Wulf Architects

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wulf architects gmbh
legal form GmbH
founding 1987
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management Tobias Wulf , Jan-Michael-Kallfaß, Ingmar Menzer, Steffen Vogt
Number of employees 102
Branch architecture
Website www.wulfarchitekten.com
As of December 31, 2018

Wulf Architekten is a German architecture firm with headquarters in Stuttgart .

history

The office emerged from the architectural office founded by Tobias Wulf in 1987 and is now managed by Tobias Wulf , Jan-Michael Kallfaß, Ingmar Menzer and Steffen Vogt. From 1996 to 2018 Kai Bierich and Alexander Vohl worked as partners of Tobias Wulf at wulf architects. The increasingly international activity led to further branches - for example in Berlin and Basel , Switzerland.

Currently (2019) the office employs around 140 people, nine of them as lead architects. In addition to their office work, the managing directors are also involved in teaching, in design advisory boards and in juries.

The focus of the construction work is on public buildings in the areas of culture, education and research as well as offices, trade and social affairs, sometimes also for private clients. Since the turn of the millennium in particular, building in existing structures, innovative energy concepts and major infrastructural projects such as trade fairs and cultural buildings have been part of the architectural office's repertoire.

A large part of the project orders are based on competitive successes such as the new campus building of the Bern University of Applied Sciences (1st prize, 2019), the German Embassy in Tbilisi , Georgia (1st prize, 2014), the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn (1st prize, 2011), the State Office for Finance in Landshut (1st prize, 2006), the adidas factory outlet in Herzogenaurach (1st prize, 2002) and the Neue Messe Stuttgart (1st prize, 2000). Since the office was founded in 1987, around five hundred competitions have been processed, 65 of which have been awarded 1st prize.

The four primary schools in Munich represent a key project with a modular design . According to the specifications of the Munich City Council, the design for the four primary schools is based on the educational concept of the “Munich Learning House”. This takes architectural, pedagogical and school organizational aspects into account, enables contemporary learning and thus guarantees a high quality of education and teaching. The project plays a pioneering role in German school construction, as it was created as a pilot project for modular construction.

Another outstanding project is the DZNE in Bonn. It is characterized in particular by the fact that it takes a position on all three dimensions of sustainability - ecology, economy and socio-cultural aspects - and also takes into account the aspects of technical quality and process quality. It is the first laboratory building in Germany to receive the “Gold” certification from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Homeland, according to the Sustainable Building Assessment System for Federal Buildings (BNB).

The New Stuttgart Trade Fair Center , completed in 2007 , which emphasizes the relationship to the surrounding landscape with its curved roofs and glass facades, is one of the office's first key works. This major project, which includes 7 exhibition halls, a congress center and an event hall, documents the intensive examination of the special features of a location. Tobias Wulf explains: "Our design does not exclusively follow functional requirements - these must be fulfilled of course - but it was essentially based on overarching criteria of the landscape and the perception of space." tenth hall, which is spanned by 68 meter long laminated wood beams. In planning are currently u. a. another exhibition hall, a second congress center and another large car park.

Project photos

  • Draft sketch for the new trade fair in Stuttgart, 2004

  • New trade fair in Stuttgart, 2007

  • Evangelical primary school in Karlsruhe, 2013

  • Protestant primary school in Karlsruhe, detail of the lamellar facade, 2013

  • School center north in Stuttgart, 2015

  • Dialog school center in Cologne, 2015

  • DZNE German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn, 2017

  • Jakob-Sigle-Heim in Kornwestheim, 2017

  • Four elementary schools in modular design in Munich, 2017

buildings

Awards

  • 2018 Joseph Maria Olbrich badge from the BDA Hessen for the Hessenwald School, Weiterstadt
  • 2016 best architects award 17 for the North School Center, Stuttgart and the Corporate Center of GFT AG, Stuttgart-Fasanenhof
  • 2015 Hugo Häring state award for the Protestant primary school with sports hall, Karlsruhe
  • 2013 best architects award 14 for the Protestant primary school with sports hall, Karlsruhe
  • 2012 best architects award 13 for the facade renovation of the Kaufhof multi-storey car park, Stuttgart
  • 2012 Fritz Bender Prize for the steelcase company daycare center, Rosenheim
  • 2011 best architects award 12 for the State Office for Finance, Landshut
  • 2010 Thomas Wechs Prize awarded to the butcher's trade training center, Augsburg
  • 2007 best architects award 08 for the head office of Schwenninger BKK , Villingen-Schwenningen
  • 2007 European Award for Steel Structures for the car park above the A8, Stuttgart
  • 2006 Renault Traffic Design Award for the adidas factory outlet, Herzogenaurach

literature

  • wulf architects: rhythm and melody, with an introduction by Hubertus Adam, Sulgen (CH): niggli Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-7212-0900-6
  • Wulf & Partner: Wulf & Partner selected works 2003–2010, Wiesbaden: Nelte Verlag 2010, ISBN 3-932509-53-6
  • Falk Jaeger: Wulf & Partner - Monograph, Berlin: Jovis Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-55-6
  • Falk Jaeger: Under swinging roofs, Die Neue Messe Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg: avedition Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89986-091-7
  • Wulf & Partner: Adidas Factory Outlet - Architecture and Design, Ludwigsburg: avedition Verlag 2005; ISBN 3-89986-041-1
  • Wulf & Partner: inbewegung, exhibition catalog Berlin: aedes Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-937093-38-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ cf. "Gib Alles! Architectural competitions in dialogue between generations", exhibition in the architecture gallery at Weißenhof in Stuttgart, October 26, 2017 to January 7, 2018
  3. ↑ detail | BFH - Bern University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ BauNetz Media GmbH: Architectural Land Georgia - Competition for German Embassy Tbilisi decided. September 24, 2014, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ wulf architects (ed.): Rhythmus und Melodie, Sulgen (CH): niggli Verlag, p. 240
  6. ↑ cf. Paul, Jochen: "Ready for series production". In: Bauwelt 18 (2018), pp. 30–37, here p. 32f.
  7. ↑ Evaluation system for sustainable building. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Winterhager, Uta: "Color memory on the Venusberg". In: Bauwelt 12 (2017), pp. 28–37, here p. 34f.
  9. ↑ Home | wulf architects. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  10. ^ Tobias Wulf: The mass in the landscape; in: Falk Jaeger: Under swinging roofs, Die Neue Messe Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg: avedition Verlag 2007, p. 54
  11. ↑ Contribution to the completion of Hall 10 from the Stuttgarter Zeitung
  12. ↑ Press release of the BDA Hessen