Five Boats
The Five Boats is an office building in the inner harbor of Duisburg directly at the Buckelbrücke and the Hitachi Power Office .
The seven-storey office building, completed in 2004, was designed by the star designer Sir Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners from London, the detailed planning comes from the German architecture firm Bahl und Partner, the project management was carried out by Kölbl Kruse GmbH , the construction was carried out by Bilfinger Berger AG, the construction costs amounted to 50 million Euro. The requirement was to enable as many offices as possible to be connected to the water. Due to the oval shape of the five individual hulls and the fanning out next to each other, almost all offices have a view of the inner harbor or the inner city of Duisburg. The 35 office floors are all identically designed and built in a modular manner, so that they can be used very flexibly. The technical and utility rooms are located in the rear, only six-storey transverse wing. The total office space is 22,000 m². The tenant is the company health insurance fund Novitas BKK.
Retail shops and restaurants are housed on 1,500 m² on the ground floor. There are 175 underground parking spaces in the basement.
At night, the four rear transverse wings are illuminated in different colors using LED technology and illuminate the corrugated aluminum surfaces of the hull. The total of 660 m² of lighting was divided into twenty fields per connecting wing, the color gradients or lighting moods of which can be freely programmed. The lighting concept was developed by spectral Gesellschaft für Lichttechnik mbH.
Web links
- Online picture archive Inner Harbor Duisburg by Friedhelm Krischer: Experience structural change
- Light scene description on the inner harbor portal
- Five Boats at Architekten24
- Kölbl Kruse GmbH
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '23.4 " N , 6 ° 45' 50.7" E