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CALEDO, an internationally visible research building for the knowledge-based design of liquid phases, is being built at the TU Dortmund. The 5-storey building offers around 4,000 square metres of usable space for laboratory and office areas for interdisciplinary research work in the fields of bio- and chemical engineering, chemistry and chemical biology, and physics. The jointly used core facilities with special laboratories enable research into the fundamental modes of action of liquid phases for industrial applications.

The new building nestles into the natural topography of the sloping site at Otto-Hahn-Strasse 10 in Dortmund with a terraced, landscaped inner courtyard. Reddish clinker brick with its naturally iridescent surface covers the outer structure, which blends smoothly into the surroundings with rounded building corners and ends as a sculptural building cube with its large-scale, raised clinker brick parapets on the upper floor.
In 2018, Gerber Architekten was awarded the contract for the new research building in a VgV with design, which will be realised on behalf of the BLB NRW. CALEDO is one of the current projects in the field of research and laboratory construction. The inauguration of the HI ERN (Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies) took place in Erlangen as recently as July 2021.

Picture reference: Klaus Kaiser from the NRW Ministry of Culture and Science, TU Rector Prof. Manfred Bayer, Dr. Michael Meister from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, CALEDO spokesperson Prof. Gabriele Sadowski, Gabriele Willems from Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW, architect Prof. Eckhard Gerber from Gerber Architekten and TU Chancellor Albrecht Ehlers (from left) sink the time capsule for the new CALEDO research building at TU Dortmund.

Photo: © Martina Hengesbach