Otto Bock by Gnadinger Architekten

Otto Bock is health care exhibition center in Berlin. Gnadinger Architekten finished the design of this building. the approach of the design is courageous step within Berlins rigid public design policy, which advocates regular geometries and the use of stone and glass.

Keeping an adequate distance to the neighboring buildings the over- all building plan follows the irregular shape of the lot. Six floors with a total of 1.300 square meters (3,900 sq.ft.) provide public exhibition and consultation spaces. The diamond shaped floors are enclosed by an irregularly curved expressive aluminium-glass facade. Based on the idea of human muscle sections Gna?dinger designed abstract, amorphous white aluminium facade panels.

The first three floor as exhibition space with interactive and realistic presentations and simulations of the technically most advanced orthopedic products. The other exhibition floors provide seminar and conference rooms as well as spaces for consultations between patients, doctors, therapists and orthopedic technicians. Gna?dinger’s vision was an integration of the highly developed aesthetics in industrial design with the requirements of medical technology into a lively total building design.

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