Laborgebäude Beuth Hochschule

The new WAL building gives Beuth University a new face in Wedding and at the same time strengthens the outdoor spaces that have developed in the heart of the campus. The 3-5-storey new building of the Wedding Advanced Laboratories (WAL) responds sensitively to the heterogeneous location with its diverse, seemingly contradictory characteristics: facing the noisy 4-lane Luxemburger Strasse in the south-east, it presents itself as a finely structured metropolitan building. It marks the main entrance to the campus in the northeast as a scaled counterpart to the existing cafeteria. A small square in the south-west showcases the existing Max Beckmann Hall and forms another entrance to the campus with the historic Beuth House. Here, the building takes up the scale of the heritage-listed Gauß House. The elongated north façade of the new laboratory and teaching building opens onto the esplanade and reinforces the existing pedestrian axis dominated by old plane trees. Here, in the immediate vicinity of the Haus Grashof and Haus Bauwesen building, is the main entrance to the WAL with laboratories for biotechnology, food technology, pharmaceutical and chemical engineering, and bioprocess engineering for a total of 1,200 students.