Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Back to Projects list- Location
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Year
- 2014
- Client
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Frankfurt
- Architect overall planning
- Henn, München, Berlin
- Specialist planners
- Tragwerksplanung: ISP Scholz, München Technische Gebäudeausrüstung: H + S Ingenieure, Nürnberg
- Specialist planners
- Landschaftsplanung: LA.BAR, Berlin Elektrotechnik: tfi Ingenieure, Mannheim Fassadenplanung: Gerhard Weber & Partner, Argenbühl
- Specialist planners
- Laborplanung: IKM möller + Partner, Sinn donath post, München
- Area
- 19.600 qm
- Start of planning
- 2008
- Construction time
- 2009 – 2013
- Competition
- 2006, 1st prize
- Functional areas
- seminar rooms, meeting rooms, offices, laborato
- Jobs
- 240
The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research is located on the Riedberg Campus in Frankfurt am Main. The complex consists of two compact buildings: the institute building and the technicum. A spacious main communication and circulation foyer with open stairs and galleries links the two units and offers opportunities for exchanges and impromptu discussions among scientists and staff. Floating boxes, which appear to push themselves out of the glass façades, provide communal meeting and presentation spaces and emphasise the interplay between interior and exterior within this semi- public zone. The four-storey institute building is separated into an office area and a highly equipped laboratory zone with flexible and divisible space for research. The two upper floors accommodate four research departments. The ground floor houses the administrative offices, the central scientific facilities and the laboratories of the independent research groups.