News from the IHK

A new building for the IHK (Palatinate Chamber of Industry and Commerce), designed by schneider+schumacher, is currently under construction in Ludwigshafen. A key design feature is its generously glazed open façade. “We are using differently tilted prismatic surfaces here that reflect the trees and also the sky in very different ways,” says Christian Simons, describing the façade effect in a new video about the new building project.

Project manager Patrick Lange explains: “The training and seminar rooms are designed as three-storey buildings in the inner courtyard with its very heterogeneous neighbourhood structure. We have organised them into sunken courtyards and roof terraces so that all training and seminar rooms are optimally lit and ventilated.”

 The atrium with its sculptural spiral staircase acts as a focal point of the building. The wooden construction lends the interior a warm, pleasant atmosphere and offers good acoustics. Sustainability is both enduring and beautiful. Christian Simons explains: ‘That’s why we always try to construct buildings so that they are not only of high-quality and people can easily use them, but are also flexible and lend themselves to being converted, so that rather than being taken down, they can be internally reorganised.’