Schwanthalerstraße office building, Munich (DE)
New building
Client: Hestia SPV S.á.r.l., Luxembourg / AXA Investment Managers Deutschland GmbH., Frankfurt am Main
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Competition: 2020, 2-stage planning competition, 2. prize
Space: 23,280 m²
Programme: Offices, underground car park
Visualisation: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Team
Fredi Botz, Sophia Brauner, Nina Burri, Dominik Malz, Julia Schmid, Michael Sohm, Fabia Stieglmeier
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Statics: Knippers Helbig, Stuttgart
Building physics: Transsolar, Munich
Landscape: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, Überlingen
Light: Bartenbach, Munich
Fire protection: Kersken + Kirchner, Munich
Inviting arches, green circles, strict grids
South of Munich's main railway station, urban life pulsates in its most colourful and dense form. Our design for a new office building creates an urban block within the neighbourhood that blends into the street space but develops its own personal microcosm inside.
An ultra-modern building that fulfils the requirement for flexibility and adaptability and lives sustainability at the highest level. In the base area, inviting, large arches and open, high rooms connect the interior and exterior. A funnel-shaped widened arch with a small forecourt forms the striking address for the office use.
Green cosmos
The lush green inner courtyard offers users a sheltered, communal cosmos for breaks, informal meetings or individual work. Adjacent to the inner courtyard, two staircase and lift cores provide access to the entire office building. The open-plan layout guarantees a flexible, future-proof building. Only the inner courtyards, access cores and shafts are fixed, so that office units of between 200 and 1,670 m² can be let separately on each floor.
Flexibility and next life
The free floor plan and access via the inner courtyard allows to use the entire building or individual floors also for other purposes at a later date, such as apartments, medical practices or a hotel. Should the building eventually become obsolete, the upper floors can be completely dismantled and recycled.
Silver rods as privacy screen
Six equivalent storeys lie on the base arches. Room-high façade elements made of larch wood with opening sashes and horizontal ceiling bands create a strict grid across the glass façade. A curtain structure made of silver aluminium rod profiles provides privacy and shading and directs the light deep into the room.
