A delivery center with a customer lounge was added to the existing main building of MAN Truck & Bus AG in Plauen. Using an organic design language, flowing, representative rooms were designed that serve to welcome customers and lead to the newly designed delivery hall.

Two of the existing four delivery areas were closed down to accommodate the customer lounge on the ground floor.

In order to make the most complex possible use of the available space, a gallery level was added to the rear of the newly created reception area. The lower level contains the technical and sanitary rooms as well as a master's office. A consultation room with an adjacent sample room was created on the gallery level.

The installation of the new reception area was accompanied by renovation work in the façade area. The strongly structured glass façade with various projections and recesses and functionally questionable vestibule constructions was dismantled and replaced by a new, straight-lined post-and-beam façade.

Reconstruction of the ground floor of the MAN main building in Plauen

Categories: Industrial, Interior, Structural
Client: MAN Truck & Bus AG - Bus Modification Center Plauen

Design: Hendrik Heine | Dirk Söllner

Services: Object planning for buildings Lph 2 – 8, object planning for technical equipment, Lph 2 – 8, structural planning, thermal insulation, fire protection
Project partner: Dirk Söllner, Limbach/Vogtland
Start of performance: 2015
Completion: 2016

Publications: Annual calendar of the Saxony Chamber of Architects 2019; German Architects' Gazette 12-2019