innovation and development centre for Sedus Dogern, Germany

Sauerbruch Hutton architects
client: Sedus Stoll AG, Dogern
project architects: Sauerbruch Hutton
architects, London/Berlin
(Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton,
Lucas Young), Mareike Lamm)
project team: Jürgen Bartenschalag,
Sabine Bruckmann, Angelika Fehn
Krestas, Tom Geister, Agnieszka
Kociemska, Claus Marquart, Marc
Schwabedissen
environmental engineering:
Zibell Willner & Partner, Berlin
structural engineering:
Werner Sobek Ingenieure, Stuttgart
landscape architect: ST raum a, Berlin
Dogern, Germany
text by Sauerbruch Hutton architects
photo by Hisao Suzuki
innovation and development
centre for Sedus
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Matthias Sauerbruch Prof. Dipl.
Ing., AA Dipl, ARB, Architect BdA,
born 1955 in Constance, Germany.
1984 - Diplomas from the HdK
Berlin and the Architectural
Association, London
1985-90 - Unit Master at the
Architectural Association, London
1989 - founded practice with
Louisa Hutton in London
1993 - opened sha office in Berlin
1995-2001 - Professor at the
Technical University, Berlin
since 1999 - additional partners
Juan Lucas Young, Jens Ludloff
since 2001 - Professor at the
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden
Künste, Stuttgart; Guest Lecturer at
many Universities nationally and
internationally
Louisa Hutton BA (Hons), AA Dipl,
RIBA, born 1957 in Norwich,
England.
1980 - First Class Honours Degree
from Bristol University
1985 - Diploma at the Architectural
Association, London
1987-90 - taught at Croydon
College of Art, Unit Master at the
Architectural Association, London
Guest Lecturer at many Universities
nationally and internationally.
Principal works:
Photonics Centre, Berlin, 1998;
GSW Headquarters, Berlin, 1999;
Zumtobel Staff Showroom, Berlin,
1999; The British Council, Berlin,
2000; Experimental Factory,
Magdeburg, 2001;
Pharmacological Research
Laboratories, Biberach, 2002;
Town Hall, Hennigsdorf, 2003;
Fire and Police Station for the
Government District, Berlin, 2003;
Federal Agency for the Environment,
Dessau, 2004; Innovation and
Development Centre for Sedus,
Dogern, 2004.
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Il centro per il rinnovamento e lo sviluppo della
fabbrica di forniture uffici Sedus è stata progettato
come un edificio-studio improntato sulla flessibilità.
Esso consiste di tre piani della stessa dimensione
adibiti a laboratori, studi e uffici, ma concepiti come
se si trattasse di locali-magazzino (seminterrati).
In termini di forma e misure il nuovo centro ricerca
una sorta di mediazione tra la scala domestica delle
costruzioni tipiche della periferia ovest del villaggio
di Dogern e la grande scala dell’insediamento
industriale Sedus.
Un edificio a due piani è stato posizionato sul sito
industriale in linea con le vicine abitazioni, parallelo
alla strada. I tetti bitumati, tuttavia, sono orientati
secondo l’asse nord-sud (in funzione della luce
e dell’installazione dei pannelli solari). Il risultato
tridimensionale di questa combinazione di geometrie
è un edificio le cui facciate si presentano con
coronamenti diversi. Le finestre ellissoidali che
riflettono la deformazione relativa delle quattro facce
del volume sono generate dagli immaginari cilindri
paralleli proiettati attraverso l’edificio.
Il programma prevedeva anche un progetto di
restyling dei depositi esistenti, da ampliare di circa
trenta metri in larghezza. La nuova facciata si basa
sull’uso di un semplice sistema di rivestimento
prefabbricato realizzato in 20 speciali colori.
L’intenzione era quella di frammentare la superficie
e di integrare visivamente la massa dell’edificio
nel paesaggio circostante.
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The Innovation and
Development Centre for the
office furniture manufacturer
Sedus has been designed as
a flexible studio building
consisting of three equally
sized floors for workshops,
studios and offices, as well
as (basement) storage.
In terms of its shape and
size, the new centre mediates
between the domestic scale
of the houses at the western
end of village of Dogern and
the large scale of Sedus’ own
factory premises. A twostoreyed building is placed
on the site in line with the
neighbouring house, parallel
to the road. The pitched roofs
of the building, however, are
aligned directly north-south
(for quality of light and the
implementation of solar
panels).
The result of this combination
of geometries into the third
dimension is a building
whose façades have a varied
number of differentlyproportioned gables.
The elliptoidal windows
which reflect the relative
deformation of the four sides
are generated by imaginary
parallel cylinders that are
projected through
the building.
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The commission also includes
the design of a new skin for
Sedus’ existing high-bay
warehouse which was to be
extended by approximately
thirty metres in length. The
new façade is based on the
use of a straight-forward ‘offthe-shelf’ cladding system
which has been ordered in 20
special colours. The intention
is to fragment the surface and
so to integrate the visual mass
of the building into the
surrounding landscape.
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exhaust of excessive
heat in roof
solar panels
( min. ventilation)
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office
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work shop
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cooling ceiling
machine room
office
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exhaust of excessive
heat in roof
solar panels
( min. ventilation)
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fresh air supply
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machine room
solar panels
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laboratory
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project room
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cooling ceiling
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openable
windows
concrete core
activation
work shop
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machine room
laboratory
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exhaust of excessive
heat in roof
solar panels
solar panels
solar panels
( min. ventilation)
office
fresh air supply
work shop
used air
cooling ceiling
machine room
office
concrete core
activation
openable
windows
work shop
laboratory
project room
cooling ceiling
machine room
project room
office
work shop
cooling ceiling
machine room
office
openable
windows
concrete core
activation
laboratory
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project room
office
work shop
openable
windows
openable
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laboratory
air circulation winter
solar panels
openable
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office
openable
windows
air circulation spring/autumn
solar panels
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office
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air circulation summer
cooling ceiling
concrete core
activation
building
services
openable
windows
project room
office
cooling ceiling
machine room
office
openable
windows
concrete core
activation
laboratory
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project room
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concrete core
activation
work shop
machine room
laboratory
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solar panels
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project room
office
work shop
cooling ceiling
machine room
office
openable
windows
concrete core
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laboratory
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