Matthias Schuler
Adjunct Professor
Department of Architecture

 


Publications
 

Merck Serono: Geneva
by Jahn Helmut, Werner Sobek, Matthias Schuler, Christian Marquart
Avedition (May 2008)

n the year 2002 the planning team Murphy/Jahn Architects (Chicago), Werner Sobek Ingenieure (Stuttgart) and Transsolar (Stuttgart) won an international competition announced by the Pharmaceutical Concern Merck Serono for the new development of a research and administration centre in Geneva. The brief included a communicative atmosphere, architectonic- constructive elegance and innovative solutions in facade and climate technology. In addition, several buildings of historical value were to be integrated into the design. A spectacular feature is the large curved atrium glass roof which opens up by almost 5 meters in good weather. The book offers a description of the project and its development both from a corporate culture aspect and from the perspective of the architect Helmut Jahn, the civil engineer Prof. Dr. Werner Sobek, the climate expert Prof. Matthias Schuler and the critic Christian Marquart.



Suvarnabhumi Airport: Bangkok, Thailand
by Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek, Matthias Schuler
Avedition (September 30, 2007)

Airports today are a new building type. They have become a strange combination of transportation centre and shopping mall. Like in a city the experience leads through squares, streets and rooms for transportation, commerce and private uses. At Suvarnabhumi Airport innovative and integrated architectural structural and environmental design were used, new materials and systems of advanced technology were developed. The result is a building flooded with controlled daylight in a tropical climate. After eleven years of planning and construction the terminal was opened for passenger traffic in Setpember 2006. Helmut Jahn is leader of the famous architectural firm Murphy / Jahn, based in Chicago. Founded over 70 years ago, Murphy / Jahn has created many notable projects in the United States / Europe, including Chicago O’Hare International Airport, United Airlines Terminal One Complex, Sony Center, Berlin and Post Tower, Bonn, Germany.



Glass Construction Manual
by Christian Schittich, Gerald Staib, Dieter Balkow, Matthias Schuler, Werner Sobek
Birkhäuser Basel; 2nd, revised and expanded ed. edition (July 20, 2007)

Glass offers a wide variety of possible applications for the realization of even the most ambitious designs in architecture, and in the past two decades it has experienced an unparalleled burst of innovation. For planners, this means working constantly with this high-performance material. In compact and appealing form, the completely revised Glass Construction Manual presents the current state of the art on planning and building with glass, from the history through the technical foundations all the way to the most innovative applications. Astonishing perspectives on thermal insulation and solar protection and the addition of thoughtfully selected new practical examples round off this comprehensive reference work.



Bayer Konzernzentrale Headquarters: Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek, Matthias Schuler
(Hardcover) - German
by Werner Blaser; A. Blauhut; J. Amri
Princeton Architectural Press, 2003

Das reprAsentative Erscheinungsbild, die innovative GebAudetechnik, die FunktionalitAt und die Transparenz als Sinnbild fA1/4r einen weltoffenen Konzern - diese Kriterien gaben den Ausschlag dafA1/4r, dass sich die Bayer AG 1998 fA1/4r einen Entwurf von Helmut Jahn zum Neubau der Konzernzentrale entschied. Das viergeschossige Bauwerk stellt ein weitgeAffnetes halbes Oval dar, das sich mit einer langen transparenten Pergola harmonisch in den Carl-Duisberg-Park einfA1/4gt. Die neue Konzernzentrale ist als Stahlbetontragwerk konzipiert, in welchem fA1/4r die Heizung und KA1/4hlung die Niedrigenergie-Eigenschaften von Wasser und die thermische SpeicherfAhigkeit von Beton genutzt werden. Ein weiteres Highlight des GebAudes aus Akologischer Sicht ist die zweischalige transparente Fassade, mit der betrAchtliche Energiemengen zum Temperieren der RAume eingespart werden kAnnen.



Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek, Matthias Schuler - Architecture Engineering
by Werner Blaser
Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (September 26, 2002)

The buildings of Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek and Matthias Schuler represent a symbiotic collaboration between architecture, engineering and building technology. This innovative team has taken up the challenge of turning optimum technical solutions into intelligent and resource-saving constructions, creating internationally acclaimed architecture of the very highest technical and aesthetical quality: "Modern buildings make the highest demands of technology. And it is not the architect who fulfils them but the engineer" (Helmut Jahn) This volume documents in detail a large number of recent projects in Europe, the USA and Asia by Jahn, Sobek and Schuler including the European Union Headquarters in Charlemagne, the Sony Centre in Berlin, office buildings for the Deutsche Post in Bonn, Shanghai International Expo Centre, Bishopsgate (London), MANN (Chicago), New Bangkok International Airport, Illinois Institute of Technology Campus Center, and Shenzhen Convention and Exhibit Center.