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University Muesmatt Bern

Entrance area
View from the garden
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
Basement Floor
Basement Floor
Laboratory Floor
Laboratory Floor
Cross and long sections
Cross and long sections
Section
Section
Detail section and elevation
Detail section and elevation
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Location: Bern
Competition 2021

Berrel Kräutler Architekten AG
Maurice Berrel
Competition: Giulio Branca, Lukas Burkhard, Sandra Ihasz, Stasia Kremer

Project participants
Client: Amt für Grundstücke und Gebäude des Kantons Bern
Landscape architecture: Bryum GmbH
Construction engineer: Dr. Neven Kostic
HVAC engineer: Gruenberg+Partner AG
Electric Planner: SSE Engineering
Construction physicist: Kuster+Partner
Laboratory planning: Dr. Heinekamp Labor-+Institutsplanung
Fire Protection Planner: HKG Consulting
Visualisisations: maaars

0279University Muesmatt Bern

On the Muesmatt campus, archi­tecturally high-quality buildings are combined to form a large, well-functioning organism. It has, however, recently become apparent that the existing buildings can no longer meet the changed requirements of contemporary university operations. A new heart should help the complex to an unhindered future; a central core at which the available forces of the campus can come together, find support and mutually recharge each other. 

The placement of the elongated building in the centre of the provided space generates a profitable solution for all sides. A wide esplanade will be developped to the north of the building. As a counterpart, a recessed framed garden is to be created to the south. Along the Freiestrasse, three volumes separated by narrow passages are planned as replacement buildings.