Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse
Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse
Kuehn Malvezzi
ARCHITECTS
Kuehn Malvezzi
LEAD ARCHITECT
Kuehn Malvezzi
PHOTOGRAPHS
Hiepler, Brunier,
LANDSCAPE
Atelier Le Balto
CONSULTANT - BUILDING PHYSICS
Müller-bbm Gmbh
CLIENTS
Ogm Oberhausener Gebäudemanagement Gmbh
AREA
7839 M²
CONSULTANT - BUILDING SERVICES
Hl-technik
YEAR
2019
DESIGN TEAM
Margherita Fanin, Rebekka Bode, Felix Rohde, Konstanze Beelitz, Anna Naumann,
Moritz Scheible, Francesco Pizzorusso, Martin Löffler, Karin Fendt, Peter Franz Weber
CATEGORY
Greenhouse, Other Public Administration Buildings
CONSULTANT BUILDING SURVEILLANCE ARCHITECTURE
Hpp
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Frankenstein Consult
COLLABORATOR CONTROL AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
Double Standards
CONSULTANT FIRE PROTECTION SPECIALIST
Hagen Ingenieurgesellschaft Für Brandschutz Mbh
COLLABORATOR GREENHOUSE PLANNER
Haas Architekten, Berlin
MANUFACTURERS
Wittmunder Klinker Neuschoo, Batiment, Rabensteiner Brixen / Bressanone
LOCATION
Oberhausen, Germany
The office building in the center of Oberhausen combines the diverse functions of a public administrative building and rooftop garden in a new way, integrating features of both typologies.
The tension between the physicality of the brick building and the delicate lightness of the greenhouse creates a new identity that affects the urban context of the Altmarkt, an important location in the city.
A vertical garden connects the square with the roof garden. Developed in collaboration with landscape architects Atelier Le Balto, it is an effective urban planning element that purposefully combines the old and new landscape typologies as a public space.
A varied course leads visitors from the tree-lined market square up steps and platforms, past climbing plants and seating areas, to the roof.
From the rooftop, the view opens up over the historical center of the city.
A part of the rooftop greenhouse, which was planned in cooperation with Haas Architekten, is a research area used by the Oberhausen-based Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology, to realize its concepts in the field of building-integrated agriculture.
