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Pöyry Infra Headquarter, Zurich

For its headquarters in Zurich, the engineering office needed around 33 additional jobs on an area of 560 square meters.

The meeting rooms and focus rooms (for “standing”) divide the open-plan office into zones, while the workplaces are located in the areas with good daylight. Despite the hard floor, the textile-covered ceiling panels with mineral wool filling ensure pleasantly muffled acoustics.

The focal spaces and installations on the ceiling do not follow the strict exterior geometry of the building in the longitudinal direction. If the viewer shifts in the space, the overlays on the ceiling and the reflections in the non-orthogonal glass surfaces start to move.

Plans, Drawings and Diagrams

Plans, Drawings and Diagrams

Project Details

Client

Pöyry Infra

Location

Zurich

Internal Team

Christoph Kellenberger, Emanuel Ullmann

External Team

Dominique Marc Wehrli (photography)

Year

2007

Typology

Office

Discipline

Interior Design

Task

Expansion

Status

Realized

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