Humboldt University – Department of Physics

The Lise Meitner House is home to the Physics Institute of Humboldt University and is located in Germany's most modern technology park in Berlin-Adlershof. The institute's research activities focus on elementary particle physics, macromolecules, photonics and solid state physics.

Completed in 2003 as a new four-storey building, the institute is designed as a complex laboratory building and offers standard laboratories, offices and teaching rooms as well as a large number of special laboratories. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the listed buildings of the German Aerospace Centre.

With its rectangular floor plan, it blends into the street grid of the overall urban development plan. According to the architectural firm, its four independent exterior sides are intended to reflect the special features of their respective locations.

The north-facing façade is completely clad with LAMBERTS LINIT®EcoGlass. Its upper three floors cantilever over the first floor and are supported by round concrete pillars. Behind the glass shell, precast concrete elements create a texture of closed and opaque surfaces, which is particularly visible when the building is backlit. The pearl structure of the profiled glass scatters daylight into the interior and illuminates the corridors behind.