Uhlmann Office Building
Uhlmann Office Building
Barkow Leibinger + Kinzo
ARCHITECTS
Barkow Leibinger + Kinzo
CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Offices Interiors
LOCATION
Laupheim, Germany
AREA
68570 Ft²
YEAR
2020
PHOTOGRAPHS
David Franck, Philip Kottlorz
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Nps Bauprojektmanagement Gmbh
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Bfb Bauningenieure Gmbh
INTERIOR DESIGN
Kinzo
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Ib Puscher Gmbh
HVAC
Planungsbüro Baur Gmbh
PRINCIPAL
Heiko Krech
MODEL
Konstantin Greune, Reidar Mester
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Tim Unnebrink
TEAM
Annette Wagner
CLIENT
Uhlmann Pac-systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg, Laupheim
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Matthäus Schmid Gmbh
After the completion of the first construction phase for logistics and production in 2016, the next step in the master planning for the mechanical engineering corporation Uhlmann was completed at the beginning of 2021.
A four-story office building provides space for about 300 employees on the company’s campus in Laupheim.
Located directly on Uhlmannstraße, the building is an important building block of the “meander,” the foundational design principle of the master plan from 2013.
Together with the logistics and production building, it forms a 300 m long front and thus marks the representative introduction to the campus for visitors.
A combination of glass surfaces that can be used for natural ventilation through window sashes, and opaque panels made of white glass, ensures that the building has an energetically economical façade.
At the same time, the interplay of silver anodized aluminum fins and glazed openings take up the formal vocabulary of the logistics and production building.
Inside, the orthogonal office floor plan, the rigorous aligning of two cores made of exposed concrete, and the regularity of the façade grid stand in interesting contrast to the work environments designed by KINZO, which are characterized by playful shapes and strong touches of color.
