District Council Office, Vechta, Germany
Competition: 1985 - 1st Prize
Construction period: 1995 - 1997
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project team: Friedmann Steinhausen, Johannes Groth, Ellen Herbst, Elvira Morczinietz, Matthias Rau et al.
Client: Deutsche Anlagen Leasing GmbH Mainz für den Landkreis Vechta
Gross area: 12.000 m²
Volume: 61.000 m³
A generous, forum-like courtyard – enclosed on three sides by the U-shaped administration building – is the formal and conceptual centre of the premises. According to its vital impor-tance, the parliamentary area is allocated in a special rotunda in the centre of the semi-public forum.
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