Neubau der Kultur- und Gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Salzburg

The new building for the Faculty of Cultural & Social Sciences of the University of Salzburg — A remarkable building with an exceptional supporting structure.

Due to its prominent and provocative architecture as well as because of the difficult ground conditions the new building for the Faculty of Cultural & Social Sciences (KGW) of the University of Salzburg becomes a building that requires the highest standards for the development and reali zation of the static superstructure, which is worth to mention.
The most different design and functional requirements of the building call for component-specific answers which had to be tackled early in the design and to be assessed regarding their economics.
The design-related extensive clearance of the middle floors from supporting elements requires the construction of large-span supporting structures in the upper floors leaving only limited space to achieve static heights.
Contrary to that, the immense acting forces of the upper floors had to be distributed through large-span foundations and transferred into the inadequate loadbearing ground.