Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Center 05 04 02 03 01 Date Location Project Client Size Status Built Neulandgesellschaft Neulandgesellschaft Phaeno Science Science Phaeno Wolfsburg Wolfsburg, Germany Wolfsburg, mbH On behalf mbH On behalf Center Center of the City of 27,000m² 2000 / 2005 2000 science center. A glazed public wormhole- public glazed A center. science like extension of the existing bridge flows and to views allowing building the through space. the exhibition from exhibition exhibition space allowing diagonal views to the different levels of the exhibition- scape, while volumes, which protrude, accommodate other functions of the with a variety of commercial and cultural functions which reside in the structural concrete cones. An artificial crater-like land-scape is developed inside the open since the main volume -the Exhibition- is plaza public outdoor an covering thus raised composing an interface of movement-paths. movement-paths. of interface an composing in structured is building the Volumetrically, degree large a maintains it that way a such ground, the on porosity and transparent of Multiple threads of pedestrian and vehicular vehicular and pedestrian of threads Multiple movement are pulled through the site and landscape ground artificial an on both effectively building, the through and inside Scharoun Scharoun and Schweger) as well as being a connecting link to the north bank of the Car Town. Mittelland Kanal -Volkswagen’s of structural organization. Located on a very special site in the City of Wolfsburg it is set both as the endpoint of a chain of important cultural buildings (by Aalto, covery. covery. The visitor is faced with a degree of complexity and strangeness, which is ruled however by a very specific system The The Science Center, the firstof its kind in Germany, appears as a object, mysterious giving rise to curiosity and dis- 10 09
Structural Engineers Taylor Kara Adams UK) (London, Freirichs Leipold Tokarz Germany) (Hanover, Services Engineers NEK Germany) (Braunschweig, Happold Buro (Berlin, London) Cost Consultant Hanscomb GmbH (Germany) ConsultantsLighting & Dettmer Fahlke Germany) (Hanover, Visual for Office Interaction USA) York, (New
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CompetitionTeam Passas Christos Westermann Janne Chris Dopheide Lau Stanley Eddie Can Oster Yoash Jan Hubener Voet Caroline Special Contributor (Zaha Hadid Architects) Schumacher Patrik Contributors (Zaha Hadid Architects) Silvia Forlati Guenter Barczik Lida Charsouli Marcus Liermann Bostock Kenneth Enrico Kleinke Constanze Stinnes Liam Young
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