Structure as a Filter
The district town of Waiblingen extends into the north-eastern reaches of the Stuttgart metropolitan region. Set within this complex urban fabric, the project is embedded in a highly stratified environment with residential areas, commercial structures and transport corridors tightly interwoven.
The car park occupies a transitional condition in terms of urbanism and atmosphere. The building volume is positioned along the southern edge of a newly developed residential estate, where it serves as a spatial and environmental filter against noise and emissions from the eight-lane federal highway B14. The architectural challenge lay in accommodating a maximum number of parking spaces within a highly constrained footprint, without compromising the clarity of the structural system.
The basement level, built in reinforced concrete, forms an earth-anchored foundation. Above it, a clearly articulated skeletal structure of spruce timber unfolds, with columns, beams and floor slabs establishing a rhythmic supporting framework. The monolithic circulation core and the concrete ramps contrast with the stringent timber structure, accentuating the sculptural quality of the volume. Thus a utilitarian building emerges that reveals its constructive logic and translates timber as a renewable resource into a coherent tectonic order.
