750 Central Building of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University on the Riedberg Campus
Otto-Stern-Center, Central Building of the Goethe University on the Riedberg Campus, Frankfurt/Main
Competition: 2006 - 1st Prize
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project director/Project manager: Jens Haake, Markus Petry
Project team: Olaf Schüler, Alexandra Kranert, Nils Kummer, Burkhard Ross, Oliver Skerbs, Rene Albrecht, Stefan Lemke, Rolf Knie, Andrzej Bleszynski, Juana Grunwald, Nafaa Ghannoudi, Eugen Schmidt, Keith Stoltenfeldt, Peter Masik et al.
Client: Land Hessen vertr. durch das Hessische Baumanagement RNL Rhein-Main
Gross area: 11.404 m²
Volume: 65.268 m³
The two-storey foyer forms the backbone of the slender and long building, which accommodates seminar rooms, the library and the cafeteria. Despite the difference in level of 3.50 m the foyer’s two storeys allow for an access at ground level from both of the flanking streets. Six lecture halls are shifted as a base beneath the accessible square clearly reducing the visible building mass. The underground lecture halls receive daylight from the sides via patios, cut into the square.
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