Mab Zeil Projekt
The basic idea of the FrankfurtHochVier shopping mall is to create a vertical city, an urban shopping street with a
new element - verticality. Physical and visual connections inside the building but also to the urban landscape of
Frankfurt integrate this huge project to the urban scale of the inner city of Frankfurt.
The connection of the main facade with the fluid roof, a canyon with voids, is a characteristic element for the
project.
The emphasis of the connection builds the important entrance to the main shopping street of Frankfurt, the Zeil. It
attracts people to enter the fluent interior space, which connects the Zeil with the Thurn und Taxis palace and the
“Frankfurter Rundschau” area on one side, but also the ground floor with to the multi-level used retail and
amusement centre. Entering deeper in the building, void systems that descend from the fourth level, bring down
thelight and bring up the people. The fourth level which is directly connected with an expressway to the ground
floor isbecoming a second ground-floor. It’s character is a brightly natural lit urban shopping street with an
attractive leisureprogram. Distribution for functions on the fourth floor and the levels above as well as connections
to the hotel and theoffice-building nearby are creating an alive and attracting level.
structure roof:
Knippers-Helbig Beratende Ingenieure, Stuttgart
roof Krebs und Kiefer Beratende Ingenieure für das Bauwesen GmbH,
Darmstadt.
ingeneering:
PB Berchtold Ingenieurbüro, Sarnen, CH
Dörflinger + Partner Ingenieurbüro für Elektrotechnik, Erfurt
HHP Berlin Ingenieurgesellschaft für Brandschutz mbH, Berlin
Ingenieurbüro für Bauphysik von Rekowsky + Partner, Weinheim
IFFT Institut für Fassadentechnik, K. Schott, Frankfurt
Lüsebrink Ingenieure VBI, Hamburg
Thomas A. Weisse + Partner, Hamburg
