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Design administrative headquarters IBM Deutschland GmbH
1965-1966

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Design administrative headquarters IBM Deutschland GmbH

In order to improve its operational organisation, the IBM Group planned to centralise the various separate departments of its administration in one location to form a head office with 1,700 employees. Alternatively, a high-rise and a low-rise solution were developed.

The high-rise project shows a group of three buildings connected to each other by a covered walkway: a high-rise building with the offices, a four-storey building for workshops, data processing and special rooms and a pavilion with the cafeteria. The high-rise building is conceived as a suspended construction in which the core is first poured in slipform and then the load-bearing storey, which is concreted and prestressed on the ground, is hydraulically pressed up together with the suspended steel ceilings. The low-rise building project combines offices, workshops, data processing and special rooms in a four-storey building with two inner courtyards. The floor plan has a dual layout, with the large offices on the outer sides and the smaller units and access cores on the inner courtyard sides. As in the high-rise project, the cafeteria is positioned next to the administration building as a separate structure.

Immo Boyken, „Entwurfscharakteristika im Werk von Egon Eiermann aus der Zeit nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg“ , Diss., Universität Karlsruhe, Fakultät Architektur, Teil III, S. 262