Berlin-based studio Wulf Architekten has unveiled a dark-blue police station wrapped in bands of brass home windows within the Bavarian metropolis of Passau, Germany.
Organized round two courtyards, Wulf Architekten designed the constructing to have a transparent id as a contemporary police station.
“The core idea was to realize a constructing with a transparent, sturdy, but elegant design, whose look wouldn’t be disturbed by the automobiles parked round it,” mentioned Wulf Architekten founder Tobias Wulf.
“The suitable look for a contemporary police station is proven with a transparent architectural language, offered in its strict structural grid within the facade,” he informed Dezeen.
The constructing was designed to accommodate 5 departments of the Bavarian State Police – police inspection, felony investigation with a brand new cybercrime division, border police inspection, central emergency providers and technical emergency providers – at a single location.
It was fashioned round two courtyards with a taller, four-storey workplace block, which accommodates the lined entrance, set alongside a decrease block that’s wrapped across the safe automotive park.
“The lager courtyard serves to accommodate the automobiles that we need to cover from the skin,” mentioned Wulf.
“The opposite courtyard brings mild to the middle, filling the rooms dealing with in direction of it with pure mild.”
As a nod in direction of conventional police colors, the studio select blue blaster for the outside, which was mixed with brass-coloured window frames to present the constructing a particular look.
“We selected blue to be the predominant color of the constructing however in a barely extra refined shade because the constructing could be very giant,” mentioned Wulf.
“The horizontal, midnight blue facade with its vertically grooved plaster, together with the continual brass-coloured window ribbons, create the attribute look of the constructing in a sustainable but elegant method.”
Throughout the police station Wulf Architekten aimed to create a “reserved look”, with the constructing’s concrete construction left uncovered and paired with pure timber doorways and fittings.
The constructing’s police cells have been solely completed with pale blue tiles.
Set alongside the principle police station, the studio designed a stand-alone customer parking storage that additionally accommodates a canteen.
Based by Wulf in 1987, Wulf Architekten was has workplaces in Stuttgart, Berlin and Basel. It beforehand designed a hearth station in Straubenhardt and a sports activities centre in Überlingen with a zig-zagging roof knowledgeable by the alps.
The pictures is by Brigida González.
Tasks credit:
Shopper: Bavarian State Ministry of the Inside, for Sport and Integration and Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Constructing and Transport, represented by the Passau State Constructing Authority
Building administration: Aidenberger Architekten
Structural planning: Bollinger + Grohmann
Constructing physics: BBI Ingenieure
Panorama planning: Peter Kitzmüller
