Veba House in Dusseldorf - Federal Germany

Abstract

Designed for offices to be let, and made up of a buried part, occupying 6,500 m² of the site, and a tower, cross-shaped plan, twelve storeys high. There are 200 parking spaces in the basement. The semibasement is occupied by part of the technical services of the house and a series of ancillary and supply quarters. Access to the building is through the ground floor, which comprises: rooms for meetings and lectures, electronic data processing installation and administrative offices. The offices to be let are distributed in the nine following floors. Finally, the coronation floor houses the remaining technical services of the building. In the main nucleus, vertical communication means have been arranged and the facilities of each floor. Construction has been performed by means of a reinforced concrete structure, with supports in the periphery of the building to leave the office areas free of obstacles. Flooring consists of ribbed slabs. Bracing against the wind is entrusted to the main nucleus, also of reinforced concrete. The building has a suitable series of technical installations, the varied range of measures adopted being worth mentioning, to achieve suitable sound-absorbing in each of the working premises.