Chipperfield Building Novartis Campus Basel
The Chipperfield Building, a laboratory and office building on the Novartis Campus in Basel, has a rectangular layout and is 55 m in length and 30 m in width.
Two cores and a host of façade columns form the vertical load-bearing elements. A system of prestressed beams placed between the cores makes a column-free floor slab zone possible on five floors that is 27 m in length and 30 m in width. The façade is part of the supporting structure and consists of prefabricated concrete columns and beams. Cracked marble was used as a supplement. The cores are dimensioned such that they can absorb the forces caused by earthquake tremors. The supporting structure thus meets the requirements for Building Class II property located in a seismically very demanding Earthquake Zone 3a.
DEVELOPMENT PERIOD
2006 to 2008
CLIENT
Novartis Pharma AG, Basel
ARCHITECTURE
David Chipperfield Architects, Berlin
FUNCTION WITHIN PROJECT
Planning for the foundation pit (with groundwater lowering, underpinning and shoring of foundation pit), foundation (mixed piled raft foundation) and the supporting structure.
CATEGORY
Construction
PICTURES 1 – 4
Ulrich Schwarz, Berlin