Loca­tion: Ham­burg
Period: 2024 to 2025
Cate­gory: New build
Cli­ent: Deut­sches Elek­tro­nen-Syn­ch­ro­ton DESY
Archi­tect: MO Archi­tek­ten, Hamburg

In Ham­burg-Bah­ren­feld, the Ger­man Elec­tron Syn­chro­tron (DESY) com­ple­ted the con­s­truc­tion of a new Inte­gra­ted Tech­no­logy and Start-up Cen­ter (ITGZ I).

DESY is a rese­arch cen­ter of the Helm­holz Society and part of the “Sci­ence City Ham­burg Bah­ren­feld” deve­lo­p­ment area. Basic rese­arch is con­duc­ted here and rese­arch is car­ried out in num­e­rous expe­ri­men­tal areas. In total, the DESY cam­pus in Ham­burg com­pri­ses more than 100 buil­dings of various types, inclu­ding office and labo­ra­tory buil­dings, expe­ri­men­tal faci­li­ties and warehou­ses, work­shops, etc. The first buil­dings were con­s­truc­ted in the early 1960s, and the cam­pus has been ste­adily expan­ding ever since.

The ITGZ I con­sists of a 3‑story base sec­tion appro­xi­m­ately 14 meters high and a 6‑story tower sec­tion appro­xi­m­ately 32.70 meters high. There is a cen­tral core area with a large atrium and an inner cour­ty­ard, from which the cen­tral mee­ting and com­mu­ni­ca­tion areas branch off. The office and labo­ra­tory areas are arran­ged in a ring around this core area. 

The buil­ding was con­s­truc­ted as a rein­forced con­crete frame struc­ture with addi­tio­nal load-bea­ring and bra­cing rein­forced con­crete walls. The floor slab was built as a con­ti­nuous shal­low foun­da­tion wit­hout con­s­truc­tion joints and in vary­ing thicknesses. 

Appro­xi­m­ately 8,000 m³ of con­crete, appro­xi­m­ately 2,900 m² of peri­me­ter insu­la­tion, appro­xi­m­ately 3,100 m² of bitu­mi­nous water­pro­ofing, and appro­xi­m­ately 1,500 metric tons of rebar were used in the construction.