Bus terminal roofing
Frankfurt am Main, 2015 - 2023
Transport infrastructure buildings
The roof designed by schneider+schumacher for CA Immo for the Frankfurt bus terminal covers an area of almost 1,000 square metres and covers ten of the 14 bus stops at the long-distance bus terminal built by Kaufmann Bausysteme. Travellers and those waiting see a faceted roof soffit with a glazed wooden surface, which creates a cosy atmosphere. From a bird’s eye view, the 68.80-metre-long and 11.60-metre-wide roof is greened, stores rainwater and thus counteracts overheating in the urban space.
The roof consists of a sustainable, parallelogram-based wooden structure made of cross-laminated timber elements supported by precast spun concrete columns. The 22 elements, formed from inverted ‘umbrellas’, create a multifaceted structure of surfaces and edges. Four spotlights are attached to each column in a ring shape, emphasising the complexity of the geometric structure after dark.
The bus terminal is located south of the main railway station – right next to two other projects by schneider+schumacher: the Frankfurt Station Hotel and the Parking Garage.
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Typology: Transport infrastructure buildingsOffice: Frankfurt und Berlin
