New construction EUROPAN 12

Project description

 An ideas competition was held for the new building EUROPAN 12, which was won by fabriK • B Architekten from Berlin. The existing buildings on Pillenreuther Straße 126-136, Galvanistraße 58, Schillingstraße 1-11 and Sperberstraße 61-71, most of which were built around 1920, were demolished for the realisation of the new building.

Demolition was necessary because the previous buildings were also no longer able to be renovated. The new building also has more than double the living space (10,850 m²) compared to the existing buildings (3,986 m²).

The classic perimeter block development (several buildings are connected in a block) is opened up in three places and thus has a passage to the semi-public inner courtyard. This is the heart of the complex. The height of the three building sections is aligned with the adjacent neighbouring buildings and the urban environment.

A perforated façade (windows are left open in the shell for later use) is designed in response to the noise pollution caused by the traffic areas surrounding the building; the rooms open up to the inner courtyard via generous loggias and ceiling-high window elements.

The project “EUROPAN 12” – a housing complex with 132 units in urban Südstadt, Nuremberg” earned wbg Nürnberg the German Building Award. >> To the press release