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PROJECTS / BURDA MEDIA PARK

The rear gardens were designed with lawns, local fruit trees, and early-blooming crocuses. The building is characterized by gently curved roof surfaces that extend to the ground, beneath which the terraced sequences of rooms are arranged. A flush-mounted skylight strip with opening wings is integrated into the roof. The roof itself consists of a 28-centimeter thick reinforced concrete shell. The side roof edge is formed by approximately 1.5-meter wide precast concrete elements. Despite the cooling of the building components, it was not possible to entirely forgo closed facade sections due to the higher summer temperatures in this region.

The exterior of the parapets is clad with a ventilated wooden facade made of untreated Canadian Oregon pine. Above this, there is a square tilt-and-turn window. Below the windows are small ventilation flaps that can be manually adjusted, providing rainproof night cooling in the summer. The reinforced concrete roof construction features wide, continuous concrete overhangs that serve as sun protection for the side facades. Inside, the floors are terraced, and the levels are connected in the center of the building by open steel staircases, creating a continuous spatial flow. Along the longitudinal axis of each "finger," a long glass skylight strip provides daylight over the stairs. All spatial connections are designed to promote communication. Rapid information exchange between editors and staff is facilitated in both the open editorial offices and the general areas of the staff canteen.