Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Herzog & de Meuron

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Architect: Designed in: 2001-2004
• Herzog & de Meuron Built in: 2007 – 2016
• Jacques Herzog
Height: 110m
• Pierre De Meuron
Length: 125.90m
• Ascan Mergenthaler
Floors: 26
Structural Engineer:
Land Area: 10.540m2
Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG, Hochtief Solutions
AG Floor Area: 5.600m2
Acoustic Engineer: Nagata Acoustics Inc, Yasuhisa
Toyota Built-up Area: 120.383m2

Construction Company: Adamanta Grundstücks- Cost: 875 million euros

Vermietungsgesellschaft mbH & Co
Location: Platz der Deutschen Einheit 1, 20457
Construction Manager: Ascan Mergenthaler Hamburg, Germany
MATERIALS
• Steel used during construction of the Elbphilharmonie: 18,000 t
• Concrete used: 63,000 cu. M

12,000 cu. m foundations,

51,000 cu. m shell,
2/3 exposed concrete
Crystal facade
1,100 curved panels
Weight of each glass element: 1.2 tons
Height: 3m
Width: 4*5m
The roof of the building was reinforced and
waterproofed in August 2014.
The windows are marked with small gray basalt
reflective dots to prevent the structure from getting
warm in the sunlight while creating a bright effect
that changes as you capture different reflections.
Most of the glass panels were formed separately
with millimetric precision at 600 ° C.
In quality control tests, glass panels easily withstand
winds of up to 150 km / h and torrential downpours.
White skin
The walls of the concert hall are covered by a
“white skin” composed of extremely heavy and
high density gypsum fiber panels reflecting the
sound that is directed and dispersed by the
innumerable shell-shaped depressions,
ensuring that the acoustics In the great hall is
perfect. It consists of a total of 10,000 panels of
gypsum fiber composed of a mixture of natural
gypsum and recycled paper.
The white skin was developed by the architects,
in close collaboration with the acoustic
Yasuhisa Toyota, experts in fire safety, and the
manufacturing company Peuckert.
The walls and the ceiling are united and appear
as a single piece of skin of 6.500m2.
Kaispeicher A
It was almost completely destroyed in WW II, the
Kaiserspeicher was detonated in 1963. In 1966 the
Kaispeicher A was erected on the same site, based on a
design by Werner Kollmorgen. Cocoa, tea, and tobacco
were stored here until the 1990s. With the rise in container
transport, however, the warehouse dwindled in
significance and ultimately stood empty.
Level of the ground floor raised by 3 m for the new
Elbphilharmonie structure
Ground floor 8.50 m above sea level
Pile foundations: 1,745
Retrospective reinforced-concrete pile foundations
(supplementing the 1,111 existing piles beneath
Kaispeicher A): 634
Depth of the in situ concrete piles: Approx. 15 m
The Roof Structure
Area: 6,200 sq. m
Number of roof sections: 8
Weight: Approx. 700 t total
Number of steel girders for the whole roof: Approx. 1,000
girders
Each girder is unique and made from sheet steel, a 3D design
Roof sequins: Safe to walk on, aluminium panels, deep-
drawn perforations, polyester powder coating
- Quantity: Approx. 5,800
- Diameter: 0.9–1.1 m
- Material area: 4,160–4,727 sq. m
- Perforations: 11–15 mm