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Wüest Partner Office, Zurich
Office, 2013
In a two-part process, OOS won a study competition for the new offices of Wüest Partner against seven competitors with its concept “knowledge exchange”.
In the historic offices of the old stock exchange on Paradeplatz, where shares were once traded and then drinks passed across the bar, a new tailored work environment for one of Switzerland’s leading real estate consulting firms is being created. The new office setting offers a flexible layout with up to 150 workplaces in contemporary surroundings.
The main usage areas make possible specific work operations and promote communications flow and knowledge transfer within the company besides providing elegant customer zones. The spaces are divided into three ring-shaped zones (“develop”, “gather and distribute” and “exchange”). Along the outside façade ring, concentrated work takes place in spacious offices.
All permanent workplaces have ideal conditions for work. In the middle, three-part layer, one can withdraw or work in smaller groups. The central, two-story hall with a glass roof is the heart of the office environment and invites workers to linger and exchange ideas with colleagues.
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Wüest Partner AG Zurich Christoph Kellenberger, Jan Gloeckner, Cornelia Kuonen, Gonçalo A. Manteigas, Joana Azevedo, Anna Pàl BAKUS Bauphysik&Akustik GmbH (acoustics), Righetti Partner Group (management of works), Gruner AG (fire protection), Mosimann & Partner AG (electrical planning), Amstein + Walthert AG (domestic engineering), Sommerlatte & Sommerlatte (lighting planning), HKG Consulting AG (safety), Suisseplan Ing. AG (statics), Damaris Betancourt (photography)
Expansion Wüest Partner Office, Zurich
Office, 2022
In a study commission for the expansion of the existing office landscape by Wüest Partner, OOS emerges as the winner. With the idea of “The Garage”, the existing concept of the Knowledge Exchange is expanded with additional usable space and connected to the existing rooms.
Back in 2013, after winning the study contract, OOS was commissioned to design the office landscape by Wüest Partner in the Alte Börse in Zurich and the Knowledge Exchange was created. This central idea was further developed with the idea of “The Garage”. “The Garage” is a reference to the garage as a starting and development location for success stories of well-known companies. It stands for Wüest Partner’s culture of innovation and performance and underlines its positioning.
The expansion adjoins the existing premises on the 3rd floor and is connected to the 4th floor with an additional staircase. One challenge was the optimal use of the space formerly rented by a public school. The newly created office workplaces as well as informal meeting zones enable activity-based working and follow the 4C principle: Concentration, Communication, Collaboration, Contemplation.
Other important aspects were ergonomics, acoustics and room climate to promote the well-being of the employees, as well as the expansion of the meeting rooms. These have a variety of digital equipment and promote interdisciplinary collaboration with more flexibility.
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Wüest Partner Zürich Christoph Kellenberger, Raf Dauwe, Andreas Derrer, Marc Eberhard HKP Bauingenieure AG (statics), Thieme:Klima.AG (VCS), Bakus Bauphysik und Akustik AG (acoustics), HKG Engineering AG (electrical), Dean Jaggi (photography)
PartnerRe Office, Zurich
Office, 2020
OOS accompanies PartnerRe in its overarching strategy for sharpened differentiation. The developed interior architecture is an expression of the entrepreneurial vision and values of the reinsurer. At the location in Zurich West, office environments of around 5500m2 have been created, which bring collaboration and communication to the center.
After a successful competition phase, OOS is supporting the internationally operating reinsurer PartnerRe with the development and implementation of the new vision for its office environment at the Zurich location. The move from the previous office building in the exclusive Seefeld area to the urban „Zurich West“ is part of the company‘s overall strategy to strengthen its differentiation. With the design of the „single-tenant“ tenant fit-out in the new Allreal office building, OOS is pursuing PartnerRe’s strategy in a pioneering way on an area of 5500m2.
The new premises promote a collegial, family-like working culture and underline the reinsurer‘s collaborative and partnership-based principle. The spatial result is preceded by the demanding process of bringing together the different aspects of the company‘s values with the aim of setting PartnerRe apart from other reinsurers, also in terms of spatial appearance. This led to the interior design requirement to express values such as trust and reliability and to combine these with openness, agility and a touch of youthfulness.
Collaboration and communication are not only central as corporate values, but also in the premises: attractive, cleverly placed communication areas and internal staircases structure the rooms and thus support a collegial work culture. The concept of „Verdichtung“ visually differentiates the different room areas and at the same time creates an arch across the entire building. From visually quiet room areas to densely populated „centres“, the wide range of rooms is placed in a context where visitors and employees can orientate and move intuitively.
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Partner Reinsurance Europe SE Zurich Jan Gloeckner, Gonçalo A. Manteigas, Anja Pleyer, Eveline Moser, Timothy Hildenbrand-Severo, Susanne Higgins Amstein + Walthert (acoustics), r+b (electrical engineer), Wallimann (catering planning), RMB (domestic engineer), Sektor 4 (lightning planning), Jonas Kuhn (photography)
Fischer Immobilienmanagement, Zurich
Office, 2019
The company Fischer AG Immobilienmanagement stands for unconventional and sustainable real estate projects. OOS translated this into the new company headquarters: In the old silk dye works on Lessingstrasse in Zurich, an office space spanning several floors was created with an extraordinary atmosphere.
The old building structure, previously refurbished by OOS, offered a unique starting point: a large hall with columns, exposed sandstone retaining wall, shed roof and view of the Sihl River. In addition, a long, narrow upper floor, without internal connection. Together with the client, OOS developed the vision of a two-story open-plan office with a surprise effect. The claim: It takes into account the needs of the various organizational units and makes Fischer AG Immobilienmanagement’s unconventional approach to projects tangible – spatially, atmospherically and materially.
The result: a narrow internal steel staircase spatially binds the two floors together and enables the organizational separation between concentrated work in the hall and public uses on the upper floor. Acoustic panels, which are completely integrated into the structure of the Sched roof, provided an optimal solution to the challenging spatial acoustics in the hall’s open space.
The actual heart of the design lies in the small office forest at the entrance. Anyone entering is surprised to find themselves in front of a green wall. A large variety of plants and overwhelmingly tall fir trees in huge steel troughs break the view into the space. The reception area also surprises – with its orientation into the space. The company’s values were translated into a unique spatial experience that, thanks to plants and natural surfaces, is also perceived as a healthy as well as stimulating work environment.
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Fischer AG Immobilienmanagement Zürich Andreas Derrer, Tonja Kuhn Aplantis AG (Gebäudebegrünung), Righetti Partner Group AG (Baumanagement), NFI Ingenieure AG (Elektroingenieur), Marcel Rickli (Fotografie)
MoneyPark Headquarter, Zurich
Office, 2018
The financial consulting firm MoneyPark AG in Zurich once again relies on the adaptable and sustainable design concept of OOS. The customer zones and the headquarters were brought together both in the locality and on the design level.
In just four months from the start of the project, the entire area was shaped and defined organisationally and atmospherically with just a few elements: A central area with meeting rooms and a café corner for meetings and stays was created in the headquarters.
The workplaces were designed to be very flexible and compressible with the use of benches. OOS has thus made the appearance of the headquarters “experienceable” and “perceptible” according to the design concept. Thanks to early and consistent coordination with the client, the short planning and construction time and the high coordination effort with the basic construction could also be successfully mastered.
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MoneyPark AG Zurich Gonçalo A. Manteigas, Jan Gloeckner, Andrea Prkic Righetti Partner Group AG (management of works), Sommerlatte & Sommerlatte (lighting planning), Damaris Betancourt (photography)
KOWERK, Dietlikon
Office, 2023
OOS supported the owner AXA Anlagestiftung in the strategic repositioning of a property built in 1993 at Industriestrasse 24 in Dietlikon. With clever interventions on the level of architecture and interior design, the building was refurbished and adapted to the new needs.
Starting from a purely private individual office structure by a main tenant, the building was redesigned through various interventions. The result is the KOWERK office and commercial building. This project is characterized by a variety of possible uses with areas for offices, trade and services. Due to the new multi-tenant structure, the vision for the property follows the idea of “easy-in/easy-out”.
On the ground floor there are public areas for gastronomy, showrooms, retail space and two-storey manufactories, which are connected to the first floor. The heart of the building is the atrium.
On the upper floors, the offer ranges from approx. 10 m² of small micro offices for start-ups to approx. 6’621 m² for established companies. A collab space on the 6th floor and storage rooms in the basement round off the space offer.
Due to the continuous maintenance of the building since its construction, the building fabric was basically in good condition. This had resulted in the requirement to revitalise and refurbish the existing building with as little intervention as possible. Obstacles that come to light during the conversion were responded to in an agile manner and structural decisions were adapted during the process.
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AXA Anlagestiftung Dietlikon Christoph Kellenberger, Oliver Walter, Armin Zurfluh, Matthias Pengg, Tim Hildebrand-Severo, Pipo Schrieber, Fabio Gieriet, Monika Misteli, Stéphanie Zens anex Ingenieure AG (building physics, building services engineering), HTB Ingenieure AG (civil engineering), Jaeger Baumanagement AG (construction management), Pro Engineering AG (door compartment planning), HKG Engineering AG (electrical planning), HKG Consulting (fire protection), Dr. Lüchinger + Meyer Bauingenieure AG (facade engineering), TAKTYK (landscape architecture), Dean Jaggi (photography)
Coca-Cola HBC Schweiz AG Headquarter, Opfikon
Office, 2023
The beverage company needs a new, attractive and future-oriented office for its Swiss headquarter. OOS accompanies the client in a new building near Glattpark and develops an interior design concept aligned with the company’s vision and culture. With strategic change management, OOS also helps creating a change in work culture.
The new headquarter serves as a collaboration space, with the premises extending over two floors. The diversity of the Coca-Cola HBC Schweiz AG brands represent an inspiring starting point for the design approach and are translated into a rich spatial configuration. Different spatial and working situations are used to create an office tailored to the various forms of collaboration and levels of confidentiality.
The overriding goal of office organization is short distances and unplanned encounters. This maximizes innovation and know-how transfer without specially designed processes. This is why the reception, all workstations and the cafeteria are together on the 3rd floor. Mixing of internal and external people should be deliberately avoided in the workplace areas. The organization and design of the new office environment follow the aspects of biophilic design and thus support the productivity, engagement and individual physical and psychological well-being of the employees.
An iterative development of the workstation zones results in a new desksharing ratio for an optimal organization of the office. As a result, from the original 100% allocated workstations, a 65% desksharing ratio is achieved. On approximately 3’100 m2 160 workplaces for about 245 employees are created. The spaces follow a clever arrangement that on the one hand promotes social interaction and team organization, and on the other hand takes into account confidentiality in the workplace. The flat hierarchy at Coca-Cola HBC Schweiz AG is also reflected in the workplaces – individual offices are consistently avoided.
Coca-Cola HBC Schweiz AG Opfikon Gonçalo Manteigas, Andreas Derrer, Monika Misteli, Federica Savoia, Simon Hofer, Pipo Schreiber Laterza Graf Baupartner GmbH (construction management), anex Ingenieure AG (domestic engineering + accoustics), HKG Engineering AG (electrical engineer), Conceptions AG (multimedia), Marcel Rickli (photography)
LIIP reloaded, Zurich
Office, 2017
Enhancing the atmosphere of the office and making the organisation visible and tangible – OOS has redesigned the Zurich office premises of LIIP with innovative concepts and designs.
Even with the new lighting concept, the quality of stay in the open-plan offices could be significantly increased – a core concern of LIIP, an agency for digital products. In addition, the structuring of the space has created a surprising liveliness. OOS has translated central LIIP corporate values into design and developed the innovative concept of the “living shelf” together with LIIP.
This does not simply structure the space: The extremely versatile frame is – depending on the requirements – sometimes a separating element, seating and communication platform, sometimes a meeting zone, storage space or place of retreat. It runs through all four floors as a visual orientation aid and identity-forming element.
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LIIP AG Zurich Jan Gloeckner, Eveline Moser Sommerlatte & Sommerlatte AG (lighting planning), Damaris Betancourt (photography)
Sonova Communications AG Headquarter, Murten
Office, 2020
A groundbreaking new building has been constructed in Murten: one of the first CO2-neutral office buildings in Switzerland. The competence centre is an expression of the innovative strength of Sonova Communications AG and offers a contemporary working environment with the highest quality of use. The architecture thus creates differentiation and identification.
Sonova Communications AG is active in the development and construction of ultra-miniaturised wireless technologies. The innovative new building offers a unique indoor climate for around 150 employees and is part of the technology and market leader’s sustainability programme.
On the urban planning level, the slightly concave building structure is oriented along the moraine of the terrain. It opens up towards Lake Murten and creates an inviting gesture for employees and visitors. The spatial organisation intuitively follows the operational processes. Thus, the entire research and development department is arranged on a single upper floor with an area of around 2000m2. The ground floor houses the test rooms for high-tech communication technology, the logistics department, the reception with adjoining showroom and an inviting bistro and coffee area.
In the building envelope, the architecture focuses not only on the quality of the interior and the workplace, but also on energy efficiency. The architecture allows for an almost energy-autonomous building. The envelope is kept compact and the proportion of windows is optimised. With high interior spaces, high-ceilinged windows and skylights, natural daylight is channelled deep into the rooms.
In interaction with windows, solar radiation and waste heat, the temperature- and humidity-balancing surfaces and materials create a pleasant indoor climate without active heating or cooling. The use of solar energy and waste heat from people, machines and computers is used to heat the building.
In addition, the building is powered 100% by PV electricity. With this overall passive, clever space and construction system and the absolutely minimal use of building services, the building is a CO2-neutral office building in operation.
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Sonova Communications AG Murten Christoph Kellenberger, Raf Dauwe, Tonja Kuhn, Gonçalo Manteigas Marti + Dietschweiter AG (civil engineer), Tekhne SA (construction management), Mosimann + Partner AG (electrical planning), Anex Ingenieure AG (domestic engineering), Lorenz Eugster GmbH (landscape architecture), Dean Jaggi (photography)