High-rise buildings made of wood

The BauWerke / WIEHAG duo combines a high level of technical expertise, a passion for timber construction, and forward-looking, sustainable architecture. The result was the prototype of a 7-story building that can be erected as a product of equally high quality and cost-efficiency for a variety of uses in an individual design and layout.

Design, functional, technical, economic and building physics factors were intensively coordinated between the teams. This concerned, among other things, the floor plan layout with its high flexibility and variability, both in planning, in use and in subsequent use (third party use), the choice of storage masses, the dimensional, load-bearing and construction system, the production methods through to construction logistics.

The prototype, which was designed once as a residential building and once as an office building, shows that the many advantages of timber construction can be fully exploited with professional interaction between design, planning and production, without having to compromise on economy, functionality or comfort.

TRADITION MEETS FUTURE VISION

In the heart of Neu-Anspach near Frankfurt am Main, on a hill, the Hochtaunus-Stift is located, one of the longest-serving old people’s and nursing homes in the district. Where tradition is preserved, there is also room for new, modern concepts. The property of the Hochtaunussift is now being sustainably revitalized. For this purpose, BauWerke was commissioned to prepare a feasibility study for the development with a gross floor area of ​​approx. 9,000 square meters. The concept is based on a sustainable mixed use of inpatient care, day care, assisted living and other supplementary uses.

A NEW HOME FOR LIFE HELP

Since it’s foundation over 60 years ago, Lebenshilfe Berlin has represented the interests of people with disabilities and thus provides important impetus for an inclusive society in Germany. With the expansion of the associathttps://www.lebenshilfe-berlin.de/de/index.phpion, a new office and event building is to be built in Berlin-Wedding. BauWerke takes on the design and implementation planning of this new building with a gross floor area of ​​approx. 6,200 square meters. Completion of the building is scheduled for the end of 2023.

BauWerke-Excellence-Award 2021: We are back!

BauWerke has been a member of the Fördergemeinschaft Bauwesen e.V. since the beginning of 2019 and launched the BauWerke Excellence Award. Due to the pandemic, the award ceremony in 2020 had to be suspended. Now things are finally going on this year – currently still in the application phase. As part of the Berlin Builders’ Day, the prize will be awarded by Faculty IV of the Beuth University on July 13th. Graduates of the bachelor’s degree are awarded for their final theses that stand out due to their particular design quality, technical and constructive work-through, representation and presentation.

Better Together

BauWerke and WIEHAG Holding have entered into a pioneering innovation partnership. As one of the world’s leading companies in the field of sophisticated structural timber construction, the Austrian group stands for climate-friendly project implementation. WIEHAG Holding supplies the construction for the world’s tallest wooden building in Milwaukee, USA as well as the largest wooden building in Asia (NTU, Singapore). Outstanding projects have been implemented worldwide with important architects (including Sir Norman Foster, Kengo Kuma). The common goal is to create a synergy between the design and planning competence (BauWerke) and the technical competence in demanding timber construction (WIEHAG). The cooperation works on cmbining form and function and thus to redefine the limits of what is feasible in the industry.

The Spirit of Berlin

AAGIN starts operations

The listed industrial building located at Aroser Allee was built in 1908. It enchants with its historical charm. This is where the idea for AAGIN was born – a unique GIN composition that reflects the charismatic location of its foundation and history as a homage to the splendid Berlin Belle Époque in its internal and external aesthetics. AAGIN was honored with the Meininger’s International Spirits Award as a high-quality distillate. BauWerke is responsible for planning the integration of gin production into the historic industrial building.

OLD BECOMES NEW

BauWerke was commissioned with the renovation of the area at Lake Bogensee in accordance with the listed building standards. The extraordinary building ensemble in the style of socialist classicism consists of a plenary hall building, a culture house and four bed houses. It was created in the early 1950s. The historic buildings on the site are currently being refurbished in accordance with historical monuments, and new usage concepts are being developed.

We move Berlin

The depot Britz-Süd of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe recently inaugurated its new washrooms. The room design interprets the corporate identity in terms of color and shape. BauWerke has been involved in the renovation and redesign of the BVG depots, which are largely listed, at several locations while operations have continued since 2015.