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Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg - Building Details
PROGRAM: Science Center, restaurant, cafe, shop, auditorium, underground
car park
CLIENT: Neuland Wohnbaugesellschaft mbH
Erfurter Ring 15
38444 Wolfsburg
On behalf of the City of Wolfsburg
ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid Architects [London, UK]
Architects Zaha Hadid Architects + Mayer Baehrle Freie
Architekten BDA [Loerrach, Germany]
Project Architect [Zaha Hadid] Christos Passas
Asst. Project Architect [Zaha Hadid] Sara Klomps,
Competition Team Christos Passas, Janne Westermann,
Chris Dopheide, Stanley Lau, Eddie Can,
Yoash Oster, Jan Hubener, Caroline Voet
Special Contributor [Zaha Hadid] Patrik Schumacher (Director)
Contributors [Zaha Hadid Architects] Silvia Forlati, Guenter Barczik,
Lida Charsouli,
Marcus Liermann, Kenneth Bostock, Enrico Kleinke,
Constanze Stinnes, Liam Young, Chris Dopheide,
Barbara Kuit, Niki Neerpasch, Markus Dochantschi
Project Architects [Mayer Baehrle] Rene Keuter, Tim Oldenburg
Project Team [Mayer Baehrle] Sylvia Chiarappa, Stefan Hoppe, Andreas Gaiser,
Roman Bockemühl, Annette Finke, Stefanie Lippardt,
Marcus Liermann, Jens Hecht, Christoph Volkmar
CONSULTANTS: Structural Engineers Adams Kara Taylor [London, UK]
Tokarz Freirichs Leipold [Hanover, Germany]
Services Engineers NEK [Braunschweig, Germany]
Buro Happold [London, UK]
Lighting Consultants Fahlke & Dettmer [Hanover, Germany]
Office for Visual Interaction [New York, USA]
SIZE/AREA : Science Center 12.000 m2
Underground Car Park 15.000 m2

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Phaeno Science Centre - Description from Zaha Hadid Architects:
The Science Center, the first of its kind in Germany, appears as a mysterious
object, giving rise to curiosity and discovery. The visitor is faced with
a degree of complexity and strangeness, which is ruled however by a very
specific system of structural organization. Located on a very special
site in the City of Wolfsburg it is set both as the endpoint of a chain
of important cultural buildings (by Aalto, Scharoun and Schweger) as well
as being a connecting link to the north bank of the Mittelland Kanal -Volkswagens
Car Town. Multiple threads of pedestrian and vehicular movement are pulled
through the site both on an artificial ground landscape and inside and
through the building, effectively composing an interface of movement-paths.
Volumetrically, the building is structured in such a way that it maintains
a large degree of transparent and porosity on the ground, since the main
volume -the Exhibition- is raised thus covering an outdoor public plaza
with a variety of commercial and cultural functions which reside in the
structural concrete cones. An artificial crater-like landscape is developed
inside the open exhibition space allowing diagonal views to the different
levels of the exhibition-scape, while volumes, which protrude, accommodate
other functions of the science center. A glazed public wormhole-like extension
of the existing bridge flows through the building allowing views to and
from the exhibition space.

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Phaeno Centre : Building PR from Zaha Hadid Architects 180107
Phaeno Science Centre
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Alfredo Arribas
German Buildings by Zaha Hadid Architects:
LFone Landesgartenschau, Weil am Rhein
Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein
BMW Central Building, Leipzig
IBA-Block 2 - Housing project, Berlin
Unbuilt German Building Project:
KMR, Art and Media Centre, Düsseldorf

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Phaeno Science Centre
: RIBA European Awards 2006
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