The planned mixed-use development of the new building "Sonnenhof" provides for an allocation of land in industrial, office and residential use. This accounts for approximately 15% commercial, 40% on office and 45% on residential areas. The basic idea of the courtyard as a vibrant urban area, following, are in the ground floor areas of all commercial buildings provided by the public. Building 2 will include the ground floor of the premises advising customers of the WG Carl Zeiss.

Land

The project "Sonnenhof" is located on a pooled from several parcels of land with a total area of about 3500 m2 in the center of Jena. The current derelict area is bounded on the north by the rear building and the square "house to the sun", in the south it opens to the Löbdergraben in the southwest includes the AOK building on the east and is adjacent to a still underutilized square area.

The site is located at the interface between medieval building structure in the north and the founding of the buildings Löbdergraben, which until the 19th Century was the place where the old city wall was built.

Client: Housing Association "Carl Zeiss" eG

Project: 2008-2011

J MAYER H Architects
Project Team: Juergen Mayer H., Jan-Christoph Stockebrand, Christoph Emenlauer, Jens Seiffert, Max Reinhard, Christian Pälmke.

Building

Design determines that the ensemble of the new building is the main idea to update the scale: of the new building with the character of the old town buildings. Thus, the grain mediates between the "coarser" buildings along the Löbdergraben and the" finer "of the marketplace. These new buildings take on different themes of the surrounding buildings and put them into a contemporary language.

Rendering

Facade

Refer the cubature of the design on design elements of the existing substance, it is the formal language of buildings but a uniquely contemporary. This idea also takes account of the facade by either in the second or third level shows the scale of the city, in the first level, however, supports the sculptural character of the draft by an abstract design.

Public Space

There are four planned buildings, which make pathways of the site possible. They occupy about half of the base, so that the remaining area can be used as a public space. T

The Sonnenhof Jena by J. MAYER H.