Loca­tion: Ham­burg
Period: 2024 to 2025
Cate­gory: New build
Cli­ent: Deut­sches Elek­tro­nen-Syn­ch­ro­ton DESY
Archi­tect: MO Archi­tek­ten, Hamburg

The Ger­man Elec­tron Syn­chro­tron (DESY) is buil­ding a new Inte­gra­ted Tech­no­logy and Start-up Cen­ter (ITGZ I) in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

DESY is a rese­arch cen­ter of the Helm­holz Society and part of the “Sci­ence City Ham­burg Bah­ren­feld” deve­lo­p­ment area. Basic rese­arch is con­duc­ted here and rese­arch is car­ried out in num­e­rous expe­ri­men­tal areas. In total, the DESY site in Ham­burg com­pri­ses more than 100 buil­dings of all kinds, inclu­ding office and labo­ra­tory buil­dings, expe­ri­men­tal and sto­rage halls, work­shops, etc. The first buil­dings were con­s­truc­ted in the early 1960s and the site has been con­ti­nuously expan­ded ever since.

The ITGZ I is plan­ned with a 3‑storey base zone with a height of approx. 14 m and a 6‑storey tower area with a height of approx. 32.70 m. There will be a cen­tral core zone with a large atrium and an inner cour­ty­ard, from which the cen­tral mee­ting and com­mu­ni­ca­tion areas will lead off. The office and labo­ra­tory areas are arran­ged in a ring around this core zone. 

The buil­ding is a rein­forced con­crete ske­le­ton struc­ture with addi­tio­nal load-bea­ring and stif­fe­ning rein­forced con­crete walls. The floor slab is con­s­truc­ted as a con­ti­nuous flat foun­da­tion wit­hout struc­tu­ral joints and in various thicknesses. 

Approx. 8,000 m³ of con­crete, approx. 2,900 m² of peri­me­ter insu­la­tion, approx. 3,100 m² of bitu­mi­nous water­pro­ofing and approx. 1,500 t of rein­force­ment will be installed.

The con­tract also includes the ear­thworks. Con­s­truc­tion star­ted in Novem­ber 2024 and the shell is expec­ted to be com­ple­ted in Octo­ber 2025.