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Center for Production Engineering

Center for Production Engineering
Office Mesnaritsch, Graz (model), Gernot Angerer (rendering), Peter Kröll (rendering)

Center for Production Engineering of the Technical University Graz

The ensemble consists of compact, strictly geometrical buildings. Its arrangement is continuing the character of the existing campus and generating outside areas with squares and paths as well as a variety of visual connections.


A seven-story cube with a four-story building at its back marks the entrance to the campus of the technical university in an emblematic way. With an edge length of 33 meters the directionless cube is the stabilizing element in a heterogeneous neighborhood.


Together with a new public square, it serves as a frame for the gateway of the entire campus. A lower, quadratic building forms the midpoint of the new complex, followed by a row of buildings in the south, which are closing the area to the bordering housing area. The closure of this row forms a four-story pentagonal building.


The gross floor area for all buildings is app. 30.000 sqm. Four of these buildings are used for research and education purposes, one as an in-house day-care center (for family members of students and employees of the university) and one for commercial use. The building costs for the first four buildings (around 20.000sqm) are app. 35 million €.


The outside appearance will be glossy and sharp-edged, the façade a metal skin with flush window stripes of alternating heights. The inner circulation of the faculty buildings consists of central halls with skylights, extending either to full height or several stories of the buildings. Located on the green roofs are recreation areas with wooden terraces. The day-care center features additional outside areas in form of wooden terraces on each level.

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