Federal Environmental Agency (Dessau, Germany) : Detail, where the office area meets the glass Atrium on the façade
- Creator:
- Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, founded 1989
- Published/Created:
- Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Wörlitzer Platz 1
1998-2002 - Physical Description:
- 41,000 m2 (area)
- Date Depicted:
- 4/15/2009
- Materials:
- steel; glass; larch wood
- Notes:
- The Umweltbundesamt (UBA) is the German equivalent of the EPA in the US; it monitors environmental concerns. The building in Dessau contains the main offices (800 workers in 10 departments) and is a very large complex which has integrated two older buildings into it; the Wörlitzer Bahnhof (a listed building and former train station) and an adjacent factory building (which manufactured gas appliances). The new construction is a four-storey curved building of about 460m length, with the offices placed either side of a central corridor, and a tree-like circulation route. A key purpose is to break down the potentially monolithic nature of the facade, while providing a color code for seven different areas of the building. The facade, which is 35 per cent glass, has eight alternating horizontal bands of timber and glass. Spandrels are clad in larch slats, which will weather to silver-gray. Clear glazed windows are set back 30 cm from the timber; in between a series of glass 'blocks' of varying widths are inserted, with screen-print color enamelled onto the back surface. It has the German equivalent of a Gold LEED certification.
- Variant Titles:
- Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Dessau
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Germany -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- Germany -- 21st century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Contemporary
Twenty-first century - Culture:
- German
- Accession Number:
- 1A2-G-D-A11
- Coordinates:
- +51.842151+12.239203
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
office buildings (AAT)
public buildings: government office buildings (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
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- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- buildings; public buildings; government office buildings architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); Sustainable buildings
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Seven
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
4/15/2009 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4349
- OID:
- 10472029
- PID:
- digcoll:1819734