Straßenperspektive des Direktionsgebäudes der BImA in Rostock | SHA Scheffler Helbich Architekten

BImA headquarters building in Rostock

Our competition design - a carbon dioxide storage facility

Cubature and spatial arrangement

The design consists of two parallel building blocks, the storeys of which are adapted to the surrounding buildings and arranged orthogonally to the existing BImA headquarters building in Rostock. In the eastern area, the two new buildings are connected by a single-storey main hall, creating an inner courtyard between them that is enclosed on all sides and receives sufficient natural light thanks to the low storeys of the southern part of the building and the flat roof pitch. The transparent foyer of the eastern part of the building serves as a central access point to both wings of the building, can be used as a meeting point for employees and guests and also provides a view from the public space into the green inner courtyard of the directorate.

Special materiality

The external appearance of the management building is characterized by carbonized wood, which naturally withstands the weather in the long term due to the surface treatment without any further coatings.

Galvanized steel sheets are used for the roof covering and as fixed sun protection elements on the south-facing windows. The south-facing roof surfaces will be fully equipped with photovoltaic elements, and the newly planned outdoor areas, which can be used for lunch breaks or working outdoors, will be irrigated by a cistern with collected rainwater.

A building as a CO2 storage facility

Components in contact with the ground are planned to be made of reinforced concrete, while a timber construction is planned for the rest of the load-bearing structure, which will enable high energy and CO2 savings. The sum total of all measures for our building design even results in a negative CO2 balance, so that the various resource-saving measures over the entire life cycle of the building bind more carbon dioxide than would be emitted during construction, use and subsequent dismantling.