Eurogate Building No. 13, block 2 and 3, Hamburg

South-eastern facade existing building no. 13 Client: Container Terminal Hamburg GmbH, member of the EUROGATE-group Construction Costs: ca. 5,9 Mio € Services: Design, tender documents, site supervision Period: 2006 - 2009

The Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg GmbH currently operates 7 berthing places for ships with container bridges. The existing two storey interchange-building at the Zellmannstrasse is used for processing the truck-container delivery and collection. Directly attached to the interchange-building (block 1) is another two storey operating building (block 2) that contains supply rooms and offices on the ground floor, and changing rooms on the top floor. Both buildings were built in 2004; an addition of storeys for the future development was already considered.

Because of the rearrangement of the terminal area (extension of the berthing places and terminal area), several office- and operations buildings had to be taken away. These buildings are replaced and expanded by the addition of storeys to the operations building 13.
The two existing floors of the operating building block 2 are built using modular construction. The additions of storeys, on block 2, are carried on using modular architecture. It contains besides a canteen on the third floor, for the most part offices. The overall increase of effective area in block 2, through the expansion, is approximately 2600 square metres.

The building 13 is together with block 3 expanded in conventional architecture and consists of 5 floors. The whole support structure of the construction is built using solid architecture. In block 3 there are four storeys for offices planned, on the third floor the canteen is extended with staffrooms. The overall effective area of block 3 is approximately 3000 square metres.

The constructions of the facade for both building segments are accomplished using light construction. One part is made of colour coated metal- and panel elements and the other part is made of zinc-plate elements which is a continuation of the existing facades.

The existing pedestrian bridge Dradenau, which joins the employees parking area with the terminal area, is expanded to block 3 of the building 13 throughout the building proposal.