ADAC headquarters

ADAC headquarters
	ADAC headquarters
Basic data
Place:	Sendling West Park
Construction time :	2006-2011
Opening:	March 22, 2012
Architects :	Sauerbruch Hutton
Use / legal
Usage :	office building
Jobs :	approx. 2400
Owner :	ADAC
Client :	ADAC
Technical specifications
Height :	93 m
Floors :	23
Floor area :	129,500 m²
Building-costs:	320 million euros
Height comparison
Munich :	7. ( list )
Germany :	101. ( list )
address
City:	Munich
Country:	Germany

The ADAC headquarters in Hansa 23-25 in Munich district Sendling-Westpark was in the years 2006 to 2011 after a design of the Berlin architectural firm Sauerbruch Hutton built. The move into the city’s seventh-highest skyscraper at 93 meters took place in December 2011 and opened on March 22, 2012.

competition

As early as 2001, the ADAC decided to build its new headquarters in Munich. In 2003, the President of the ADAC Peter Meyer presented an initial plan , which resulted in the invitation to tender for a limited implementation competition to which nine architects' offices were invited. The jury included the architects Stephan Braunfels , Jörg Homeier, Ulrike Lauber , Karl-Heinz Petzinka , Albert Speer and Hadi Teherani , who selected five of the submitted designs, from which the winner was chosen on March 23, 2004. In addition to the first prize for the design by Sauerbruch Hutton, two third prizes went to the Munich offices of Goetz and Hootz and Allmann Sattler Wappner . The competition designs by Schleburg from Rosenheim and Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner from Düsseldorf were purchased. The planning provided that the headquarters would be ready for occupancy by 2008 at the latest.

planning

After the ADAC commissioned Sauerbruch Hutton with the design services in May 2005 - as part of a general planning team led by a third party - the ADAC separated from the general planning team in November of the same year and Sauerbruch Hutton took over its task. The drafts could be completed by September 2006, and in May 2007 the general contractor tender was finally completed. The approaches in connection with the incoming offers resulted in a cost overrun compared to the original approaches, as a result of which the ADAC again changed the project management. The resulting tensions between ADAC and the general planning team ultimately led to Sauerbruch Hutton's contract being dissolved in September 2009. At this point in time, according to his own statement, 90% of the planning had been drawn up and was subsequently largely implemented in this form. The construction costs had risen from the originally planned 230 to around 320 million euros.

Construction work and description

The property is located in the immediate vicinity of Garmischer Strasse, part of the Mittlerer Ring and the combined U- and S-Bahn station Heimeranplatz . In the front part of the property is the listed Sander Villa , a commercial building from 1909. The rear is bounded by the Munich – Holzkirchen railway line .

Construction began in 2006 and consists of two main sections. A five- storey base, which, in the form of an amoeba and characterized by its rounded edges, marks the outer floor plan and on top of it another 18 high-rise storeys . In contrast to the more discreetly designed facade of the base, the high-rise building was based on an effective design of the 30,000 square meter glass facade. The total of 22 different colors of the 1,152 facade elements develop their play of colors like a mosaic. The colors are mainly chosen based on the brand color of the builder. In addition to the individual and open-plan offices, the entire complex includes a visitor and conference center, a casino, a printing shop, meeting rooms with video conference equipment and a television studio. A three-storey underground car park forms the substructure .

At the beginning of the assumption that the completion was ready for occupancy in the years 2006 or 2007, the cost increases and further discussions on planning (on possible deficiencies in the statics) led to stoppages on the construction site in the summer of 2008 and in the course of 2009 a postponement of the transfer of use finally to summer 2011, to November 2011 and finally to the following December. The opening followed in March 2012. The previous ADAC headquarters at Westpark had already been sold in 2009.

The historic Sander villa on the property was renovated by the ADAC and largely restored the original facade. Today it is used by the association's library and archive and as a conference room.

Litigation

A legal dispute has been pending at the Munich Regional Court since December 2010 to assess the termination of the contract on the part of Sauerbruch Hutton or the differences of opinion that preceded it .