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Trumpf Schramberg Tech Center / Barkow Leibinger

Valeria Silva — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

TRUMPF's corporate campus in Schramberg, northeast of Freiburg im Breisgau, has been growing steadily for over twenty years. With more than 1,400 employees, it is now the company's second-largest location, after its headquarters in Ditzingen, Germany. In line with Barkow Leibinger's master plan for the current and future expansion of the site, a first extension building was completed in 2000, followed by a new Development Center for Laser Technology in 2013 and a Production Building in 2017. As the latest component of this plan, a new multifunctional Tech Center has been in operation since March 2023, combining various uses under its roof: laboratories, offices, and conference areas, as well as a large campus restaurant that seats 400 guests. Due to the topography of the site and the laboratories' special requirements, a significant portion of the allocated space has been built underground or into the sloping terrain. Only the two upper floors are visible from the main entrance, giving visitors a glimpse of the symbolic tip of an architectural "iceberg" as they approach. In total, the new building comprises four levels with an area of more than 14,000 square meters.

Trumpf Hungary Smart Factory / Barkow Leibinger

Valeria Silva — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Trumpf's Hungary "Smart Factory" is site-specific and located in Gödöllő in a ubiquitous industrial park on the outskirts of Budapest and for servicing Eastern Europe. Like Trumpfs's Smart Factory outside of Chicago it offers a more modestly scaled "factory/ showroom" to demonstrate Industry 2.0 where Trumpfs's machine tools are digitally and physically connected. Customers can experience the complete production chain from custom sheet metal forming to construction by their machines to delivery. This Smart Factory follows its own logic in terms of construction and technical resolution in reaction to site and place (building culture) in a refined and unique way typical to all Trumpf factories and buildings outside of its headquarters in Stuttgart.

The Frankfurt Prototype / Barkow Leibinger + Städelschule + Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences + Niklas Maak

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

With "The Frankfurt Prototype," students from the Städelschule and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS), under the academic direction of guest professor Dr. Niklas Maak, have realized a pioneering architectural project in the courtyard of the Senckenberg Research Institute. Initiated and conceptually guided by Maak, the temporary structure features an open, multifunctional market hall on the ground floor and flexible living and working spaces on the first floor, designed specifically for students. The building promotes social interaction and a connection to nature, integrating sustainable materials and adaptable spatial concepts. Architecture firm Barkow Leibinger supported the students in the planning and realization, accompanying the implementation of the prototype through to its completion in autumn 2024.

TRUMPF Fitness and Company Sports Center / Barkow Leibinger

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

After its beginning in the late 1960s as a factory with production halls and office buildings along the autobahn A81, over the course of the past decades, TRUMPF has developed into a successful high-tech corporation with a future-oriented campus for innovation and industry. It has evolved into an industrial village. In addition to production and administration buildings, there is also a training center, a daycare center, various event spaces for food, music, lectures, or parties, gardens and parks for rest and relaxation, a parking garage with spaces for electric vehicles and bikes, and now a new fitness and sports center.

HAWE Office Building / Barkow Leibinger

Andreas Luco — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0000

After the opening of the HAWE plant in Kaufbeuren in 2014, the first expansion was completed at the beginning of 2021: an extension of the front building by an additional 1,000 square meters providing space for 70 employees at the company, which specialized in hydraulic systems. The new building, completed after just one year of planning and construction, houses staff from the areas of marketing, development, and experimentation who had previously worked at a site in Altenstadt, which is now closed.

Uhlmann Office Building / Barkow Leibinger + Kinzo

Paula Pintos — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

After the completion of the first construction phase for logistics and production in 2016, the next step in the master planning for the mechanical engineering corporation Uhlmann was completed at the beginning of 2021.

Sid Richardson Residential College / Barkow Leibinger

Paula Pintos — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Supplementing an existing residential/ dormitory tower (from 1971 by Neuhaus and Taylor Architects) for Sid Rich College, the new college sets a milestone for Rice University’s rapidly growing campus in Houston. An incubator for architecture, Rice has a long history of supporting forward-looking architecture from its classical origins (a masterplan of 1910 by Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, Boston), through modernism in the 50-the 60s to post-modernism in the 80s (Michael Graves, James Sterling, Cesar Pelli) to an array of innovative recent buildings (Michael Malzahn, Thomas Phifer, and artist James Turrell).

5280 Courtyard House / Barkow Leibinger

Andreas Luco — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:00:00 +0000

This live/work compound is situated against the foothills of Mt. Elis along Leverich Creek on a gently sloping site facing Bozeman MT. and the Bridger Mountain Range. The region around the house is characterized by a mix of farmland with barns and ranch houses, suburban housing, and a nearby Richard Neutra house in log construction. Several other excellent mid-century examples of houses by Hugo Eck and Ozzie Berg are nearby including his Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University from 1957 which was the world's largest span glulam timber structure in the world. Winters are extreme, summers are short. Bozeman, which used to be considered somewhat remote, has become a much sought-after community to live in through the Corona pandemic. The advent of digital communication technologies (Zoom etc.) transformed similar cities into more viable places to live and work.

Belvedere - Remstal Pavilion / Barkow Leibinger

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Located at the intersection of several vineyards on the Kappelberg above the village of Fellbach, Belvedere is a project for “16 Stationen” (16 stations), which is a part of the Remstal Gartenschau 2019. Set in a place with a great panoramic view over the valley it underlines the particularity of the surrounding as well as the transformation process within the following ten years during the intervention.

Trumpf Day-Care Center / Barkow Leibinger

Paula Pintos — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:00:00 +0000

The machine-tool manufacturer, Trumpf, has completed its first company daycare center in the north-west edge of its Campus in Ditzingen. The one-story building was built using mass-timber elements prefabricated in a South Tyrolean factory and then assembled on site. The daycare center offers a place for 75 children of the employees and is also open to other children from the municipality.

Harvard ArtLab / Barkow Leibinger

Andreas Luco — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Harvard University’s ArtLab, a cross-curriculum space for the arts, is located on the school’s Allston campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designed to be curated and adapted by its users, the 9,000 square-foot space will be available to students, teachers, visiting artists, and the wider community.

Reception Area of the Schaubühne Berlin / Barkow Leibinger

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 01:00:00 +0000

Since 1981, Schaubühne Berlin has been housed on Lehniner Platz. The building, with its distinctive rounded façade, was erected as part of architect Erich Mendelsohn’s “WOGA- Complex” in 1928. After a lively, 90 - year long history seeing a variety of uses and numerous conversions, in the spring of 2018 the reception area of the now listed building underwent a redesign and expansion: following plans by Barkow Leibinger, a generous new box office has been created on the site of the former “Universum Lounge”. The ticket booth that previously occupied the foyer has been opened up bringing a bar to the reception area.

Trumpf Smart Factory Chicago / Barkow Leibinger

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:00:00 +0000

The factory and the exhibition space – ordinarily, these two project types would lie worlds apart for an architect. With one, functionality and cost-efficiency reign; with the other, the highest demands are placed on design and quality of execution. A new presentation and sales center for the German machine tool and laser manufacturer TRUMPF near Chicago combines both worlds and turns high-tech machines and innovative production processes into exhibition-like showpieces. Here, an Industry 4.0 demonstration factory fitted with digitally networked machines presents the entire sheet metal process chain, from ordering a sheet metal part to its design, production, and delivery, experienced as an intelligently interlinked, holistic process.

Office Building "Bertha Berlin" / Barkow Leibinger

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:00:00 +0000

A nine-story office building of 25,000 m2 is completed on Bertha-Benz-Straße as a fourth and final component of the “Lehrter Stadtquartier”, directly south-west of Berlin’s main railway station. The building is in direct dialog with the three other volumes of the ensemble, for which clear master planning directives were given in terms of the buildings’ volume, height, and materiality.

Apartment House Prenzlauer Berg / Barkow Leibinger

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:00:00 +0000

Tucked away in the inner courtyard of a block in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, an unusual residential house has emerged: With it’s steep roof looming some 10 meters above the building — more pyramid than cube — this boldly shaped building is entirely enveloped by a multi-colored brick skin. Irregularly proportioned aluminum-frame windows reference the history of these inner courtyards, often given over to industrial use in this area of the city at the time of the district’s initial development. At first glance, the appearance of the house does not seem to adhere to popular current conceptions of context-driven building expansions. In fact, it is the end result of tight parameters stemming from building regulations and historic preservation conditions. Used creatively as design tools, these restrictions led to a building that seems at the same time both familiar and strange, capable of blending into its surroundings while maintaining a strong independent character.

Trumpf Poland Technology Center / Barkow Leibinger

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 01:00:00 +0000

Trumpf Poland’s new headquarters in Warsaw, housing offices and exhibition areas, represent a prototype for an economically constructed industrial building combining a simple form with complex surfaces and differentiated interior spaces.

Serpentine Summer House / Barkow Leibinger

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:00:00 +0000

By commissioning a temporary summer pavilion by a leading architect every year, the Serpentine Galleries in Londons Kensington Gardens is known as an international site for architectural experimentation. Its Architecture Programme expands for 2016 with four Summer Houses joining the Serpentine Pavilion.

Aufbau Haus 84 / Barkow Leibinger

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:00:00 +0000

Aufbau Haus 84, Berlin.