Architects

Parking Garage of the Leipzig Zoo

Client: Zoo Leipzig GmbH / Location: Leipzig / GFA: 16 500 m
Completion date: 2004 / Parking spaces: 527 / Competition: 1stPrize, 2002
Award: BDA Prize of Saxony, regognition, 2004
With around 1.3 million visitors per year, the Leipzig zoo is one of the favorite animal parks in Germany. In order to provide the zoos visitors with enough
parking, a competition was held in 2002 for the design of a parking garage
with an attractive as well as economical design concept.
In a three-day workshop, the notion of a shell was chosen as a central concept. The parking garage was supposed to express a unity with the adjacent
zoo grounds. As a result, the designers sought with bamboo a facade material
that would both make reference to the exotic world of the zoo and lend the
structure a soft and haptic impression.

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HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner GmbH + Co. KG
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D 40221 Dsseldorf

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Photography: Hans Christian Schink Punctum