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Birk Heilmeyer and Frenzel Architekten receive 1st prize and are awarded the contract for the new building component V "Personalized Production" for the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA Stuttgart. "In the next construction phase after building section U, the planned new building project (building section V) is to provide office workplaces for a total of 193 employees. This requires 4,124 m² floor space, comprising office, laboratory and pilot plant spaces including the corresponding infrastructure. The new building must meet the Institute's requirements resulting from the dynamic developments, and is intended to offer its employees new space for excellent research work in the future". (Excerpt from the design brief)

We were awarded 2nd prize in the competition for our design submitted for the "Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research" in Würzburg. "The urban planning layout and proportioning of the building are recognised by the jury as a special quality of the contribution. The clear, rectangular and independent structure is compact and allows an inviting access situation in front of the well-positioned main entrance. The modest appearance of the new building, retreating into the campus, is convincing... Overall, the jury praised the design as an outstanding contribution to the competition, which impresses as an economic concept with its clear structure, high flexibility in the interior and its compactness as well as its independence from the entire clinic campus". (Excerpt from the jury assessment)

We are pleased to have won first place and the contract for the new LAZ (learning and application center) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). To live up to its standard as a renowned institution, and to be able to assert itself alongside the striking mechanical engineering high-rise, the new building confidently manifests a formal austerity towards the urban space. Both the constructional and the functional logic becomes evident in the façade which demonstrates the open character of the building. The glass surfaces allow a view into the interior and reveal the design work, the workshops and the informal student life. This way KIT presents the university’s technical and contemporary project-oriented focus to the public.

The design by Birk Heilmeyer and Frenzel Architekten was awarded first prize in the competition for the construction of a new community centre and a day-care facility for children at the Markusturm in Weinheim. The design relates to the key idea "new and old buildings in conjunction". The applied materials differentiate between old (concrete) and new (wood). Together, the buildings form a harmonious entity with clearly defined exterior spaces: cemetery, community courtyard, and playground of the childcare centre. In a subtle counter movement, the undulating roof surface of the new building refers to the sloped church roof. Its resulting shape puts it thus in context with the existing church.

House B in Beinstein is featured in the April issue of Wallpaper* magazine.

Our submission to the design competition "Mobilitätsdrehscheibe Bahnhof Backnang (Mobility Hub of Backnang Station)” included the design of the bus station, multi-storey car park and railway station in Backnang, and was awarded with an honourable mention . “The architects offer an interesting alternative solution on a broader conceptual basis and convince with the independent design of the ZOB", says the jury.e Jury.