclosing a considerable amount of space, the buildings are successfully integrated within the forest by virtue of their forms and the design of their facades.
Even though the workplaces are up to 17 meters away from the facade, the building’s forest setting can be felt everywhere.
This feeling is underscored by the striking facade of glass fins, which draws attention to the forest, reflects it inward as well as outward, and takes on the colors of its foliage as they change with the seasons.
With their flowing contours, the three-story buildings reinforce the impression of openness and transparency and emphasize the special status of the DZNE as the culmination of the University Hospital campus.
Whereas the ensemble opens out toward the forest to the south and east, the entrance building at the north establishes a clear presence and a distinctive point of arrival for the DZNE.
Upon entering the building through the main entrance, you immediately perceive the forest – an impression that is particularly impressive because a thirty-meter-deep, four-story-high entrance hall lies in between.
Inside and outside enter into a surprisingly strong dialogue.
