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Transferzentrum Adaptronik TZA Fraunhofer-Institut LBF, Darmstadt

New Building, Institutes

Owner: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V., München
Architect: JSWD Architekten, Köln

Performance: Structural Design, Heat Insulation
Work Phases: 1-6
Total Area: 2.300 m²

Completion: 2010

The TZA Transferzentrum Adaptronik (also KAAMA Kompetenzzentrum Adaptronik im Automobil-, Maschinen- und Anlagenbau) is a new type of research buildings. Offices, laboratorys and testing facilities as well as exhibition and instruction areas form individual sections but are connected spacially and form an functional entity. The building is divided into three areas of use that blend into each other.

The primary supporting structure is formed by reinforced concrete floors, pillars and shear walls. The outside walls are designed as supporting shear wall facades. Particularily challenging was the integration of the testing facility for trucks and the showroom at ground level. In order to realize this the widespan waffle-slab ceiling was developed in cooperation with the architects that is both supporting structure and visible design element. The ceiling is a grillage of concrete reinforced with untensioned bars.

The rainscreen cladding is made of irregularly perforated brass slabs that provide the building with complexity of design and spatial depth.

Transferzentrum Adaptronik TZA, Fraunhofer-Institut LBF, (photo Felix Krumbholz)

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Pattern (JSWD Architekten)

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Transferzentrum Adaptronik TZA, Fraunhofer-Institut LBF, (photo Felix Krumbholz)

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Transferzentrum Adaptronik TZA, Fraunhofer-Institut LBF, (photo Felix Krumbholz)

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Transferzentrum Adaptronik TZA, Fraunhofer-Institut LBF, (photo Felix Krumbholz)

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