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SIGN TOWER
The development of the old Rhine Harbor into a modern business district is an important urban project in Düsseldorf. It is known as Mediahafen and already built up to a large extend with very individualistic buildings. The primary intention of the project is therefore to counter the variety of forms and colors with a building of great simplicity, elegance and identity. It should not convince through form and style, but through the quality of the materials, the flexibility in its use and the high comfort it offers the users. Through its technology and construction it should advance the typology of the office block. The plan is a ‘Roundangle’ whose curved corners continue to form a semi-circular roof. Elevators
and stairs are in a separate rectangle of glass. Columns with brackets along the exterior wall enable column-free spaces in the office areas. The overlapping sheets of insulating glass form the shingled surface. At the offset at the slab edge decentralized air is brought directly into the room as fresh air through an operating sash, or cooled and heated through water in a fan assisted convector and distributed as displacement air. The façade is allowed to ‘breathe’. The building acts like a natural skin, therefore, conventional operable windows are not necessary. IMAGES BY RAINER VIERTLBOECK
YEAR
SIZE
TYPE
STATUS
LOCATION
CLIENT
COLLABORATION
2010
14.625 M2
OFFICE
COMPLETED
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
SAP
HELMUT JAHN. FRANCISCO GONAZLES PULIDO