In the heterogeneous surroundings not far from the railway station, a new office was built as an innovative timber hybrid building for a Tübingen housing company, which expresses the company's aim to be a sustainable player in the city in terms of urban space, while offering its employees a pleasant working atmosphere on the inside. The timber hybrid building rises up to four storeys.

The GWG wanted to see a future-proof building realised that would facilitate a modern working atmosphere conducive to communication and express the company's socially and ecologically responsible attitude at a prominent location in the city. In this heterogeneous environment, the façade structure and storey heights deliberately seek a relationship to the new buildings on the Güterbahnhof site.

The interior of the building is bright and transparent, but spatially clearly defined, straightforward and clear. The supporting structure and shell are based on a consistent, clear geometric order and few, consciously and comprehensibly used materials. Even if architectural associations such as the Association of German Architects (BDA) in Germany are now calling for architecture to increasingly operate without new construction, there will always be reasons for the new construction of buildings. The new building for a majority municipal enterprise is certainly one of them.

Here, a branch of the city demonstrates its claim to representativeness and sustainability in the service of society in equal measure: Not with grand gestures, as was customary a few years ago, but through a building that is architectural understatement and structural statement in equal measure. A city building that mediates between the different time periods of the site and yet is self-confident, making it clear that it is new and yet wants to be part of the grown urban structure.

This urban understatement is paired with the architectural statement of precision in the choice and composition of materials, which, through the use of wood, is also superficially recognisable as a sustainable contribution to the pressing problems of our time. With the exception of the central cores for vertical access and the basement, the entire building is constructed in prefabricated timber construction. Supports made of beech and prefabricated ribbed ceilings in wood-concrete composite construction determine the appearance of the rooms for the most part.

A resource-saving and carbon-neutral construction method in wood and the compact building volume ensure a high overall economy in both construction and operation. The naturally left wooden surfaces of the supporting structure, partition walls and façade, as well as the industrial parquet flooring made of solid ash, create a friendly, pleasant working and room climate, take GWG's ecological understanding into account and translate it into contemporary architecture.