ORBIZ Josef, Zurich
The new ORBIZ flex office for the Investment Foundation Turidomus is being built on Josefstrasse in Zurich. The offer is aimed at small and medium-sized companies that want to use a fully equipped office. OOS has developed an original interior design for a prestigious working environment and created additional uses such as a gastronomy business on the ground floor.
The flex office with plug and play principle is an example of the repositioning of existing buildings. In future, the building will be open to a wide range of users and will be enriched by publicly accessible spaces. The interior design is intended to give the working environment a unique identity. The aim is to achieve recognition value and differentiation from the competition.
On the architectural level, a new entrance situation will be created on the ground floor. The new gastronomy business on the ground floor will be used in a variety of ways throughout the day and will be transformed into a relaxed bar environment in the evening. The spacious meeting and event rooms on the ground floor will be used by both tenants and external guests for workshops and events.
New identity for existing buildings.
Flexible offices will be created on the upper floors, offering a pleasant and inspiring room climate with optimal acoustics. One challenge was to design an open connecting staircase that meets the different requirements of the different uses.
A special feature of this project is the use of materials from the existing building. To ensure that individual components can be returned to the cycle, some of them were handed over to component hunters in order to utilise the existing material in a resource-saving manner.
Plans, Drawings and Diagrams
Plans, Drawings and Diagrams
Project Details
Client
Investment Foundation Turidomus
Location
Zurich
Internes Team
Gonçalo Manteigas, Raf Dauwe, Tonja Kuhn, Simon Hofer, Federica Savoia, Hugo Pereira
Externes Team
Digitalbau GmbH (cost planning), Raguth Baumanagement GmbH (construction management), HKP Bauingenieure AG (civil engineering), anex Ingenieure AG (building acoustics / building physics), HHM Hefti. Hess. Martignoni. Zürich AG (HVACSE), BIQS Brandschutzingenieure AG (fire protection), Conceptions AG (audio-video), Aplantis AG (interior greening), PromaFox AG (gastro planner)
Year
2024
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