Berlin Hauptbahnhof

Now you are asked to make a proposal for the actual counterpart, the Infobox to be situated on the south-plaza of former “Lehrter Trainstation”.

Description/ Masterplan Program:
The whole site development (see copy “city masterplan”, MK1-MK9, train station) proposal envisions areas of total 220.000qm, with 33% of it used as residential areas. Approximately 100.000qm office space, ~11.000qm retail spaces on all ground floor levels, leave ~20.000qm for residential use in most of the blocks. The trainstation itself is considered to provide for an additional 20.000qm retail areas.

The infobox’s major use will be that of an indoor public space focused on the nearby construction. All persons involved in the construction-site, such as developers, local architects will make special use of the building for exchange with the public via presentations etc...Refer to the precedent on the Potsdamer Platz for further illustration. The program needs to incorporate also the spirit, ideas and concepts of the previous research phases. This means to think the extension of the project to the virtual global space. After several years when the whole site is fully developed, the infobox needs to move on as well, the virtual might stay. Therefore the actual infobox should be a temporary building with a transitory feel to it, and its design needs to be flexible in that in could be adapted to a variety of sites.

The infobox brief/ program should include but is not limited to:
-exhibition space (digital & traditional media)
-conference/ media hall
-office space
Optional:
-cafeteria
-shop/ kiosk
-functional areas/ circulation areas/ construction space
Total area should not exceed 500 qm

Consider the strategic placement of the infobox on the site. Be aware that there needs to be enough space left around the construction sites of the future buildings (masterplan!) for machinery, cranes, trucks etc...There is also a highrise office building in the middle of the site to respect.
Special attention should be made to:
construction technique, contur-line building (figure-ground), Proportion, Relationship openings- massing, Organization of openings, Natural daylight, Noise, etc…

building-street relationship; pay attention to public infrastructure systems, open plaza-concepts for air, light; entrances to the plaza, etc.; consider the site work is under way – be careful how to ground the building;
building / unit - typical plan – and sectional conditions; aspects of infrastructure (circulation- vertical and horizontal connections) and programmatic distribution (unit/s and building); space for structure- material- mechanical services.
Building system/ components – construction system needs to fit in industrial shipping containers!

Requirements: (teamlevel 2 persons) scale 1/16”~1:200

· digital sketch drawings, draw up your first concept thoughts about the Infobox! Consider it to be the extension of the vitual site!

· diagrams; plan & sections diagrammatic - scale 1/16”~1:200

· mass models/ 3D-pattern models/ parties; scale 1/16”~1:200; minimum 3 schemes;

· design presentation: one architects “pavilion” selected from the list (analog 11x17 pdf & digital ppshow), analyse general dimensions, exterior cladding, cladding joint, structural system & material, structure joint details, floor-wall connection, daylight system, program, access, infrastructure& circulation system etc..

designer pavilions:

1. V. Acconci, River Mur building

2. B. Tschumi, Video Gallery, Groningen

3. K. Oosterhuis, E-motive house

4. K. Oosterhuis, Web of North Holland

5. L. Spuybroek, Nox, Freshwater-Saltwater pavilion

6. Toyo Ito, Serpentine Gallery

7. Toyo Ito, Parque de la Relajacion

8. Renzo Piano, IBM traveling exhibit pavilion

9. Berhard Franken, BMW pavilion, the bubble

10. Bernhard Franken, BMW Dynaform

11. Shigeru Ban, Japan Pavilion, Expo, Hannover 2000

12. Shigeru Ban, Paper Studio 2003

13. Shigeru Ban, Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne

14. Monika Gora, Octatube, Greenhouse

15. M.Goulthorpe, decoi, Miran Gallery

16. Anish Kapoor, The Cloud

17. Siza & Souto de Moura, Serpentine Pavilion 2005

18. Future Systems, Lords Cricket ground