LZM - Lehrzentrum Maschinenbau, Darmstadt

New Building, Institutes

Owner: Technische Universität Darmstadt, vertreten durch das Dezernat V – Bau und Immobilien
Architect: kister scheithauer gross architekten und stadtplaner, Köln

Performance: Structural Design, Facade Design
Work Phases: 1-6
Total Area: 4.000 m²

Completion: 2017

The Technische Universität Darmstadt has erected a new instruction center for engineering (LZM). Altogether four institutes are housed in the building
1. Produktentwicklung und Maschinenelemente
2. Strukturdynamik
3. Institut für Mechatronische Systeme im Maschinenbau
4. Datenverarbeitung in der Konstruktion

The three-storey building has a floor area of 83 x 22 m and is built without an underground floor. It is divided into two parts, the machine rooms with 5 or 9 m high ceilings and the upper floors with workshops and computer workstations.

The building was designed as a massive construction. Floors, roof, walls, pillars and base plates were planned in reinforced concrete. It is founded with an elastically embedded base plate. The rotor test room that serves as protection is decoupled from the base plate.