GE Additive | 3D Campus Lichtenfels
Winner
Excellent Architecture
Architecture
Details
The 42,300 m² GE Additive Lichtenfels 3D Campus of the major corporation General Electric was planned + built by Schmelzle+Partner mbB Architekten BDA from 2017 to 2021. The 113,416 m² site is located in the Upper Franconian valley in the midst of an archaeologically significant landscape, surrounded by the Vierzehnheiligen basilica, the Banz monastery, and the Staffelberg mountain. The new global centre for additive industry is 420 m long, 95 m wide and has space for 700 employees.
The Jury‘s Statement
With a length of more than 400 m and a width of 95 m, the GE Additive | 3D Campus Lichtenfels presents itself in a self-confident size, yet appears friendly open and transparent from the outside as well as from the inside due to the almost complete glazing.
