Churchly Office Building at Gernsheim
title: new building for the Starkenburg-West Protestant regional administration
purpose: administration building
location: Theodor-Heuss-Straße 54a, 64579 Gernsheim am Rhein
client: Evangelischer Regionalverwaltungsverband
competition: 2001 (1. prize)
building time: 2002 - 2003
structural engineer: S+P GmbH, Schlier und Partner, Darmstadt
Due to the merging of several pension offices, there was a need for an administration building with approx. 40 workplaces, a print shop and a flat, and the careful division of the room programme made it possible to realise an almost windowless north façade facing the busy main road, which is contrasted by a south façade that opens completely onto the garden. Oak wood and peat-fired clinker bricks were chosen as the defining materials with the aim of constructing an administrative building that creates something contemporary and modern from traditional materials.
