Brooktorkai / Ericus
Brooktorkai / Ericus is the name of a part of the HafenCity district in Hamburg that is primarily designed as an office location close to the city center. It is the smallest in terms of area and so far the only sub-district that has been predominantly monostructured in its use.
The construction work on the western part of the quarter was largely completed in early 2010. The eastern part, on the Ericusspitze , was completed in March 2011 and completed the quarter. The Ericusspitze and the bastion of the same name on it were part of the Hamburg ramparts until they were razed at the beginning of the 19th century . In addition to the parts on the western edge of the city center that are now horticultural, the Ericusspitze and the surrounding Ericusgraben are the only place where the course of the city fortifications can be clearly traced.
location
The quarter borders the Speicherstadt in the north, the Oberhafen in the east, the Brooktorhafen in the south and the quarters Am Lohsepark , which is connected by the Ericusbrücke , and Elbtorquartier furthermore in the west with the Magdeburger Hafen and Überseequartier .
It has a relatively central location both within the existing Hamburg city center and within HafenCity; the main station , the Deichtorhallen , the Kontorhausviertel and the main shopping streets Mönckebergstrasse and Spitaler Strasse are within walking distance, as is the Überseequartier as a central part of HafenCity.
The development of traffic is favorable for both public transport (ÖV) and motorized individual traffic (MIT); In addition to the main train station, the Meßberg underground station is just a few minutes away from the quarter, the Brooktorkai is connected to Willy-Brandt-Strasse (formerly Ost-West-Strasse ; main crossing of the city center).
use
The structure of use is mainly characterized by office uses, which take up the majority of the total of 102,000 m² of gross floor area (GFA). The quarter also has 30 residential units. Older plans included a four-star hotel with 144 rooms in the east of Brooktorkai , the realization of which ultimately failed due to the lack of a suitable investor.
Two of the main users of the quarter, the classification society Germanischer Lloyd , which is headquartered in early 2010 to the Brooktorkai realigned and around 42,000 existing here 52,000 m² GFA uses, and the mirror group , the end of their editorial offices in the 2011 Spiegel building Ericusspitze contracted Has. The former headquarters of the companies were not far from the new headquarters; the headquarters of Germanischer Lloyd was on the Vorsetzen road near the landing bridges , the Spiegel headquarters within sight of the new location on Willy-Brandt-Strasse .
Architecture and urban planning
Urban planning concept
The development of the quarter is divided into two parts; the larger western part between Brooktorkai Street and Brooktorhafen is occupied by a seven-story, meandering building structure made of red brick, which runs parallel to the Brooktorhafen basin . The meandering structure is loosened up and pointed by three eleven-storey point buildings. The smaller eastern part on the Ericusspitze , the historical location of the Ericus bastion , which was part of the Hamburger Wallanlagen , is occupied by two trapezoidal 13- and 10-storey buildings with glass facades.
architecture
Due to its location on one of the main entrances to HafenCity and its close proximity to the Pfeilerbahn ( Hanover – Hamburg railway line and all other connections in the south), the district has the task of formulating an entrance situation for both the district and Hamburg as a whole. The prominent architecture, especially on the Ericusspitze, takes this claim into account.
The design of the Spiegel building and the Ericus Contor correspond to the Elbphilharmonie in the west of HafenCity ; Both buildings consist of a brick base or a clinker-clad base, above which a dominant glass structure rises. Another reference can be drawn to the Deichtorcenter , located directly opposite the Ericusspitze , which shares the cubature and facade materials with the Spiegel building. The original design provided for the north-eastern glass front facing the city center to be laid out as a kind of recordable media wall on which news could be displayed, for example. Due to the costs, the client finally waived this detail.
The environment responsible for the architecture of the western part of the quarter is - as is the case with many of the buildings in HafenCity - the neighboring Speicherstadt, the color of which is evoked by the red brick facings . In order to additionally support the creative unity within the quarter, all architects were obliged to use the same type of brick. The main differences in the design are the structure of the facade. The ensemble is also loosened up by the three individually designed point houses; the western point house has a cube forum and opens exclusively to the south with a vertical, vertical window wall, the other sides of the building are designed with pre-patinated copper panels. The central point house has horizontal ribbon windows, the monotony of which is rhythmically relaxed by a second facade level made of turquoise perforated sheet metal. The eastern point house has a facade made of light gray natural stone, which is horizontally structured by rhythmically distributed window openings.
Public space
The public open spaces in the quarter were designed by the Hamburg office of WES & Partner Landschaftsarchitekten , who were previously involved in the redesign of the Jungfernstieg , among other things . On the south side of the quarter, a promenade with restaurants and shops runs along the Brooktorhafen and connects the individual building sites on the water side. Construction work on the promenade began in early 2010. The buildings on the Ericusspitze will be connected to one another by a publicly accessible square, which will also be used for public use.
history
Origin of the Ericusspitze
The Ericusspitze was created with the construction of the Hamburg ramparts between 1616 and 1625, the bastion of the same name located here was one of the 22 defensive points of the city wall. After the facilities were razed at the beginning of the 19th century, a new waterway breakthrough between Wallgraben and Magdeburg harbor , the so-called Sülze , was created in 1839 , creating a shortened route within the harbor . The Ericusspitze thus became an island. In the development from 1860, the place gained further importance when a new railway bridge - the large wall frame bridge - was built over the Oberhafen and a new passage to the strongly narrowed Sülze for the siding between Deichtor and Theerhof . In 1872 the connection to the existing railway network south of the Elbe followed and with it the construction of a combined road and railway bridge as a fulcrum over the then New North Canal , today's Ericusgraben . This bridge still exists today as the Ericus Bridge .
Construction of the warehouse district
With the construction of the Speicherstadt from 1881 and after the customs connection in 1888, the bank was edged with quay walls for the necessary deepening of the water. The Sülzedüberfahrt was closed and a new street in north-south direction, the Poggenmühle , was built over. The Poggenmühlenbrücke and the new Theerhofbrücke were built, the route of the railway line was changed and the Gross Ericusbrücke was dismantled. In 1907 the quay walls were raised to the level of the new bridges.
The construction of an outer street between 1908 and 1909 was intended to serve as an extension of the Speicherstadt, with the new Y, Z1 and Z2 warehouses to form the eastern end. However, these projects were never realized and finally abandoned with the decline in port handling towards the end of the 1930s.
The Ericusspitze was one of the few parts of the Port of Hamburg that was not affected by war damage. It could be used by the British allies for several years after the war. In the southern part, a coal, heating oil and fertilizer warehouse was built, which was in operation until the 1970s. The new construction of the Oberbaum Bridge in 1960, at the level of the former Gross Ericus Bridge , made the Theerhof Bridge unnecessary, so it was dismantled.
In 2000 the Ericusspitze area was included in the HafenCity master plan by a resolution of the Senate. However, the area was still used by the customs authorities until the customs border was abolished in 2003.
HafenCity
At the beginning of 2005, the four building plots at Brooktorkai were given to Germanischer Lloyd , who is also one of the main users of the quarter, and the Hamburg-based Quantum Immobilien AG, the real estate developer, for planning. In the summer of the same year, Quantum launched an urban planning competition for the building area, in which the design by the Hamburg office gmp was awarded. The design of the individual architectural designs followed. The design of the eastern construction field comes from the Milan office of Antonio Citterio and Partners , the buildings on the middle construction field from the Hamburg office of Jan Störmer Architects . The new headquarters of Germanischer Lloyd on the two western building plots was designed by gmp .
Construction was initially scheduled to start in summer 2006, so that the new buildings could have been occupied in 2007. After several delays, among other things due to a flooding of the construction pit, the ensemble was completed in early 2010.
In 2006, the Spiegel Group announced that it would be consolidating its Hamburg editorial offices in a new building on the Ericusspitze . In 2007, the design by the Copenhagen office of Henning Larsen Architects for the new Spiegel building and the neighboring Ericus Contors won an international competition. The foundation stone for the building was laid in May 2008, and the building was occupied in 2011.
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Brooktorkai / Ericus. Perfectly positioned: office location on the Speicherstadt. (PDF; 9.9 MB) In: Projects. Insights into current developments No. 12. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, October 2009, p. 18f , accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Brooktorkai / Ericu: Company location in the Speicherstadt. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Departure to new shores. (PDF; 731 kB) (No longer available online.) In: HafenCity News No. 3. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, June 2005, p. 2 , archived from the original on June 1, 2012 ; Retrieved April 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Counterpart to the Elbphilharmonie in the center. (PDF; 1.4 MB) (No longer available online.) In: HafenCity News No. 17. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, September 2009, p. 4f , archived from the original on January 9, 2012 ; Retrieved April 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Top place for Spiegel group. (PDF; 2.5 MB) In: HafenCity News No. 13. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, September 2008, p. 3 , accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Three styles, one structure. (PDF; 2.0 MB) In: HafenCity News No. 15. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, March 2009, p. 4f , accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Information on the location and inventory. (PDF; 273 kB) In: Explanation of the HafenCity development plan, 8th Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, September 2009, p. 5ff , accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ New office and hotel location. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: HafenCity News No. 4. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, November 2005, p. 4 , accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Top position for the Spiegel Group. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: HafenCity News No. 7. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, October 2006, p. 1 , accessed on April 26, 2013 .
- ↑ HafenCity Hamburg GmbH (ed.): “Mirror opens a window to the city” In: HafenCity News No. 10, p. 3. Self-published, Hamburg 2007.
- ↑ HafenCity Hamburg GmbH (ed.): "Headquarters with waterfront location" In: HafenCity News No. 13, p. 3. Self-published, Hamburg 2008.
