Futurium
The Futurium is a project initiative of scientific institutions and networks of several commercial enterprises and foundations as well as the German Federal Government in Berlin , which serves as a “place for presentation and dialogue on science, research and development”. The building opened on September 5, 2019 with a ceremony. It is a museum, stage and forum for open questions about the future.
The exhibition building is located on Alexanderufer and was designed with a usable area of around 8154 m² on three floors, of which 2600 m² are available for permanent exhibitions and 600 m² in the basement for special exhibitions. Stefan Brandt has been the director of the facility since June 1, 2017 .
Location and carrier
The building has the address Alexanderufer 2 and has the south entrance from Kapelle-Ufer and the north entrance from Margarete-Steffin-Straße 15, where the technology access is also to the northeast. The Futurium is located on a plot of land between the Spree , an office building on Alexanderufer, a viaduct of the Stadtbahn and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research bordering to the east . On the trapezoidal property, an (irregular) pentagon was chosen as the floor plan ( location and shape ).
The Futurium is located on the Spreebogen, centrally between the main train station (north-south and light rail crossing station) and the Reichstag building . The building is in the middle part of the district of the same name . The Charité site is located to the northeast across the railway line . The property covers 6700 m² and the built-up building area is 4000 m², the usable area for the facility on three floors is named with 3200 m².
The public area of the building is open to everyone from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Thursdays until 8 p.m.); the building is closed on Tuesday Entry is free for visitors.
The sponsor is the non-profit organization Futurium gGmbH , which was initially founded on July 15, 2014 as Haus der Zukunft gGmbH . Its task as a non-profit organization is to operate this “place for presentation and dialogue on scientific, technical and social developments of national and international importance”. The Futurium is thus declared as "an independent platform for dialogue and networking between the state, science, business and society".
Concept and structure
The concept of the founding director Reinhold Leinfelder was influenced by the discussion about the naming of a new geochronological earthly epoch, the Anthropocene . This covers the period in which humans have become one of the most important factors influencing biological, geological and atmospheric processes on earth. The concept says: Everything is related to everything - people, technology and nature have to be considered together. There is not just one future, but different “futures”. It is important to be able to imagine many things better and, if possible, try them out, which is intended to make one aware that the future can be shaped and not influenced. Knowledge should be generated and negotiated about what a desirable future might look like and how it should be designed.
In a central “liquid”, constantly renewing exhibition, current social issues are made visible on various future paths. In the event area of the house, discussions between science, politics, business and civil society - i.e. citizens - will take place using different participatory methods. In the real laboratory in the basement of the house, innovative technologies, processes and methods are to be specifically tested and critically examined by visitors.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is the leading partner in the House of the Future. In addition, the science organizations Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech, the Fraunhofer Society , the Helmholtz Association , the Max Planck Society and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community .
The economy is represented by BASF , Bayer , Boehringer Ingelheim , Siemens and Infineon as well as the Deutsche Telekom Foundation . The group of shareholders is open and further shareholders are accepted if interested. The shareholders' meeting appoints the supervisory board, in which the federal government, science, industry and foundations are represented. The supervisory board appoints and monitors the management. The management consists of the director, the scientific director, and a commercial director. At the suggestion of the supervisory board, the shareholders' meeting elects the program council, which is made up of up to twelve scientists and communication experts from science and business and provides technical advice to the bodies, in particular the director.
In the Futurium, possible scenarios for life in the future are developed in exhibitions and events and the possibilities offered by research and innovation are shown. At the same time, it is a forum for dialogue about the future, in which not only science, business and politics, but above all citizens can participate and should actively contribute. The annual budget is almost 19 million euros. There is a showroom for future designs and the curious can get active information on the hands-on course including the laboratory.
Architecture and construction
The building was created in a public-private partnership (PPP) in which the public sector and private companies worked together. The award procedure started with a Europe-wide award competition in April 2013. The subsequent international planning competition was won by a design by the Berlin architects Richter and Musikowski in collaboration with JUCA landscape architecture.
Construction began in March 2015 according to the KNX standard . The foundation stone was laid on June 15, 2015 by Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka . During the preparatory phase - purchase of a building plot, construction planning - the client changed the name to the internationally better understandable word Futurium . According to the newly chosen name, it is a five-sided structure made of concrete , glass and steel with a modern exterior on a [five] angular floor plan. The museum director praised the jury's decision for the future-oriented room concept, the Futurium should “be a place for visionary ideas from September [2019]. […] At the same time, it should be aesthetically distinctive and innovative and respond to the surroundings and the history of the place. ”Sustainable building materials were used as well as the consideration of barrier-free access and the involvement of residents. The building corresponds to the standard of a low-energy house. The energy concept envisages the use of regenerative energy in order to minimize the use of fossil fuels. Energy storage with the help of a paraffin latent heat storage is an essential part of the innovative concept. The shell of the house could be viewed on September 16, 2017. The keys to the Futurium were handed over on September 13, 2017. The interior design and exhibition presentations were then carried out by late summer 2019.
The “Denk” building was financed by the shareholders for 58 million euros according to the plans of the Berlin architects Richter-Musikowski. On behalf of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks, the “Partnership Germany” for the new construction of the Futurium was commissioned in November 2014 with planning, construction and operation for 30 years.
The construction was criticized with delays in execution. It was noted that the house was not built to be energy self-sufficient and certainly not a plus-energy house . Further points are a lack of bicycle parking spaces, elements made of energy-intensive materials such as reinforced concrete, steel and high-performance glass instead of green facades or wood as a building material are criticized. This is countered by the fact that it is owed to the specifications of the client from the federal government and the many involved sponsors from the industry, to whom every experiment apparently appeared to be an “unacceptable risk”.
The architects' office designed “a striking object that asserts itself above all between all the surrounding administrative buildings. [...] a multi-storey building with butterfly-shaped cantilevering wings is planned [...] to be used by artists, as well as the transparent façade made of cast glass, which one wants to print with ceramic, but also to stage with light. "The Futurium" fulfills as a holistic economic, Socio-culturally and ecologically optimized building the BNB Gold Standard - with the highest number of points ever achieved in BNB certification ”.
free space
There are two forecourts at the two entrances, the north entrance from Alexander-Ufer / Margarete-Steffin-Straße and the south entrance from Kapelle-Ufer. These are spanned by canopies protruding up to 18 m . This public place of residence is covered by a dense pattern of dots and they can be used for additional activities. For this purpose, “seating, passageways, but also quiet areas” are described and on the north side there are rows of trees in the event area of the passage to the Charité on Alexanderufer.
A kinetic sculpture stands on the southern forecourt : “Torque”. A rotating “plate” (4 m × 15 m) is dynamically balanced on a rod. The artwork will be seen in motion for an hour every lunchtime. In 2016, the Berlin artist group “ realities: united ” won the open “Art in Architecture” competition. The technical implementation was taken over by Max Streicher GmbH & Co. KG aA.
There was criticism here: while the square towards the Spree fulfills its purpose, "it makes little sense towards the tram route, because little visitor traffic is expected there". The two green main routes in Berlin , the Heiligenseer Weg and the Tiergartenring, lead directly past the Futurium.
Facade and foyer
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Two floor-to-ceiling shop windows offer views from the building "which opens up to the river". Access to the Charité attracts "the several thousand people who rush past the new building of the future on the S-Bahn" every day. If necessary, these windows can be used as projection surfaces on the forecourt.
The facade is a shell made of cast glass in more than 8000 cassette elements. These are each one square meter in size and made of folded metal reflectors and ceramic-printed cast glass. In this way, a cloud image that constantly changes with the incidence of light is reproduced. This element stands for constant change, as does an installation in the stairwell in the form of a floating spiral that welcomes the visitor. Two glass surfaces offer views as “spaces for thinking in the context of the contemporary urban space”. To the south 8 m × 28 m, to the north 11 m × 8 m.
The foyer on the ground floor connects the main entrances and is a central place for gathering and exchanging information.
Indoor
A bottom seal was carried out below the floor slab, so the basement floors are in a water-impermeable reinforced concrete structure, a “ white tub ”.
In the basement, future research can be experienced for visitors in the “Futurium Lab” on 600 m². The six-meter-high room with dark-colored exposed concrete and black mastic asphalt floor is below the Spree level. The area is illuminated by 126 fluorescent screens in the ceiling grid. Several experiments are offered, from artificial intelligence to building with wood . In the installation Smile To Vote by the artist Alexander Peterhaensel, one enters a voting booth "in which the voting decision is apparently 'predicted' by facial recognition and artificial intelligence (AI)." The project "drives out IT-based facial recognition, which is increasingly being used the top. ”The sculpture Noosphere stands for bio-design and is a complex structure that reacts and seems to communicate. This walk-in installation was created by Philip Beesley, which reacts to visitors with vibrations, sounds and light.
On the ground floor there are: cloakroom, toilets, central information, restaurants and a shop. The barrier-free event rooms Forum I, II and III are also located here. These can be offered with mobile partition walls in rooms between 50 m² and 670 m² with daylight, bright, acoustically active surfaces and extendable projection media.
The exhibition area on the upper floor can be reached via the central staircase or the visitor elevator. The permanent exhibition offers three spaces for thinking: people, nature and technology. Visitors can hang out in a large swing for reflection. In some cases , the guest can get very detailed information about technical developments, about possible benefits of robots and artificial intelligence, but also about questions of sustainability and resource conservation. A huge wooden sculpture shows the interplay of nature and technology. Mushrooms as a new building material or flying wind turbines at a height of 300 meters to generate energy - a topic in laboratories and institutes around the world. Galleries are suspended from the roof structure without any supports and, thanks to their elevated position and the glazing on the sides, offer views of the exhibition and the “outside spaces”.
The roof
Above the exhibition floor, the stairs lead to an exit to the roof. The publicly accessible tour known as Skywalk is reached from this exit via a connection. On this fourth level (−1, 0, 1, 2), the roof area rising to the north, views of the "Berlin city horizon from the Reichstag dome [to the south] to the television tower [to the north]" are possible along the parapet. Because of the lower height, the view is limited to the east and west of the two neighboring buildings. Safety instructions on the roof stipulate that the meter-wide parapet must not be climbed.
Between the circular path on the parapet and the connecting cross path, the roof area is covered with solar energy collectors for photovoltaics for electricity generation and with four rows of solar thermal pipes for heat generation. The regenerative energy of the sun can (according to own information) cover large parts of the energy demand for the house. For this purpose, the hybrid energy storage system was built, in which, with encapsulated paraffin and the storage medium water, eight times the capacity of conventional water storage systems is achieved.
The use of the funnel-shaped roof shell is less obvious . Rainwater can collect in a collecting basin under collectors and walkways and is fed into a cistern at the lowest point . The cooling system is located next to the visitor exit, as the collected precipitation is used to cool the building.
Web links
- futurium.de project website
- The house of the future will be called Futurium in future.
- Reinhold Leinfelder: The House of the Future (Berlin) as a place of participation. SciLogs (blog portal of the Spektrum der Wissenschaft publishing company ), October 5, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Passauer Neue Presse: A museum for the future: Futurium opens in Berlin. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Opening of the Futurium - September 5th to 8th, 2019 : “On September 5th, 2019 the Futurium will officially open its doors. The opening ceremony will take place with Chancellor Angela Merkel and invited guests. "
- ↑ Berlin "Futurium": Museum, stage, forum for open questions
- ↑ see: project data
- ^ House of the Future: Architecture
- ↑ Press releases on the Futurium.
- ↑ The surrounding property, which was previously located in the border strip of the Berlin Wall, was developed after 2010. The article Alexanderufer: Straße ins Nirgendwo . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 14, 2008. A development plan was decided in 1998 and the road was laid out for 1.75 million euros after the public participation in 2007.
- ↑ These areas to the west of the Charité were previously the location of the Berlin Wall with Günter Litfin, the first victim of the Wall .
- ↑ Design Offices Berlin Humboldthafen : The office building of PricewaterhouseCoopers , Spiegel-Verlag and others on a total of 5500 m² (120 m long and 25 m high), with the addresses Kapelle-Ufer 4/5, is located directly on the canal (shipping canal) to Humboldt-Hafen , also provided at Alexanderstraße 1, 3/5, 6/7, has been built since 2012 and completed in 2015. Also: Dirk Jericho: Office palace right on the harbor . In: Berliner Woche , June 18, 2015.
- ^ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Futurium
- ↑ Tickets : “Admission is free. For workshops, guided tours and events, discounts apply to schoolchildren, people in training, recipients of transfer payments, holders of the Berlin Pass, federal volunteers, students and people with severe disabilities (50 percent or more). Accompanying persons pay nothing. "
- ↑ site futurium.de
- ↑ the Futurium gGmbH with a description of the expansion and structure
- ↑ Future Museum Futurium opens
- ↑ Website judge Musikowski to Futurium : "We are pleased with the material price 2019 FUTURIUM, which was presented on 26 June 2019 in Stuttgart Hospitalhof us."
- ↑ Futurium Berlin - JUCA. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Jung building technology : With the KNX system, all building technology functions are networked and communicate with each other.
- ↑ The house of the future is called "Futurium" : "The term also allows people who do not speak German to see what this house is about, namely the future, according to Wanka."
- ↑ Ralf Nestler: An expensive block of the future . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 27, 2019
- ↑ a b c Philip Aubreville: The glass 'Futurium' as the ideal place for everyone who wants to help shape the future . In: Berliner Zeitung , 27./28. April 2019, Supplement Real Estate Worlds .
- ↑ Current news about the Futurium; accessed in summer 2017.
- ^ Christoph Berger: The Futurium in Berlin .
- ↑ Judge Musikowski, architects PartGmbB, 10969 Berlin
- ↑ PD is organized under private law as a GmbH and is 100% in public hands. Futurium in Berlin
- ↑ Ulf Meyer: Insects are served in the restaurant . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , August 29, 2019.
- ↑ a b c The Futurium in Berlin before the openingBau flop, look top . Nikolaus Bernau in conversation with Britta Bürger, September 2, 2019
- ↑ a b Annika Wind: Richter Musikowski build the future . In: BauNetz , January 11, 2016
- ^ Futurium . To Werner Sobek
- ↑ forecourt
- ↑ Nina Greve: Diffuse depth effect through cast glass . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , October 2018.
- ↑ Smile to Vote - Political Physiognomy Analytics - alexander peterhaensel. Retrieved September 13, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ "An open ear for fantasies and utopias". Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Tomorrow it should shine. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Aegis / Noosphere - Transforming Space Toronto, Canada - 2018
- ↑ A museum for the future . In: VDI nachrichten , September 13, 2019, No. 37, p. 3
- ↑ The "Restaurant in the Futurium" offers innovative dishes alongside regional classics on the menu. The Sarah Wiener Group is responsible for the gastronomic concept . Sarah Wiener's purveyors to the court run a restaurant in Berlin's Futurium , June 3, 2019, accessed on September 9, 2019
- ↑ Berliner Futurium offers a new look into the future . In: Volksstimme , August 29, 2019.
- ↑ Michael Meyns: The future is good for everyone! In: Die Zukunft , September 5, 2019
- ↑ Skywalk and energy storage
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