Thyssen Krupp World, Essen - Germany [Competition, 2006]

The ThyssenKrupp Quarter meets a large urban park and a building together. The clear structure is broken down in the confrontation with ThyssenKrupp tradition, and the clarity of linear workflows and processes. The public effective functions of the space program, the Headquarter, the multi-functional building and the hotel which occupy prominent positions within the district. With this outstanding frame of the Plaza, the three urban buildings. The compact form of large leaves the existing landscape utmost share the park and created by the concentration of parts of the building a strong, identifiable form.
The modularity of the quarter underscores the recognition and the ThyssenKrupp Quarter meets a large urban park and a building together. The clear structure is broken down in the confrontation with ThyssenKrupp tradition, and the clarity of linear workflows and processes. The basic form is stringent as background for a playful, flexible architectural language, which includes the inventory building with a drive without your self up.
The ThyssenKrupp headquarters represented in its filigree materiality, using innovative facades - and building technologies ThyssenKrupp own claim to innovation and sustainability.
The headquarters is on the spacious lobby with the level of ThyssenKrupp World, and assigns the representative of top management facilities around the atrium.
The competition area in the north-south direction passing zoning band receives two pages with contrasted characteristics. During the ensuing area to the east a hard, urban quality receives, on the western part of the land the „soft“ image of a scenic parks. The park is considered generous, green space with open borders and solidified by the middle. The resulting landscape on the screen receives rasterorientierten tree plantations - composed of großkronigen and strictly maintained growing trees - an artificially-theoretical accent and transmits the image to the group Thyssen-Krupp, with its high standards of innovation and sustainability of the park, the tree-laden park Parts to linger and relax during the lunch break, the large open meadow for informal games and sunbathing. A principal from surrounding gesandstrahlten massive stainless steel plates, as well as a fine, internal park road network open the park and connect it with the adjacent Thyssen-Krupp Quarter Quarter and the extension.
A steel „ridge“ of four pedestrian bridges over the „Boulevard“ runs the Thyssen-Krupp Park with the west open spaces.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]