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Entwurf • Design Störmer, Murphy and Partners
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Floor plan ground floor
Grundriss 3. Obergeschoss • Floor plan 3rd floor
Bauherr • Client Quantum Immmobilien, Hamburg
Standort • Location Friedensallee 11, Hamburg
Bruttogeschossfläche • Gross Floor Area 13.400 m 2
Fotos • Photos Carsten Brügmann, Hamburg
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 192
ZEISEHOF
IN HAMBURG-OTTENSEN
With the Zeiserhof in Hamburg-Ottensen, Störmer
Murphy and Partners not only succeeded in putting twel-
ve branches of the British media company under one roof
– the ensemble of the former ship propeller foundry has
also been completed again at last. The unpretentious
new six-storey building has 2,000 square metres of office
area around a central atrium, the “common space”.
T hings are happening in Ottensen: Only in March, a supermarket
opened in the former Zeisehallen (see AIT 9.2018); just one year
before this, the Hamburg architects Störmer Murphy and Partners had
developed a war-induced wasteland next to the historic halls on the cor-
ner of Behringstrasse and Friedensallee. This is where the ship propellers
of the Zeise company used to be cast. The place has its very own, urban
atmosphere due to the various opposites and its history as a significant
industrial location in North Germany. The architects responded to this
with a building whose design is modest and carefully blends into the
lively context without, however, fading into the background but quite
naturally taking its place with powerful calmness and straight elegance.
The clear architectural vocabulary consisting of a selection of timeless,
unpretentious materials – concrete and water-struck brick – and a har-
moniously structured façade design strongly relates to the history of the
place and interprets the factory architecture of the adjoining Zeisehallen
in its very own and modern way. The heart of the building is the central
atrium which is covered by a ceiling of foil cushions on a curved con-
struction of wooden trusses. In this “common space”, the idea of com-
munications requested by the building clients and the users comes to
life – creative minds from various sectors are here to network and form
synergies. A cubic sculpture placed into the space contains the reception,
is a meeting point, a prestigious piece of furniture and a communicati-
ons hub all in one. On each of the upper floors, the new six-storey buil-
ding offers approximately 2,000 square metres of open, flexible office
space with natural lighting, a good indoor climate and pleasant acou-
stics – thanks to the careful selection of the materials. The levels are
accessed via four circulation cores as well as on walkways surrounding
the atrium which interconnect the office units. Here contacts are possible
and welcome but not enforced. The design of the railings and the eleva-
tor shafts subtly refers to the history of the place: The dynamics and the
movement remind of the ship propellers which used to be manufactured
here in former times. The circle is completed.
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