Car park

Company headquarters in the northern Black Forest in Lossburg

More people, more need for parking spaces.

For a group in Loßburg, Baden-Württemberg, we worked with the architects from Schmelzle+Partner to create a new parking garage for employees. The background for the new building was the company’s expansion.

The challenge was to integrate the new building into the existing company campus and its topography as precisely, quietly and harmoniously as possible. The building was built on a lower, existing parking lot in order to visually minimize the height of the surrounding buildings and in this way create a symbiosis with the landscape.

Fact sheet

Year

2016

Location

Lossburg

Country

Germany

Number of parking spaces

650

Bicycle

50

Customer

ARBURG GmbH + CoKG

Co-operation partner

SCHMELZLE+PARTNER MBB Architekten BDA

Services

Consulting, Concept, Planning, Execution

Features

Design, Noise cancelling, Soundproof facade, Sustainability

Project category

Employee car park, New construction

Façade

Slats and expanded metal

The façade made of slats and expanded metal is visually interrupted by vertical, bronze-coloured pilaster strips made of anodised aluminium. This creates different structures depending on the perspective. As the company operates in shifts and the car park is also frequented between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., the entire façade has a sound-absorbing effect on the outside. To protect the vehicles and employees from the weather in the best possible way, the top level of the the top car park level was also covered with a flat gravel roof.

The entire statics of the building were designed for the installation of a photovoltaic system on the full-surface roofing of the multi-storey car park. Supply lines for future e-charging devices were also laid with foresight. The car park’s lighting is provided by 100 per cent energy-saving LEDs. In January 2023, the client commissioned a new system with 1,652 solar modules. The annual electricity production could generate more than 680,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. This means that the car park is self-sufficient in terms of energy and can even supply electricity to other buildings. An underground 20,000-litre rainwater tank was also installed. The water collected there is used to irrigate the outdoor facilities.