The Atreeum office building on Hanauer Landstrasse in Frankfurt is located in a historic commercial area with a perimeter block development of typical brick buildings.
Rethinking The Future Awards 2025
First Award | Office Building (Built)
Project Name: ATREEUM
Category: Office Building (Built)
Studio Name: MEIXNER SCHLÜTER WENDT
Project Architects: Joost Rebske, José Ortells, Kersin Sander
Design Team: Ulrich Domnick, Kevin Henkel, Felicitas Krätzner, Luca Krismeyer,
Stefan Mayer-Twiehaus, Arno Noack, Tu Quang Ly, Juan Sandoval, Mio Stojsic
Area: 26.070 m² GFA
Year: 2024
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Consultants:
KuBuS Freiraumplanung, Wetzlar (Landscape architects)
Kannemacher – Dr. Sturm + Partner, Frankfurt am Main (structural engineers)
TP-Elektroplan, Gaggenau (MEP)
Merker AG Beratende Ingenieure, Sendenhorst (MEP)
Ingenieurbüro Michielsen, Neustadt an der Weinstraße (fire protection)
Jappsen Ingenieure, Oberwesel (lifts)
ITA Ingenieurgesellschaft für technische Akustik, Wiesbaden (building physics)
Baugrundinstitut Franke-Meißner und Partner GmbH, Wiesbaden
(foundation ground expertise)
IFFT Institut für Fassadentechnik Frankfurt GmbH Karlotto Schott, Frankfurt am Main
(facade)
Dobberstein Architekten, Offenbach am Main (awarding + site management)
Leonhard Weiss Bauunternehmung, Langen (general contractor)
Client: OFB Projektentwicklung GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
Photography Credits: Lars Gruber
The aim is for the new office building to develop out of its surroundings, to fit in contextually and at the same time to create a future-proof, sustainable working environment with a new building structure that integrates nature into the living and working space.
The different existing heights of the surrounding buildings are taken up by differentiated staggered heights. This gives the sculptural structure a stepped height development that creates urban high points at the corners and at the same time enables optimized lighting of the courtyards. These courtyards are connected to the urban space by large two-storey passageways.
The building concept is based on the principle of a Moroccan riad, which forms a protective wall on the outside and lively, differentiated green atriums on the inside.
Accordingly, the outer skin of the Atreeum consists of a clinker brick façade with a minimalist opening structure that envelops and protects the building. Inside, the volume dissolves into horizontal layers. The façade is glazed and numerous balconies and roof terraces are oriented towards the inner green spaces and enable the use of these landscaped green areas.
In this respect, these green inner courtyards, balconies and roof terraces form the significant heart of the building. The roof terraces offer special recreational areas with pavilions and workspaces surrounded by greenery.
A retention and evaporation concept is also integrated into this overall concept, which creates a healthy natural microclimate in the courtyards and inside the building.
In this way, this building can make a contribution to sustainable architecture. The result is a green working oasis in an urban context.
