Brockmann office building

The property is located in a commercial area on the edge of Frankfurt’s Heddernheim district. The building makes reference to the neighboring buildings and an old walnut tree in the south of the property. The appropriate distance between the building and the street and the preservation of the large tree create a beautifully proportioned, inviting entrance situation.

The building consists of two basement floors, two upper floors and a converted attic floor. The underground levels house the underground garage, building services, numerous archive rooms and other ancillary rooms. This includes a social room on the first basement floor, whose oversized light well provides natural lighting and is used as an outdoor terrace.

The room is very popular with employees in the hot summer months because it offers pleasant temperatures in the shade of the maple tree.

The individual levels are accessed via a centrally located core zone, which takes up a fifth of the building’s depth and extends across its entire width.

The first floor and the upper floor each accommodate two 110 square meter offices facing south and north. Two individual offices for the business partners are located on the top floor, which is not a full floor according to building regulations. One of these is completely enclosed, the second is open to the tree.

The workstations are positioned along the façades. Compact shelving systems are installed in the middle of the offices, the area that tends to be darker, to cover the large amount of file material required by the surveying office, which is now in its fourth generation.

The building is clad on three sides with metal panels.

The south-facing façade is completely glazed. It opens up the house to the street and at the same time highlights the beautiful walnut tree. While the south-facing rooms are protected from direct sunlight by external metal slats, fabric blinds flush with the façade on the east and west façades provide adequate sun protection.