Federal Archive - Berlin/Germany
History preserved
The ‘red cube’, based on a design by Munich architect firm Stephan Braunfels Architekten, towers over all existing buildings and creates a new look for the site, which has been predominantly used by the military since 1870. From a planning perspective, the ‘red cube’ is extremely important for the whole project as it connects the various functional areas of the Federal Archive. A new reception area for the Federal Archive is also located in one of the adjacent glass buildings.
The new building provides optimum archiving conditions for the stored material and books – in total around 110,000 metres. The need for constant climatic conditions plays a particularly important role, and is achieved solely through intelligent physical building design, rather than through air-conditioning systems that are potentially harmful to the environment.
After completion of the 42 million euro repository building, a second construction phase will commence with two heritage-listed barrack buildings to be renovated to house the new user centre and administrative department of the Federal Archive.
Architecture firm, Rainer Schlenkhoff from Berlin, won the Europe-wide tender for refurbishing and renovating the listed barracks.
Management of public sector building projects
The online project collaboration system, think project!, primarily helps BBR coordinate its numerous subcontractors involved in planning and execution. A standard configuration was defined for BBR by think project! based on experiences from 20 other projects, including the armed forces hospital, Robert Koch Institute or the Federal Ministry of Food plus the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Ministry in Berlin. In consultation with the firm responsible for project controlling for the repository building, eins bis neun architekten ingenieure of Berlin, the configuration was specifically adapted and enhanced for the new project. In addition to plan management and reporting, particular emphasis was placed on the distribution and documentation of correspondence.
