Walldorf, Germany
Enlisted by Assay Immobiliengesellschaft, haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 collaborates with Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl to build a new logistics and administration center for Promega developing an open working landscape that extends across three floors of the office building offering space for about 115 employees together with enough space for future growth.
Promega’s Logistics and Administration Center 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.
In this logistics and administration center all office spaces, logistics, and production areas are arranged around a distinctive marketplace, extending over a number of floors.
Employees, guests, and visitors reach the marketplace through a striking main entrance which is emphasized by cantilevered floor slabs, and a part of the building, the employee’s cafeteria, turned outwards to address the landscape.
An essential part of any planning process is the conscious use of the available resources such as land, energy, water, building materials, and people both during construction and subsequent operation.
In the case of Promega, this includes the restoration of the previously used agricultural land and its integration into a landscape, which forms part of a holistic climate and comfort concept.
The re-naturalization of the landscape sees the re-establishment of natural water cycles.
To this end, the roof surfaces are mostly created as green roofs, impermeable surfaces are kept to a minimum, and a percolation well is established.
The new lake is integrated into this water cycle, serving as a rainwater reservoir and relieving the loads placed on public drainage infrastructure.
The water feature is also used for filtering, improvement of the immediate microclimate, and as a source of grey water for use as a fire extinguishing reservoir and for the irrigation of green areas inside and out.
Inside the new building, a high-quality environment is ensured through several means.
In order to provide optimum levels of human comfort, the individual rooms, the high-performance building envelope, and the building mechanical systems have been harmonized with regard to heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylight.
All permanently used areas are designed to maximize the use of natural lighting in the workplace, regardless of whether along the façade or facing toward the atrium.
The façade design ensures thermal protection through passive and active regulation of solar radiation.
Thermal comfort and indoor air quality are supported by mechanical ventilation and building component activation connected to a geothermal field integrated into the foundation system.
The large atrium provides a natural stack effect which is central to the interior climate concept.
The rooftop photovoltaic provides most of the total energy needed for the building.
Project: Logistics and Administration Center Promega
Architects: haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050
Design Team: Matthias Jänicke, Sandro Ruiu, Felix Wolf, Lena Götze, Ariane Prevedel, Lisa Brinks, Eduardo Martín Rodríguez, and Dominika Lis
Landscape Architects: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl GmbH
Structural Engineers and Façade Engineers: Knippers Helbig GmbH
General Contractor: haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050
Client: Assay Immobiliengesellschaft mbH
Photographers: Roland Halbe Fotografie
