The offices of David Chipperfield and the landscape architects of Atelier Loidl, have won the architectural competition for the new Headquarters of the Bayerische versorgungskammer (BVK). The complex will consist of two towers with a joining between the bars. Not too spectacular, the design is not. First of all, the IUC wanted to build a tower more than 100 meters in height, but against this there were objections. the Alfred Dürr

it Will be a boring box or an elegant creates a masterpiece? Is used the Chance, or missed, to put on the Middle Ring and in the immediate neighbourhood of the exceptional Hypo-high-rise building, another architectural highlight? Hardly the result of the competition for the headquarters of the Bayerische versorgungskammer (BVK), at the Richard-Strauss-Straße had become known, got the debate on the appearance of the current high-rise projects.

The IUC-Central is to be realized according to the winning design of the offices of David Chipperfield Architects with Atelier Loidl, landscape architect from Berlin. The project consists of an Ensemble of three buildings: a 50-Meter-high bar building, at the upper and lower end in each case a 100 meters and a 60 Meter high tower to dock. David Chipperfield explained that last Friday together with his young Team the concept.

So, the passage should look to the Park when it comes to the Team from Chipperfield.

(photo: visualization: Chipperfield)

Key aspects for him in the new passage from the metro station on the Richard-Strauss-Straße to the Park, the Denninger Angers, the design of the outdoor facilities with two attractive places on the Ensemble and the special Situation of the jobs, which can be very flexible, and are exposed from two sides. Shaded courtyards. In spite of the large dimensions, the Ensemble wants to appear transparent and open. The filigree façade to reinforce this impression.

A special feature is that the complex is formed as a wood-Hybridbau. That is, the Support not only from concrete but also partly of wood. Floor plans may be designed to allow “maximum flexibility, and is permeable for the light of day”. Wood for a good indoor climate. Finally, a special optical experience is apparent, because the construction of wood and concrete will remain bare.

If the jury had arrived, these ideas are very good. It was praised that the proposal only requires three buildings that exploit the land optimally. A clean, unspectacular concept is the view of the jury, with a simple, perfectly functioning basic shapes and a compelling design crack. All that leave a long-term use and durability of the office complex to be expected.

“We want to realize this design,” said Daniel Just, Chairman of the management Board of Bayerische versorgungskammer. The first prize was convincingly clear, he will seal up the property completely and make an elegant urban character. It was a significant finding: Although the Details of the Chipperfield-concept should be revised, but the second – and third-placed participants of the contest are out of the race.

according to reports the jury discussed about the second place. Hadi Teherani Architects in Hamburg with Bruun and the müllers the garden – and landscape architecture surprised with a steep upward projecting, pyramid, or crystal-like Structure with a cross-shaped ground plan and an eye-catching façade design. The “dominant and extroverted appearance,” according to the Jury, an “exciting contribution”. He’ll meet however, not exactly the Corporate Identity of the Bayerische versorgungskammer. Doubt, the price was expressed by the court, whether the concept is technically feasible. In addition, the façade design is expensive and time-consuming, what blow the budget.

The second place, the design of Hadi Teherani made.

(photo: visualization: Teherani)

Also, Steidle architects Munich, the architects with Grabner Huber Lipp landscape had occupied the third place, were not able to convince with their three solitary buildings. The spaces between the towers were the Jury to closely, there was also criticism of the System of the paths between the high-rise buildings.

Steidle Architekten occupied the third place.

(photo: visualization: Steidle)

The IUC is not as vain self-promoter, stressed Just: “We are understated.” As the largest public sector pension Fund group in Germany, the BVK carries on the business of twelve professional and municipal pension funds. Sustainability games at the time of investment a Central role. Also, for the new Headquarters of this principle. “We want to make use of this complex in the next decades for us,” said Just.

in 2016, had purchased the IUC, the 20 000-square metre plot of land at the Richard-Strauss-Straße Siemens. Strabag Real Estate has been tasked with the development of the project. All of the supply plants, which are distributed on three houses in the Arabella Park, are expected to be used by 2024 at the headquarters. It is planned to have a roof garden on the disk house and catering for all on the top floor of the building.

The decision for the Chipperfield design. Yet so well-designed, sustainable, and elegant as it may be – is it really, to shape the Silhouette with a out of the ordinary occurs? On the sidelines of the presentation that was an issue. There is also Regret with that spectacular new editions of a BMW – or Hypo-high-rise building have to wait.