A design competition initiated by the municipal drainage works in 2013 aimed at determining an architect for the new laboratory and office building of the sewage institute. The design by kister scheithauer gross (ksg) responds to the distinctive surroundings of the works grounds with a detached and geometric volume, which optimally exploits the triangular site. The architects were commissioned with the implementation. ?The one-storey building with a circular roof structure housing building services takes up the corporality of the technical buildings and lives up to both its function and its symbolic effect as a prominent technical building,? explains the originator of the design, Johannes Kister. 
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Architects: KSG Architekten

Location: Cologne, Germany

Area: 1700.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Yohan Zerdoun

Client: Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln AöR (StEB), Cologne

Responsible Partner: Prof. Johannes Kister

Project/Site Management: Gabriel Mörsch, Eric Mertens

Structural Engineering, Structural Physics: Ingenieurbüro für Bauwesen IBT, Eschweiler

Building Services Equipment Planning: DS-Plan ? Ingenieurgesellschaft für ganzheitliche Bauberatung und Generalfachplanung mbH, Cologne

Laboratory Planning: EUROLABORS AG, ...