Eastsite Mannheim
Design and realization of textile-reinforced concrete façades
In 2001, the city of Mannheim commissioned Fischer Architekten GmbH to develop a concept for a new type of business park. In the interests of sustainable urban development, the requirements of commercial users and economic and social aspects were to be brought together with urban-architectural design in a new, holistic form. As a result, the architectural office realized a multitude of buildings which are now growing together into an urban structure by sharing common principles such as material homogeneity, proportion, typology and the concrete sandwich type of construction. At the same time,...
