Bosch Center at Feuerbach (Borsigareal), Stuttgart

Development, public space, building-related use areas in the inner courtyard, large-scale roof greening for a service and training centre.

Block 7 in the Borsigareal was one of the first projects to be realized in the course of the conversion and modernization of the extensive commercial areas in Feuerbach.
Complex spatial and technical conditions as well as different, partly conflicting demands of the users made a solution seem impossible at the beginning. After many variants, the public street spaces, the roof areas and the central inner courtyard could finally be realized according to a concept that corresponds to the company:
Simple, but not simplistic. Striking, but not fashionable. Usable.

The streets framing the block are planted with rows of trees, in keeping with the exposure and facades of the buildings. The large roof areas on the technical floor are extensively greened, small and winding areas are only covered with gravel and visible roof areas on the first floor are intensively greened. The design goal was to visually expand the narrow inner courtyard and to integrate the roofs into its image. In the longitudinal courtyard, the core of the open space, a shallow water basin lies parallel to the path. The water basin has a hard, straight edge towards the path, but towards the building it shows a softly swinging shoreline, which is connected by continuous planting areas. Two large terraces are integrated in front of the auditorium and café, connecting wide platforms across the water to the path at the same level. Groups of tall growing bamboo and solitary ornamental cherry trees divide the narrow inner courtyard visually and spatially, evergreen hedge strips of boxwood as well as lilac and snowball create small-scale forecourts assigned to the individual parts of the building. Two rectangular lawn tables with May cherries (Prunus yedonensis) mark the transitions from the street to the courtyard space and give it its spatial conclusion.