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)