The climate in the Nuremberg Prisma

The whole roof area of the complex feeds directly into a water cistern.

The glass building creates a pleasant atmosphere within the city centre. Waterwalls and luxuriant vegetation create a healthy atmosphere full of natural light.

When architect Frank Lloyd Wright built the famous ‘Fallingwater’ house in the hilly countryside of Pennsylvania he had one thing above all in mind: he wan­ted to blend the building into the lands­cape of woodland, river and rock. He produced a masterpiece that over­whelms visitors mainly because of the way the torrent rushing under the build­ing is handled. Here water does not just help to balance the climate in the house. You can see it in brick-lined pools, on smooth rocks when it rages into the basins in the natural stone. And you can hear it when the shell of the building changes acts as a resonating chamber to change the constant rushing into the natural music of a region.

A lot is possible out there in the forests of America that could not be done within the confines of a city; at best it has to undergo a transformation to work there. But the architectural aim of blending the inside and the outside

Lush vegetation compli­ments Joachim Eble’s sustainable architecture.