Innovation campus in Hellerau - naturally made of wood
24.02.2020
The German workshops in Hellerau are among the world's leading companies in the finishing of private residences, yachts and luxury hotels. Their quality standards are correspondingly high. We are looking forward to the exciting tasks in planning the new campus and to our increasing international projects.
Hellerau is a district on the northern outskirts of Dresden in eastern Germany. In 1909 it was founded as the first German garden city according to the basic ideas of the English Ebenezer Howard. founded. The original idea of the garden city Hellerau of a new kind of city: life and work are fully embedded in a garden environment. embedded in a garden environment. This is the basis for the new campus. The renowned architecture firm Caruso St John Architects with offices in Zurich and London, won the competition with their convincing project "a house in a garden".
They designed the building as a freestanding pavilion in the newly newly arranged landscape space. With its two stories, it lies in the shadow of the moving roofscape of the main building. Each workstation has a close and productive relationship with the surrounding landscape, and even from the second floor there is an there is an immediate proximity to the garden space. The visible wooden structure underlines the direct material connection with the heavily forested slope to the north of the site. north of the site.
The clear room layout is ideally suited for a timber construction: the central The central concrete core grounds the entire building and assumes a bracing function. The walls and ceilings of the workspaces are made of wood.
Source: Caruso St John Architects