Headquarter ESO Munich

The extension of the ESO headquarters respects both the green belt to the South of the research campus and the extrovert nature of the existing main building. In line with the latter’s design language, the new building is based on circular segments, housing offices, seminar rooms, a lecture hall and a conference room, and it seems to float above the landscape without pillars. The circular, two-storey technical building with its large assembly hall is immediately adjacent. 

Services Wenzel + Wenzel: Cost Planning, Tendering, Award of contracts

Client: ESO European Southern Observatory European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

Design: Auer Weber Assoziierte GmbH, Stuttgart

Award: AIT-Award 2014 – honourable mention

Project data:
period of performance: 2010 – 2012
gross room volume: ca. 51,400 m³
gross floor area: ca. 13,100 m²
costs: confidentially

Copyright:
Photos: © Roland Halbe
Text: © Auer Weber Assoziierte GmbH, Stuttgart