Technology Center For Aviation And Aerospace, Wildau
The Centre for Aviation and Space Technology in Wildau was designed as one single aerodynamic body. Located near Schönefeld Airport, Berlin, the building contains technology of the highest standard. It is here that Rolls Royce develop and test their aircraft engines in high-tech test stands simulating all possible flight and height conditions. In addition, students of Wildau Technical College may also gain practical experience here. All appliances and its various complex installations are amalgamated under a silver streamline aluminium shell.
Thanks to inserted glass structures guiding the light deep into the office levels the building is far from being a hermetic monolith, but rather represents a lively focus of movement and communication. Unexploited industrial land has thus successfully been revitalised and has gained unique visible prominence by three mighty turbine hall exhaust towers at the back of the building.
The industrial design idea has been developed from the image of an ergonomically shaped CD player and not from images of aviation technology it self. The structure smoothly merges into its old industrial environment and
gradually rises up to the adjacent light railway line linking Berlin with Dresden. In the centre of the building a small hidden park provides a green and calm place for the recreation of all staff.
Local, interregional and transnational movements meet in harmony and merge into a corporeal and spatial continuum.
