Architecture that benefits from technological advances, without relinquishing its autonomy as an art form

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    Project entry 2014 Europe – Circular Voids: Energy-efficient office building, Holderbank, Switzerland

    Enhancing the relationship between floors. (Model picture: Christian Kerez)

This project to build a 15,000 square meter competence center includes research laboratories, office space, and generous training facilities. Perfectly circular atria cut through ceilings and floors crisscross the building, creating opportunities for employees and visitors to meet one another while also providing a sense of the building’s size from within.

Last updated: June 29, 2015 Holderbank, Switzerland

This project to build a 15,000 square meter competence center includes research laboratories, office space, and generous training facilities. Perfectly circular atria cut through ceilings and floors crisscross the building, creating opportunities for employees and visitors to meet one another while also providing a sense of the building’s size from within.

Inner and outer loadbearing structures of the building are mutually-dependent, voids and passive solar heating allow a climate concept with a minimal technical installation with almost no core.

Read project feature in 4th Holcim Awards 2014/2015 (flip-book)