The tenth day of our trip started with a stop at the old Siemens building; now home to a Munich based Real Estate Corporation. The highlight of this building was its central atrium space, enclosed with a concave glass roof. Across the street from this building is the new Siemens building, by architect Richard Meir. Cladded in white panels in typical Meir fashion, this building is nothing spectacular architecturally but a humble building in its own right.
The next stop of the day was the Sammlung Museum Brandhorst by Sauerbruch & Hutton architects. Completed in 2008, this museum is cladded in a multi colored rain screen façade. The architects used a louver system to optimize the natural day lighting. In this museum we saw a lot of great works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Cy Twombly.
The next stop for the day was the school at Munchen – Riem, by Mahler Gunster Fuchs architects completed in 1997. We had a tour of the school from the head master that had much to tell us about his school. The first thing the head master told us was that every architect should worry about the function over form. With this being said he began to tell us everything that he thought was wrong with the school. The natural ventilation system did not work properly, the windows did not let in enough natural light, and the entrance was not recognizable to the students or teachers.
Before we entered the BAU conference for the third day we stopped at my precedent building the two liter multi family housing by Lichtblau Architekten. This building is a passive haus standard building which is the new energy efficient building standard in Germany. With 9 apartments inside the multi family housing, it efficiently only uses 20w/m2. Quite good for today’s building standard!
After all of this site seeing we again traveled into the convention to see some exhibitors and ended the day with another classic old world German meal at Pschorrs restaurant in Fraunhofferstrassen.
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