TRUMPF Health and Firm Sports activities Heart / Barkow Leibinger
Textual content description offered by the architects. After its starting within the late Nineteen Sixties as a manufacturing unit with manufacturing halls and workplace buildings alongside the autobahn A81, over the course of the previous many years, TRUMPF has developed right into a profitable high-tech company with a future-oriented campus for innovation and business. It has developed into an industrial village. Along with manufacturing and administration buildings, there may be additionally a coaching middle, a daycare middle, varied occasion areas for meals, music, lectures, or events, gardens and parks for relaxation and rest, a parking storage with areas for electrical autos and bikes, and now a brand new health and sports activities middle.
The spatial and predominately horizontal, enlargement was made attainable by the supply of parcels of land and current buildings acquired over time as an unpredictable patchwork. Now the campus has reached the bounds of its horizontal development certain by the autobahn, town of Ditzingen, and a neighboring firm, it’s now compelled to densify and construct vertically.
The brand new sports activities middle marks a change within the company tradition of the machine producer TRUMPF. For the corporate, the brand new constructing is a solution to the brand new social and spatial wants of its employees in a altering working world. It presents the chance to create a spot that’s firmly rooted within the on a regular basis lifetime of the campus, and likewise fosters social and cultural encounters. Vertical densification (constructing on high of an current constructing) presents an answer whereas providing diversified programming for the campus.
An empty space on the roof of the logistics middle on the southwestern finish of the campus was used as an acquired constructing website for the brand new 7,400 sqm sports activities middle. The middle, situated roughly 30 meters above floor degree, is accessed through lengthy exterior stairs (a part of the coaching parkour) and an elevator for transporting individuals and items. The constructing is organized into two areas: a health, yoga, and sophistication space with a lobby and altering rooms in addition to a sports activities corridor with three enjoying fields utilized by TRUMPF’s firm sports activities golf equipment and groups for basketball, soccer, and badminton. The remaining roof was extensively planted and presents a panoramic view of the company campus.
To lower the burden in addition to the CO2 footprint of the rooftop building, the extension is a prefabricated timber building of straightforward and economical laminated spruce that type a 1-story quantity with a mezzanine. The clear span of the trusses within the corridor reaches 23,5 m, with a peak of as much as 1,2 m. Within the space of the health areas, the span width is halved. The glazing of the southern façade consists of a steady double façade (to guard acoustically from the loud Autobahn), supplemented within the space for train machines with an insulating glass layer and wind-protected solar safety.
The sports activities corridor has no insulating glass, which is merely changed with protecting netting. Translucent polycarbonate panels shut off the house to the north. Giant sliding doorways to the rooftop backyard present contemporary air air flow to the sports activities corridor. The sports activities middle quantity hovers above the Autobahn and agricultural fields and by night time acts like a glowing lantern.
