The basic idea of the FrankfurtHochVier shopping mall is to create a vertical city, an urban shopping street with a new element – verticality. Physical and visual connections inside the building but also to the urban landscape of Frankfurt integrate this huge project to the urban scale of the inner city of Frankfurt. The connection of the main facade with the fluid roof, a canyon with voids, is a characteristic element for the project. The emphasis of the connection builds the important entrance to the main shopping street of Frankfurt, the Zeil. It attracts people to enter the fluent interior space, which connects the Zeil with the Thurn und Taxis palace and the “Frankfurter Rundschau” area on one side, but also the ground floor with to the multi-level used retail and amusement centre. Entering deeper in the building, void systems that descend from the fourth level, bring down thelight and bring up the people. The fourth level which is directly connected with an expressway to the ground floor isbecoming a second ground-floor. It’s character is a brightly natural lit urban shopping street with an attractive leisureprogram. Distribution for functions on the fourth floor and the levels above as well as connections to the hotel and theoffice-building nearby are creating an alive and attracting level.

structure roof:
Knippers-Helbig Beratende Ingenieure, Stuttgart roof Krebs und Kiefer Beratende Ingenieure für das Bauwesen GmbH, Darmstadt.

ingeneering:
PB Berchtold Ingenieurbüro, Sarnen, CH Dörflinger + Partner Ingenieurbüro für Elektrotechnik, Erfurt HHP Berlin Ingenieurgesellschaft für Brandschutz mbH, Berlin Ingenieurbüro für Bauphysik von Rekowsky + Partner, Weinheim IFFT Institut für Fassadentechnik, K. Schott, Frankfurt Lüsebrink Ingenieure VBI, Hamburg Thomas A. Weisse + Partner, Hamburg