The IBA Basel Expo opens on May 13 on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. Find out more about the exhibition, IBA Basel 2020 and the specialist publication.

After a year of waiting, the IBA Basel Expo exhibition finally opens on May 13, 2021. Find out more about the exhibition on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, the conclusion of IBA Basel 2020 and the bilingual specialist publication.

Although the incidence rate in the district of Lörrach is currently below 100 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, this was not the case on the planned opening day of the IBA Basel Expo, May 1, 2021. At that time, the federal emergency brake, which lasts until June 30, 2021, was active. The federal regulations state that museums and cultural venues – just like the Dome on the Vitra Campus, the German exhibition venue of IBA Basel Expo – are not allowed to open if the incidence value exceeds 100. This changes as soon as the incidence value in the relevant district is below 100 for five consecutive days. This is how the German government is trying to contain the coronavirus in Germany.

But now the time has finally come: the exhibition will be open from May 13, 2021. And the icing on the cake: Visiting the exhibition is free of charge.

Visitors can initially only view the exhibition during the opening hours of the Vitra Campus by registering in advance with a time slot. You can register for a visit here.
The organizers also ask visitors arriving from abroad to check and observe the current regulations for entering Germany on a daily basis. In addition, hygiene rules apply on site, such as wearing a medical mask/FFP2 mask and observing social distancing.

“We are delighted that we can now open the exhibition and hope that it will remain open to visitors until the planned last day of the exhibition, June 6, 2021,” explains IBA Managing Director Monica Linder-Guarnaccia. The joy is all the greater when you consider that the exhibition has already been postponed. The IBA Basel Expo “Crossing Borders Together” shows how innovative ways of crossing borders can create new spaces of experience for the population. In addition, the IBA Basel model projects can be experienced, and learning processes, formats and actors become tangible. Newly created connections and spaces will thus become visible across borders.
Further information and notes on the IBA Basel Expo “Crossing Borders Together” can be found here.

IBA Basel Expo – May 1 to June 6, 2021
Dome, Vitra Campus
Charles-Eames-Strasse 2
D-79576 Weil am Rhein

The International Building Exhibition IBA Basel 2020 celebrates its conclusion with the IBA Basel Expo. Garten + Landschaft provided information online about the projects, their creators and goals during the IBA Basel period. The final findings of the first cross-border International Building Exhibition in the border triangle of Germany, France and Switzerland have been used in collaboration with those responsible for IBA Basel 2020 to produce the specialist publication “IBA Basel 2020. Crossing borders together” in German and French, which is well worth reading. Our colleagues at Baumeister are also celebrating its completion: A Baumeister special issue on IBA Basel 2020 was published in May.

The Merck Innovation Center in Darmstadt gives ideas and promising innovation projects space to develop. The cubic structure, designed by the Henn architectural firm, has a dynamic interior with two office areas arranged in diagonally opposite corners. Bridge-like ramps and staircases connect these working zones, which are staggered floor by floor, with oval central access cores – creating a flowing space. Spans of up to 20 metres make it possible to reduce the interior to just four columns; these are almost dematerialized with polished stainless steel shells. Meeting, telephone and interpreter rooms are arranged along the outer façade.

Frameless, flush “Fecostruct” glass walls from Feco Feederle create maximum transparency with high sound insulation. Natural sunlight has a positive effect deep inside the building. The two-storey interior façade facing the office landscape is designed with the “Fecoplan” all-glass construction to prevent falls without vertical stud profiles. On the first floor, visitors are guided along the curved Fecostruct glass wall of the large auditorium to the reception area. A café, a lounge, a library and a workshop complete the space on offer.

With the glass structure, Merck is presenting itself openly and transparently to the outside world on the occasion of the company’s 350th anniversary. The successful LEED Gold certification documents the company’s own commitment to the sustainable use of resources.

feco Systeme GmbH
Am Storrenacker 22
76139 Karlsruhe
https://www.feco.de/feco-feederle-gmbh/

Photo: Nikolay Kazakov