ABSTRACT
Staying in Germany, but moving southwards by a couple of degrees of latitude to a greenfield site in the Bavarian city of Wurzburg, this 3024m2 floor area office was built for Gotz GmbH. This German company manufactures, inter alia, curtain wall cladding systems, so it is to be expected that the building would incorporate their most advanced thinking and products; particularly given that it was intended to house the ∼110 staff of the company's sales, administrative and design departments. The square plan building (Figures6.1and6.2) has two storeys above ground, a central atrium (also square in plan) and a partial basement. The roof of the atrium and all four façades are completely glazed, the latter having a double-skin construction. The building was completed in 1995 ( Detail, 1997; Miles, 1996).
