New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Ute Zscharnt

Site plan

Site plan

© Riegler Riewe Architekten

The “Kleine Mandel” (little almond) is a large car park for around 2,800 cars located at the entrance to the central area of the Hamburg airport terminal. Key design parameters included integration of the building into local structures, typological positioning, architectural formulation as a distinctive solitary building, and an ideal ratio of parking spaces to circulation area. The five-storey car park with six parking levels unpretentiously describes a rounded triangle with high recognition value that is carefully embedded in the surroundings. A permeable screen of horizontal concrete strips abstracts the scale. By means of recurring elements, the specific form of an equilateral triangle permitted efficient construction with comparably little space required for the necessary parking spaces. As a result, there was still room for a spacious courtyard ensuring adequate supply of fresh air and daylight, thus dispensing with the need for mechanical ventilation and minimising the use of artificial lighting, which in turn facilitates wayfinding inside the building.

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Ute Zscharnt

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Ute Zscharnt

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Ute Zscharnt

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Ute Zscharnt

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Ute Zscharnt

New car park P1 Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany

© Riegler Riewe Architekten

Competition

2011, 1st Prize

Completion

2014

Project type

Infrastructure

Client

Flughafen Hamburg GmbH

Architects

Riegler Riewe Architekten

Planning experts

Structural planning:
Ingenieurbüro Dr. Binnewies Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH., Hamburg, Engelsmann Peters beratende Ingenieure, Stuttgart (competition)

Building services engineering:
RMN Ingenieure GmbH, Hamburg

Traffic design:
ARGUS Stadt- und Verkehrsplanung, Hamburg

Landscape design:
GFP Grün und Freiraumplanung, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Wüsten Landschaftsarchitekt BDA, Hamburg

Technical data

Planning area: 3,5 ha
Cubature: 220.000 m³
Gross floor area: 76.000 m²
Net floor area: 72.700 m²
Capacity: 2.782 parking spaces

Awards

AIT Award 2016 – 3rd Prize
Best Architects 16

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