In a business world characterized by a progressive digitalisation of work processes and increased staff mobility, locations and elements of emotion and identity become central to the concept of modern working environments. As technological advances break the traditional connection between work and workplace, increasingly mobile work opportunities arise. Consequently, today’s “Activity Based Design” needs to focus on providing employees with working environments that offer a fitting atmosphere of support for the task at hand. It is a matter of projecting structures, offering incentives for communication and creating places of encounter. Accounting for these changed demands, our interior design for an international consultancy aims to find the right balance between business prestige and informal quality. For even renowned businesses can not solely rely on high salaries and company cars to attract high-potentials in today’s fiercely competitive market.
Team: Gunter Fleitz, Hansen Hermawan, Peter Ippolito, Tina Jochens, Kamil Kaczmarek, Christian Kirschenmann, Melanie Neska, Isabel Pohle, Jennifer Schäfer, Verena Schiffl, Anke Wankmüller
The omnibus depot is a facility for public transport buses in the German capital Berlin, in the district of Britz. 220 buses are located on an area of 44 500 square meters. The depot opened in 1910 as a tram depot. As usual at these times, the staff was housed on the site in service apartments.
The current building was built by Jean Krämer in 1925/1926 and modified in 1928 to 1933.
Together with the residential area near the depot, the complex is on the list of cultural monuments in Berlin-Britz.
Georg Jensen’s newest store in Munich is located on one of the city’s luxury shopping streets, Maffeistrasse.
The store showcases Georg Jensen’s most prominent pieces of hollowware, jewellery and watches. Each merchandise category has its own defined space and atmosphere, and the customer is led through the store, one space at a time.
New train station at Hamburg-Altona that acts as a visionary landmark – both for Altona and for the whole of Hamburg – in that the station plays an active role in the urban development.
A tendency of today‘s art creation is to work again in large formats and space consuming.
Two new large studios in the historic monuments of the trooper barracks of the 19th century on the Campus of Culture in Münster/Germany were created for this requirement. To enable these two large volumes of space the simple roof trusses of the towers were deconstructed and built above the new ateliers cantilever prefabricated wood rib elements.
With the proposal ‘Oberbillwerder – the Connected City’ ADEPT and KARRES+BRANDS with Transsolar have won the international master plan competition for a 360 ha development area close to Hamburg City Center. Oberbillwerder is close to both city and landscape and is the largest one-off development in Germany since Hafen City. Fully build, the masterplan will include about 1.000.0000 m2 in a mix of housing, business, shopping, public buildings and recreational activities.
The new indoor playground for children in Ingolstadt in Germany consists of an entrance building and the playground itself with a ceiling height of 12 meters. The main entrance is spread over 2 floors.
Merck’s site in Darmstadt is to be developed stage-by-stage, remodelling it from a production works into a technology and science campus. The heart of this transformation is the Innovation Center with a new world of work. A dynamic spatial continuum singularises the individual workplaces whilst connecting them to form a spatial network.
Munich – The architectural firm DIA – Dittel Architekten has developed an overall interior concept and a new facade design. In addition to a uniform design language, the design itself fulfils the aim, on an area of 300 square metres, of having clear room division and of integrating a variety of different seating areas to ensure high-quality recreation.
For the Munich headquarters of hotel chain Motel One, we designed a conference and training centre, multiple office floors, a central lobby and a restaurant that is also open to the public. The aim was to identify a single design idiom to be used across all areas, which meshes with the Corporate Identity of Motel One while still possessing an autonomous identity.
Team: Gunter Fleitz, Peter Ippolito, You Seok Kirschenmann, Tim Lessmann, Yuliya Lytyuk, Emma Nishimoto, Mario Rodriguez, Enrique Sanz Segura, Tanja Ziegler