Bosch Center at Feuerbach (Borsigareal), Stuttgart

Development, public space, building-related usage areas in the inner courtyard, large-scale green roofs for a service and training center.

Block 7 in the Borsigareal was one of the first projects to be realized as part of the conversion and modernization of the extensive commercial areas in Feuerbach.

Complex spatial and technical conditions as well as different, sometimes conflicting user requirements initially made a solution seem impossible. After many variants, the public street spaces, the roof areas and the central inner courtyard were ultimately realized according to a concept that corresponds to the company:

Simple, but not simplistic. Striking, but not fashionable. Usable.



The streets framing the block are planted with rows of trees to match the exposure and facades of the buildings. The large roof areas on the technical floor are extensively greened, small and angled areas are only covered with gravel and visible roof areas on the second floor are intensively greened. The design objective was to visually extend the narrow inner courtyard and integrate the roofs into its appearance. In the longitudinal inner courtyard, the heart of the open space, there is a shallow water basin parallel to the path. It has a hard, continuous straight bank edge towards the path, but a softly curving shoreline towards the building, which is bordered by continuous planting areas. Two large terraces are integrated into this in front of the auditorium and café, which connect wide platforms across the water at the same level as the path. Groups of high-growing bamboo and solitary ornamental cherry trees divide the narrow inner courtyard visually and spatially, while evergreen hedge strips of box and lilac and snowball create small-scale forecourts assigned to the individual parts of the building. Two rectangular lawn tables with May cherries (Prunus yedonensis) mark the transitions from the street to the courtyard and give it its spatial conclusion.