Notes of Interest
This pavilion provides a new central cafeteria and event space for a Stuttgart-based industrial campus. It is the new social center for the company for both blue- and white-collar workers. The pavilion, with seating for 700, enables the company’s 2000 employees to lunch around three time slots in the large central space with reserve seating in a mezzanine. When programmed for events the space functions as an auditorium with seating for 800.
A floating roof hovers over the central dining space and mezzanine that are placed in an excavated hollow. The intention was to create a polygonal leaf-like canopy that wide-spans over column-groups. Aesthetically, the roof as a fifth facade, is carefully organized with skylights, and air-vents, as it is highly visible from the mid-rise office buildings adjacent to it.
Neither a factory nor an office building, this freestanding pavilion introduces a new typology to the campus. Urbanistically the new restaurant helps to complete spatially the entrance courtyard. Formally its crystalline pentagon plan is a continuation of the crystalline ground plans of the new office building to which it is adjacent.
Architect
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Barkow Leibinger Architects
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Owner
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TRUMPF GmbH + Co.KG
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Location
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Stuttgart, Germany
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ADDITIONAL CREDITS
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Consultant
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Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH (Climate)
Gassmann + Grossmann (Management)
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Engineer
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Werner Sobek Stuttgart (Structural; Facade)
Schuckertstrasse 27
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Landscape Architect
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Buero Kiefer
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Photo Credit
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© Amy Barkow
© David Franck
© Christian Richters
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JURY COMMENTS
Crisp, elegant and ordered
with a fantastic floating
canopy that engages the
campus landscape, this
project brings together
company staff of all types
into a light-filled, open
gathering place.
Such a clever structural
strategy incorporating a
plywood honeycomb… This
is a beautiful project,
carefully designed and built
at all scales: site,
landscape, structure,
curtain wall, stairs and food
serving stations.
A remarkable gesture by a
very innovative employer
has led to a remarkable
dining space, an oasis for
employees.
2010 INSTITUTE HONOR AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE JURY
Richard L. Maimon, AIA (Chair)
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San Francisco
Jeffrey Lee, FAIA
Pearce Brinkley Cease & Lee P.A.
Raleigh
Justine N. Lewis
AIAS Representative
Atlanta
Miguel A. Rivera Agosto, AIA
Miró Rivera Architects
Austin
Mark Simon, FAIA
Centerbrook Architects & Planners
Centerbrook, Connecticut
H. Ruth Todd, AIA
Page & Turnbull Architects
San Francisco
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