543 Lecture Hall and Laboratory Building of the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Competition: 2000 - 1st Prize
Construction period: 2009 - 2010
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project director/Project manager: Gerog Kolendowicz
Project team: Olaf Ballerstedt, Andrea Stahl, Jan Kallert et al.
Client: Freistaat Thüringen vertr. durch das Landesamt für Bau und Verkehr; Abteilung Hochbau Erfurt
Gross area: 2.066 m²
Volume: 7.654 m³
Lecture and laboratory buildings of the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt are heated by cistern technology:
Green Campus - the university building as a research-object
The University of Applied Sciences Erfurt expanded its traditional focus with practical new fields of activity towards forward-looking solutions to problems of energy supply and use as well as monitoring.
Gerber Architekten plan lecture and laboratory buildings considering high-energy requirements from the support framework of the federal 'Energy-optimized construction' close to the standards of a passive house. High-quality conference and work rooms, classrooms, two laboratories and a computer-pool invite to a place that is more than a place of knowledge:
The university building is already being used by the students for research in terms of a project-oriented, compulsory teaching following the principles of sustainability. 665 students will move into the faculty and can study on an area of almost 1,000 square meters.
The design’s characteristic feature is the connection of the buildings with the surrounding landscape. An elongated glazed entrance hall and a courtyard, which is lowered by seating steps, link the sleek, cubic new building with the two existing buildings. Hence, the open arrangement of spaces forms a unity with the outlying area, which is designed as an educational green park.
