DZNE German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Back to Projects list- Location
- Sigmund-Freud-Straße 27, 53127 Bonn
- Year
- 2017
- Client
- Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (DZNE) Bonn
- Team
- Steffen Vogt (PL), Harald Baumann, Julia Beierbach, Regina Brenner, Indre Herrmann, Andreas Kolb, Anja Lauser, Daniela Momirowski, Cristiana Moura, Jakup Pakula, Sonja Schmuker, Sebastian Stocker, Gaston Stoff, Anna Teresa Tiefert, Stephan Tittl, Boris Weix, Ana Yotova
- Local construction management
- Alber & Schulze Baumanagement GmbH, Stuttgart
- Project management
- Drees & Sommer GmbH, Köln
- Structure planning
- Mayr | Ludescher | Partner, Stuttgart
- Landscape design
- Adler & Olesch GmbH, Mainz
- Orientation system
- büro uebele visuelle kommunikation, Stuttgart
- Awards
- Bewertungssystem Nachhaltiges Bauen für Bundesgebäude (BNB): Gold
Our design is based on the clear division of the space allocation plan into three solitaires, which form a coherent ensemble with generous, intervening open spaces and are connected to each other via joints that are used as meeting points. The characteristic, organic form of the ensemble recalls biological cell structures and creates a new identity for the DZNE on Campus Venusberg.
The new DZNE building, in which various brain diseases are being researched, is located on the southern edge of the Campus Venusberg at the University Hospital Bonn. The building volume is split into three distinctive, organically shaped individual buildings. The three-part division corresponds to the internal functions: The entrance building with all the common facilities (lecture hall, cafeteria, library) and clinical research, the central research building with the laboratory facilities for basic research and the pre-clinical institute.
The characteristic element of the village is a pine forest. In spite of the large construction volume, the buildings are absorbed into the building - a consequence of the shape of the building structures and their facade design. Although the workstations are located up to 23 metres from the facade, the special location in the forest can be felt everywhere. The striking facade of glass lamellas, which thematises the forest, reflects it back and forth and takes up its foliage colouring with the changing colours, which changes with the seasons, also provides the setting.
The DZNE is the first laboratory building throughout Germany to receive the BNB (evaluation system for sustainable building) certification in »Gold«.