Bengaluru, India
The Siemens Healthineers Campus Bengaluru by Eller + Eller Architekten GmbH with Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH is a new global campus for research and development for Siemens Healthineers, the global leader in medical technology for diagnostics and therapy.
This new complex will be the largest of all global sites of the German company and will be the largest investment to date.
The guiding theme of the campus is enhanced by new methods of leadership with connectivity, collaboration, communication, and transparency.
The Siemens Healthineers Campus Bengaluru has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honorable Mention by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Technological innovation is not only generated in the spatially clearly defined functional areas tailored to focused work, facilitating research and development but also through casual encounters with other people and informal exchange of ideas and opinions, facilitating an interdisciplinary impulse.
Human encounters and the diversified circulation on campus is given a new dimension through the architectural landscape designed by Eller + Eller Architects together with Arup and Rainer Schmidt landscape architects, providing an inspiring stage.
Seven buildings, staggered in height and grouped around a landscaped courtyard, are connected to each other on several levels via terrace-like skywalks and sky gardens.
These connecting and intermediate zones, as well as the flights of stairs set in atriums and air spaces, are much more than just walkways: rather, they serve as attractive meeting and communication zones between the zoned work and functional areas.
The symbolic heart of the campus is the open-air lounge with trees and ample greenery, as a marketplace for people to meet.
Architecture and open space combine to form a unified gesture, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside.
The movement on campus permanently enables new perspectives, insights, and outlooks, inviting its occupants to discover and broadens their horizon.
Notwithstanding the high transparency and openness of the loosely interspersed structures, the building complex is kept compact and allows for shortcuts if needed.
If additional space would be required in the future, the structure provides for a possible expansion of the campus with additional buildings.
Siemens Healthineers’ goal of becoming a carbon neutral company by 2030 receives extensive attention in the campus’ differentiated sustainability concept.
The project takes advantage of Bangalore’s climate by proposing a campus layout and building design that maximizes the use of natural ventilation and natural daylight while reducing exposure to excessive solar radiation.
The large potential for solar energy generation is effectively exploited through the integration of semi-transparent photovoltaics on the atrium canopies and roof-integrated photovoltaics.
Large open spaces with intensive greening and water retention areas are designed to create a mild local microclimate that is comfortable for users, reduces air temperature and energy demand for cooling, and is naturally resistant to heavy rainfall.
The office buildings are operated with a mixed ventilation system that utilizes natural ventilation when needed.
For this purpose, the atriums are equipped with canopies that create a “Venturi effect,” enhancing a natural stack effect within the atriums.
Project: Siemens Healthineers Campus
Architects: Eller + Eller Architekten GmbH
Landscape Architects: Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH
Client: Siemens Healthineers Private Limited
Images Courtesy of the Architects
