German Aerospace Center :envihab

The institute uses various medical research modules to investigate the effects of weightlessness on the human body.

The architects developed a reduced, abstract exterior. The :envihab appears as a floating disk above the slightly raised, uniformly formulated topography. The slope does not appear artificial, but blends in with its natural surroundings.



Only the entrances stand out as incisions in the slope. The embankments are sown with a colorful flowering meadow mixture, small-crowned ornamental shrubs planted in groups are loosely distributed across the slope.



Inside, the various laboratory and usage modules are freely arranged on one level according to a house-in-house principle. The long, narrow atriums with impressive arrangements of large and small boulders structure this differentiated access system: as if to remind us that we are still on earth.