The quality of time spent of people’s worlds of work has become a decisive factor in the canon of requirements. The design of high-quality living environments has positive effects on wellbeing and creativity.
High-quality and inspiring work environments are gaining more and more importance in society. Like housing and the utilization of open space, they are determined to a great extent by spatial qualities. Design-related, health, and ergonomic aspects play an important role. In interplay with structural components, diverse spaces give rise to a world of work that aims at people’s wellbeing. It is our conviction that the greener people’s work surroundings are the more sustainably they can act at the workplace.

Projects: Worlds of Work

Redesign of outdoor facilities in the course of renovation and new construction of the BayWa headquarters in Munich Bogenhausen.
New construction of four high-rise buildings including KITA, outdoor facilities largely on underground parking, access roads and pathways.
Passage and outdoor facilities at the new construction of an office building with underground car park.
With new, representative outdoor spaces for the watch producer Patek Philippe, we have significantly improved the quality of life for the people who work there. A “Salon Vert” consisting of shade-giving trees supplements a sunny public square with a circular water element.
The sky above and the city below! With “The Circle,” a new part of the city that is supposed to merge with the adjacent recreation space of the Butzenbüel is being created at Zurich Airport. City and landscape enter into a productive spatial dialogue.
Redesign of the inner courtyard in the course of the overall renovation
New institute building with inner courtyards at different levels
Paths, functions, and green areas are interwoven in an orthogonal system to create a geometrical-abstract picture. It is the result of a mixing of art and everyday life—a subtle invitation to question conventional ways of seeing things.
Along with the entrance, the angularly positioned buildings at the headquarters of the company 4B Fenster & Fassaden form a forecourt with a large pool of water in the shade of trees that invites spending time and observing.
Design of the outdoor facilities of a newly built control center of the DLR (German Aerospace Center)
Different uses come together in a confined space: representative zones alternate with zones for rest and retreat, which we have implemented in clear structures between the buildings and dissolved around the buildings.
What is called for in Zurich-West is a compatible coexistence of housing and commerce with a high quality of life, rather than a demixed, sterile monoculture. A previously fenced-in industrial site has thus been transformed into a permeable district. “Puls 5” represents this transformation exemplarily.
The former clay quarry served as a landfill and was subsequently placed under nature protection. The surface water is not permitted to seep in. With large basins of water, we have created diverse habitats that—corresponding to the artificiality of the location—are also designed in an artificial way.
A traditional company has invented itself anew at its more than 100-year-old site in Berlin. On the new campus, the open space takes on a special task as a scenic and identity-forming link between heterogeneous buildings and their surroundings.
The new, 300-meter-long energy center is anchored like a cargo ship in the Bremgarterwald (Bremgarten Forest) before the gates of Bern. We congratulate Graber Pulver Architekten AG on winning the top prize at the ARC Award 2013 in the category of “office, commercial, retail, and industrial buildings.” We are responsible for the outdoor areas and inner courtyards.
Giving the industrial site its own character through an overarching environmental concept and integrating it gently into the landscape requires perseverance. We were able to implement a first step with the surroundings of the new innovation centre.