Schüco Welcome Forum



Description:

Re-Use
The Welcome Forum is not an entirely new building, but a transformation of two existing former storehouses on the company’s campus in the city of Bielefeld, Germany. It will perform as a showroom and serve visitors as well as employees with spaces for communication and relaxation. Due to its intended significance the building’s formerly pragmatic look has been carefully developed towards a more elaborate and even festive appearance. While the re-utilization of existing structures and materials establishes a clear connection to the history of the place, their transformation answers the need for new functions and contemporary aesthetics.

 

 

Gestalt
A dynamic, yet controlled formal language integrates simple room-layouts with rather complex interlocked continuous spaces. The Welcome Forum shall appear at the same time exciting and sophisticated, yet adequate, pragmatic and down-to-earth. It initiates carefully composed spatial sequencing and establishes numerous connections of exterior and interior spaces.
The foyer is in the midst of the building, so that it literally places the visitor at the heart of the building. This change in typology allows for a very rich circular experience of all the functions that are now located around the spectator: in a 360° “pan-shot” the view opens towards the showroom, a lounge-area, a digital-studio that extends the physical space into the digital realm, or the café.

 

Info:

Date: 2018-2022


Place: Bielefeld, Germany

Size: ~4500 m²

Client: Schüco International KG

Team: Daniela Hake, Holger Hoffmann, Hans-Peter Nünning, Jan Hafner, Richard Haverland, Matthias Lehner, Annika Porschen, Maurice Spohn, Charlotte Walter, Nicolas Weber

Structural Design: Bockermann Fritze >>

Light-Design: Weisspunkt und Purpur >>

Prime Contractor: Goldbeck >>
Exhibition Design: D’art Design >>

Visualization: Studio Dragusha>>

Photos: Roland Borgmann>>

Status: 1. Prize, invited competition entry; built

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is an office for architectural design that is based in düsseldorf, germany. it is led by daniela hake and holger hoffmann. the name one fine day suggests a positive basic attitude, idealism and ambition that is necessary to develop architecture beyond standard solutions. it is a claim to the speculative, the unforeseen and the exciting that we see at the core of architecture and design as a cultural discipline.we see ourselves as belonging to a younger generation of architects who are not so much swayed by traditional stylistic argument and the fixation on specific formal vocabularies.
we understand the tension between pragmatic needs and potential spatial, formal and material innovation as the opportunity to create an architecture that is specific in its application, appropriate in its effort and fascinating in its appearance. our aim is to deliver architectural projects that formulate a clear contemporary position combined with precise and long-lasting technical solutions embracing cutting edge methods of industrial production and innovative craft.one fine day handles state-of-the-art computer based design and building technologies. we have in-depth understanding of the latest complex design and modelling tools - but we do not feel obliged to apply these methods if unnecessary.
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