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PROJECTS / P&C CHEMNITZ

Urban Development

Since the mid-1990s, the city center of Chemnitz is being redeveloped based on a new urban plan. The nucleus of this reorganization is the Neumarkt in front of the historic town hall.

As the keystone of the square's development, the project holds significant urban planning importance. The office building, alongside the already completed buildings (Galerie Roter Turm, Galeria Kaufhof) and the town hall, defines the fourth urban edge of Neumarkt to the south and a square boundary of Düsseldorfer Platz to the north. Its floor plan mediates between the building lines of the adjacent construction sites and, in terms of height development, between the varied volumes of the new developments and the town hall.

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The building’s curved roof responds to the different square situations and the eave heights of the neighboring constructions through its varying elevations. Like a projecting loggia, the full-height void expands the street space between the new office building and Galerie Roter Turm into the interior of the building and connects Neumarkt with Düsseldorfer Platz. The front edges of the floors align with the building lines of the adjacent northern construction site, establishing the urban planning connection.

The building features a glass façade tailored to retail uses, with printed areas in the transition zones and a membrane-like stretched glass facade between the curved arches of the roof structure. The loggia's void is fully and transparently glazed, extending into the roof's curvature.

In addition to its urban planning impact, the void serves building technical functions as a transition zone between indoors and outdoors. The void is equipped with sunshades and ventilation flaps for natural ventilation, optimizing the efficiency of the building's technical systems by utilizing the energy gains from sunlight.