New development of an office building for the Department for Urban Development and the Environment (BSU) in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. The new building consists of seven 23 m high low-rise buildings and a round 54 m high-rise building.
Scope of Work
The unitised façade of the new building BSU Hamburg comprises 2,044 units with a total area of 20,000 sqm. The standard units have a dimension of 2.60 m x 3.33 m. The largest units on the ground floor are 4.80 m high. The arrangement of the façade units is divided into flat, convex and concave units. The curtain wall units in the building curves are installed polygonally.
Every curtain wall unit offers two ways of natural ventilation and both are provided with a window handle for manual actuation: opening of a turn and tilt window with triple insulating glass and opening of a ventilation flap integrated in an aluminium window.