Boehringer Ingelheim G144, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

The depth of the building is a result of the inner organisation of the building's functions and the demand for attractive open areas providing an adequate work environment. Based on an optimized building outline that faciliates the organisation of the biggest departments per building level a building structure is generated that creates differently sized loggias in the building's outer shell and multi-level voids inside the building. Combined with staircases and corridors an open system of short cross-connections and spatially widening longitudinal connections is established which provide intervisibility either to the next lower or higher level insde the building or the exterior.

The compact structure, a cuboidal structure that – despite the extensive depth of the building – still allows an optimal amount of daylight to penetrate and develops based on how the functional sequences are organized internally and the demand for attractive, open spaces. The loggias of various sizes located on the outer shell and the multi-story air spaces in the interior, together with the axes and stairwells on each floor, create an open system of short cross-connections and elongated, longitudinal connections with a variety of view relationships.