Technical Town Hall (Munich)
The Technical Town Hall , seldom also called the New Technical Town Hall , is a municipal service building and the seat of the building department of the City of Munich .
location
The Technical Town Hall (Friedenstrasse 40) is located in Munich - Berg am Laim, east of the Ostbahnhof . The development extends to the Berg-am-Laim-Str. - Trausnitzstrasse - Gammelsdorfer Str. - Friedenstr.
history
The technical departments of the city administration of Munich gained in importance, especially after the First World War ; this also meant an increase in the number of specialists and increased space requirements. That is why the initiative was taken as early as 1919 to concentrate all technical departments in one building. With the opening of the municipal high-rise in 1929 on Blumenstrasse (house no. 28b), Munich's first high-rise, this concept was finally implemented.
But soon this high-rise also became too narrow. After the division of the former building department into a planning department (land-use planning and urban development) and a building department (construction maintenance of urban buildings and infrastructure) in the 1980s , the offices of the building department were spread across 23 locations throughout the city in the early 1990s . The planned relocation of the subway unit to the construction unit would have exacerbated this situation. That is why intensive work has been carried out on plans for a central location since 1988. In 1993, after the decision had been made in favor of a new building on the fallow area of the former dairy farm near the Ostbahnhof , an architectural competition was held in which the form was first found and only then the detailed planning should take place. The client on behalf of the City of Munich was HANKO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Vermietungsgesellschaft KG. However, the project management remained with the building department. The Munich architects Ganzer + Unterholzner won the competition in 1993. The detailed planning began in 1994, construction began in 1997. The building, which cost 141.69 million euros, was completed in 2000 and in April 2000 the building was occupied.
Conception
The Technical Town Hall follows the structure of its surroundings with the basic concept of perimeter block development, but sets its own accent with its 63 meter high tower (building) with 18 floors and two elevators. Inside, the principles of “workshop character” and “transparent administration” apply. The transparency is not only created through the use of natural light in the corridors and through the continuous window sills - the offices are also designed to be open and thus allow insights. According to the architects' ideas, the citizens should be able to see the employees of the building department at work and thus both should be able to communicate with one another. The use of these open spaces and the use of simple materials such as exposed concrete, wooden floors in the company restaurant, concrete floors in the hall, etc. give the building a workshop character.
architectural art
The New York artist Vito Acconci created the “Courtyard in the Wind” as art in the building . In the public inner courtyard, a disc slowly rotates in the courtyard when the wind drives the twelve-meter-high H-Darrieus rotor on the top of the tower.
Technical specifications
- Property size: 23,500 m²
- Gross floor area: 82,000 m²
- Main usable area: 41,700 m²
- Gross volume: 282,000 m²
- Office space: 1200
- Employees: approx. 1500
- Underground parking spaces: 263
- Outdoor parking spaces: 10
Function rooms
The Technical Town Hall has event rooms (in the building construction) and a small congress center that is also open to third parties. The Technical Town Hall is also used as a film set for the police headquarters for the crime series Unter Verdacht produced by Arte and ZDF .
literature
- Building Department of the City of Munich (Ed.): The Technical Town Hall . Self-published, Munich 2002.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '49.5 " N , 11 ° 36" 44.4 " E