KIKA laboratory building
Hanau
- Phases: General contractor, Appraisal, Preliminary design, Design development, Planning approval, Technical planning, Tender documentation, Tender action, Site management
- Planning time: 2001 - 2004
- Gross Floor Area: 5287 m2
- Gross Volume: 24581 m3
- Building contractor: Degussa AG Hanau
The KIKA laboratory building comprises a three-storey laboratory structure with twelve laboratory rooms and a four-storey administration structure (head-end structure). The new building stands on the site of the industrial estate Wolfgang in Hanau. The building is intended for the development of catalysts. On the upper floors of the head-end structure there are offices with kitchenettes, warehouses and storage rooms. There are meeting rooms on the ground floor and roof including roof terrace. Laboratory and office areas are separated from each other by an access zone. The access zone as well as the ground floor are optically separated from the office complex by a whole glass facade that is clad with a suspended fibre cement plate facade. The laboratory areas are characterised by horizontal ribbon windows with fibre cement cladding in the parapet areas and coloured full heating insulation.
Project leader: Ulrike Rothamel
Team: Ralf Mühlfeit, Sandra Vergin, Nina Hartmann, Judith Herge, Christine Pump
