ZF Forum

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ZF Forum
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Logo of the ZF Friedrichshafen AG
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place Friedrichshafen
Art
ZF headquarters / forum / open house / art foundation / ZF museum
architect Wolfgang Kergassner
opening 18th November 2016
operator
ZF AG Friedrichshafen
Website
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The ZF Forum in Friedrichshafen is the corporate headquarters of the automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG .

The corporate management, conference rooms for symposia and the ZF Museum on the ground floor are housed in the 35,000 m² building. Events of the Zeppelin University and the ZF Art Foundation take place here. The grounds, forecourt and the atrium around which the museum and theme park are arranged are freely accessible.

architecture

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Panoramic photo of the interior

The first planning took place in 2010. Construction began in 2013. The chief architect was Wolfgang Kergaßner from Stuttgart. The basic concept is a house open to the public, and the ZF office 3.0 work concept also finds its place. The construction costs amounted to 92 million euros.

exhibition

Since its opening in November 2016, the ZF Forum has offered the Group the opportunity to publicly display customer, product and trade fair exhibits from the company's more than 100-year history. The focus of the exhibition is on exhibits relating to the drive train (transmission, steering, suspensions and axles). Furthermore, innovation development over a century in the automotive industry.

theme park

  • Racing  : history and involvement in racing
  • History  : Company history of Zeppelin airship transmissions, automotive transmissions, drive trains, ...
  • Innovations  : Invention and developments e.g. B. Synchronizers, double clutch transmissions , continuously variable hydrostatic transmissions , helical gears, automatic transmissions, active axle suspensions, steering gears, production development ...
  • Customer vehicles  : BMW 327 Cabriolet (1939), Magirus-Deutz (1940), Porsche Diesel, Alfa-Romeo , Audi , DKW, Hanomag ...

ZF Art Foundation

The ZF Art Foundation was established in 1990. The funding concept comprises three main themes:

  • Regional cultural funding
  • Scholarship for visual artists
  • ZF Music Prize

Student research center FN

As of November 2016, the ZF will provide the non-profit association student research center at the Friedrichshafen location with 5 laboratory and experiment rooms. The aim is to arouse students' interests in science and technology.

photos

Web links

Commons : ZF Forum  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgart architects
  2. ↑ Group headquarters - ZF's new headquarters are being built in Friedrichshafen. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ ZF Forum will be a “beautiful piece of house” . In: Swabian . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on July 10, 2018]).
  4. ↑ IF Forum - architects Kergaßner . In: Kergassner architects . January 25, 2014 ( architekturbuero-stuttgart.de [accessed July 10, 2018]).
  5. ↑ ZF Art Foundation: ZF Art Foundation | ZF Art Foundation. Retrieved on July 10, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ ZF office concept 3.0
  7. ↑ Collection: ZF Historic Vehicles
  8. ↑ 50 years of automatic passenger car transmissions - success stories in series. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Official presentation of the ZF Museum
  10. ↑ Friedrichshafen . In: SFZ . ( sfz-bw.de [accessed on July 10, 2018]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 0.4 ″  E