The new WAL building occupies an important place in the urban fabric as well as in the fabric of the Beuth University campus. The building closes the street alignment on Luxemburger Strasse and thus forms the end and prelude to the Beuth campus. At the same time, it is an important spatial edge to the esplanade, which forms the green backbone of the campus. Continuing the campus concept, the building is accessed from the esplanade. The polygonal shape of the building incorporates the shape of the plot as well as the existing urban edges and in this way manages to envelop a tried-and-tested and economical laboratory layout on the one hand, and to create communicative zones inside in an appropriate manner on the other. The façade of the building is based on the idea of an envelope that draws its charm from the contrast between heavy, load-bearing and light, transparent building materials - concrete and glass - and their deliberate juxtaposition.