EGNATON Working-Group Building System Engineering and Architecture
Konrad Kreuzer, Waldner, Inc.
The first step in economic construction consists of integrating typology and technology in the draught well. For this part of economic construction, highly installed functional unities in the whole space program must be defined and rooms with different demands must be joined sensibly. Principles of zoning and stacking must be considered, and decisions on grid, shafts, routes, story heights, and the location of the technology rooms must be made.
This presentation will examine the assumption that a condition for future-oriented research buildings with figure quality is a typologically optimized integration of technical (building services) and architectural interests.
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) is a German charitable research organization. It consists of 80 institutes and approximately 70,000 employees. MPG is interested in benchmarking and best practices to keep its technical competence up-to-date.
An important part of keeping up-to-date is the building typology of MPG projects. But research construction projects worldwide must also be considered, especially because the MPG has a very high proportion of international scientists. MPG must understand from where those scientists' architectural examples and experiences come. MPG has also cooperated with EGNATON on the analysis of 25 MPG research constructions since 1985 and approximately 70 international projects. Features of the analyses include:
Arrangement type:
- Linear systems
- Comb systems
- Core systems
Arrangement design conception:
- Context
- Zoning
- Communication
- Form
Anticipated future developments include responses to tight budgets, acceleration of all processes, multidisciplinary approaches, international cooperation and transparency, benchmarking, and energy efficiency (i.e., "good old construction physics").
The international world of science will increasingly demand a multidisciplinary, scientific-experimental research institute. More than ever, a competent client demands core competence in typology and building system engineering. Therefore, MPG proposes to furnish an EGNATON working group focusing on building system engineering and architecture. Specialized topics to be considered by the working group include:
- Benchmarking
- Typology changes for precision laboratories
- Application possibilities for regenerative energy
- Concepts for data centres
- Arrangements of mouse facilities
- Typology changes from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB)/LEED®/Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREAM)
- Open laboratories
- Air quality and temperature in offices
- Laboratory manual energy efficiency