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Science Park Linz, Building 2

This is a project by Caramel architekten and it is located at Linz, Austria. Project's program: Educational building. There are seventeen images for Science Park Linz, Building 2.

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Project details

Project name: Science Park Linz, Building 2
Location: Linz, Austria
Program: Educational building
Year: Completion: 2011
Project by: Caramel architekten

Project images

Designer's statement

Communication comes first.

This means establishing ties with the existing university campus, the adjacent residential buildings, and the natural surroundings and allowing a rapport between each of the new buildings as well as within the building units themselves. In a seemingly playful way the buildings interact both in plan and section with their surroundings and the adjacent residential buildings via height differences and bends and in this way avoid an inflexible building structure. By crouching into the slope and having the entrance area beneath the street level, they establish a ground-floor link to the existing university campus.

The landscape flows into the grounds — between, over, and through the structures with their partially hovering office wings — and merges with the buildings, forming a new interpretation of the campus.

The spacious interior atria tie the floors together and allow light to flood this space all the way down to the lower floors, in this way inspiring a new science-work climate of communication.

Due to the large spans and the partially necessary bridge constructions or the resulting deflections, the parapets are not arranged randomly; instead, the largest ones have been placed to precisely coincide with the points of greatest deflection. in this way the outward impression is diversified, while the interior is marked by heightened individuality, thus creating an interplay that is enhanced by the use of lamellae of varying thicknesses which have been set at various intervals.

Ultimately, even the individual elements of the façade communicate with each other…