Project Overview The doors that no one can find For about four years, Wilhelma—one of Europe’s most biodiverse zoological and botanical gardens—gutted, renovated, and completely transformed the former great ape house from the 1970s into Terra Australis. Since its opening in July 2023, eleven Australian animal species have been living here, including four koalas and…
Project Overview The Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen is the company’s historic home and the heart of its passenger car development. This is where the brand’s luxury and premium models are built, and where development and production teams work side by side on the vehicles of tomorrow. In vehicle acoustics, where even the faintest sounds are…
Project Overview 50 kilopascals. That is the explosion pressure that the doors at the Cummins facility in Herten can withstand in an emergency—specifically from the opposite side of the hinge, i.e., from the direction that is structurally less favorable. Anyone who designs pressure-resistant doors knows what this specification means: Under load, the door panel is…
Project Overview Specialty Doors for a Hospital of the Future The construction of the new Fürth Hospital is creating one of the most modern hospitals in Bavaria. Few types of buildings place such diverse—and at the same time, such uncompromising—demands on doors as a hospital: Fire safety measures must allow for the evacuation of even…
Project Overview The Munich-Stadelheim Correctional Facility is one of Germany’s largest prisons, with a history dating back to the 19th century. Day-to-day operations in the correctional system place demands on doors that are virtually unmatched in any other field of application: countless opening and closing cycles per day, constant mechanical stress, and zero tolerance for…
Project Overview The people of Wiesbaden affectionately call it the “sugar cube”: The gleaming white museum building at Wilhelmstraße 1, clad in shimmering Bethel White granite from Vermont, is the final work of Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate Fumihiko Maki, who passed away just a few days before its opening in June 2024. Inside the Reinhard…
The Challenge Customized silence for broadcast operations Bayerischer Rundfunk is consolidating key areas of its radio and television production in Munich-Freimann. In a facility where broadcasting, recording, and editing take place around the clock, room acoustics have a direct impact on program quality: even a filing cabinet slamming shut in the next room, footsteps in…
Project Overview Three protective features, one door As a University of Excellence, Dresden University of Technology ranks among Germany’s leading research institutions. Tens of thousands of people teach, conduct research, and study here, in buildings that must simultaneously meet three very different security requirements. The traditional solution would be multiple doors arranged in series. BUCHELE’s…
Project Overview Neumayer Station III The Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III is located on the Ekström Ice Shelf—which is about 200 meters thick—in Atka Bay and is the only German research station in Antarctica where people live and work year-round. Nine overwinterers spend up to 15 months here, connected to the outside world for…
Projektüberblick National Museum Qatar The National Museum of Qatar (Doha), designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, is distinguished by its striking architecture, which is inspired by the natural formation known as the “desert rose.” Buchele was part of the construction project and supplied high-quality doors and gates that combine functional safety with aesthetic appeal. Results &…
