Robotron site at Pirnaischer Platz
The buildings of the former management and the Center for Research and Technology (ZFT) of the VEB Kombinat Robotron are located on the Robotron site at Pirnaischer Platz in Dresden . The area is located on St. Petersburger Strasse (former Leningrader Strasse) between Pirnaischer Platz and Georgplatz . The Bürgerwiese adjoins the area to the south and the Hygiene Museum to the east .
history
The SED district management decided in 1968 to build a new building complex for the development and manufacture of computer technology in the center of Dresden on St. Petersburger Strasse opposite the New Town Hall . The building complex built from 1969 to 1972 by the VEB Housing and Society Building consists of an L-building (combine management, today motel), Atrium I (ZFT; demolished in 2016) and Atrium II (1980-2017, Robotron measuring electronics and company policlinic ), one Social building ( company restaurant ) and the data center (later carpet shop, demolished in 2016).
Atrium I was demolished from March to November 2016. The data center was demolished from November to December 2016. All buildings are to be demolished, with the exception of the combine management and the canteen. The “Lingnerstadt” residential park has been under construction on the site since 2017 .
description
The building complex was designed by a collective of architects led by Axel Magdeburg and Werner Schmidt. The Dresden artist Friedrich Kracht designed the decorative concrete blocks in the style of the 1970s. Together with Karl-Heinz Adler , Kracht created many of these differently composable ornamental concrete elements.
The lined up molded stone facades made of concrete are remarkable. The wall design using molded concrete blocks represents the ornament in the modern age of GDR architecture of the 1970s. These were attached to the front of the office buildings as special decoration. Concrete blocks also form the perforated wall walls outside the Robotron area.
Concrete blocks are used to design the wall in the dining room planned by Herbert Zimmer, Peter Schramm and Siegfried Thiel. A deconstructivist, abstract glass mosaic (partially destroyed when it was demolished in 2016) adorned the stairwell. In the courtyard of today's “Robotron Office Center” there is a decorative wall made of molded concrete blocks. Breakthrough plastic modules made of concrete adorn walls and walls. Ceramic shaped stone serves as an element of facade and landscape design.
The complex consisted of 5 buildings:
- Combine management - "Pirnaisches Tor office building" (probably the only building that remains)
- Atrium I - "Bürohaus Bürgerwiese" (first building that was demolished. Built in 1980, demolished in 2016)
- Atrium II - "Lingnerallee office building" (The building is expected to be demolished in 2020.)
- Canteen (There are plans to keep it as a cultural venue.)
- Data center (The data center was the second building to be demolished in 2016, most recently it was a "Carpet Friends" branch.)
use
The building was scheduled to be demolished in the 1990s. This plan has since been abandoned or postponed. Parts of the old Robotron buildings are used by smaller companies. In addition, due to the renovation of the town hall, several city administration facilities have their headquarters in the office buildings Pirnaisches Tor and Lingnerallee . At the western end of Lingnerallee, near St. Petersburger Straße, there is a skate park .
A residential park with 3000 apartments is expected to be built on the site in 2025 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Merkel: VEB Kombinat Robotron - A combine of the Ministry for Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR . Dresden 2006, p. 27 f . ( foerderverein-tsd.de [PDF; 580 kB ]).
- ^ Robotron site in Dresden. In: das-neue-dresden.de. Retrieved December 23, 2010 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 51.8 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 42" E