The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has design this arresting 247,569 - square - foot Science Centre for the Hamburg Hafencity , which is part of the Hamburg harbor , one of the largest ports in the world . The stunning halo designing is composed of 10 modular blocks , and it will admit a science theatre of operations , aquarium , theater , offices , laboratories and retail area . It may be their painterly nature , but the rest of the version make it calculate quite surreal , in a Matrix - meets - Tetris kind of way .
otterdam , January 22nd 2008 ): The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has revealed the final intention for a Science Centre and Aquarium for the Hamburg Hafencity coordination compound .
The construction of 23,000 m2 will comprise of a Science Centre , aquarium , theatre , office , laboratories and commercial-grade and retail facility and is located at the eastern edge of Hafencity , Hamburg ’s challenging harbor renovation .
The Science Centre is constructed of 10 modular blocks that link up to form a ring- molded construction . This conception permit for maximal tractableness for exhibitions . visitor will start out their visit at the so - called “ theme station ” just under the top of the building , cover over through the expo halls and descend in the modular blocks through the various present scientific subjects , such as “ the beginning of life ” or “ everything flows . ” Approx . 8,500 m2 of the building is locate underground with a with child part of this quad being taken up by the fish tank , providing a zoological go from Hamburg to the Red Sea .
With terraces on various levels of the construction the Science Centre allows panoramic views of Hamburg city centre as well as to the West and East sides of the Magdeburg harbor .
By providing rentable authority and research lab space the construction will playact as a hub for various scientific institution in Hamburg . ethnic Senator of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Karin von Welck explained that : “ The raw Science Center will be established as an interdisciplinary meeting place for Hafencity Hamburg , an innovative space for artistic creation , cultivation and science . ”
As a Science Centre the construction chair by example addressing the issue of sustainability not only in its flexible approaching to computer programing and mapping but also by incorporate the former environmental technologies .
Speaking at the project launch yesterday Rem Koolhaas said “ this building is supposed to reflect Hamburg ’s serious aspiration for the development of the former port sphere . ” OMA ’s Science Centre is the later in a series of buildings commissioned by Hamburg Hafencity GmbH as part of a declamatory scale regeneration programme of the domain , which stretches some 155 hectare between city centre and the river Elbe . The design is a further development of the winning scheme designed by OMA in 2004 .
The project is lead by OMA Partners Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon with Marc Paulin as project designer . former quislingism included the design of the new headquarter for NM Rothschild & Sons in London and the redevelopment of Mercati Generali in Rome . Koolhaas and Van Loon completed together Porto ’s Casa da Musica and the new Netherlands Embassy in Berlin .
[ OMAviaDezeen ]
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