Location | Zug ZG |
Client | Canton of Zug |
Commission | Competition 2013 |
Planning | 2014–2020 |
Construction | 2021–2027 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Urs Schmid |
Consultants | Structural engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting, Project Manager: PBK AG, Mechanical Engineer: Markus Stolz, Electrical Engineer: Scherler AG |
Although the new headquarters were to occupy a considerable amount of urban space, this design ensures multifaceted legibility on different levels of scale due to its permeable structure, thereby allowing it to mediate between the different grains of the surrounding environment. The alternating stacking of building wings creates a multifaceted spatial principle that provides good overviews and order. The proposed typology with its courtyards, rooftop gardens and open and covered terraces enhances the workplaces, ensuring a balanced provision of daylight despite the great depth of the rooms. The chosen spatial principle – especially the spatially effective load-bearing structures – elegantly offers column-free rooms with maximum flexibility both on the ground floor and on the upper storeys. The headquarters’ direct construction method and concise symbolism are reminiscent of the character of traditional infrastructure buildings.
As a part of “Adda Collective” we are selected to participate in the „Korail Residency 2024“, which is embedded in the “Korail City of Culture” initiative in Dhaka/Bangladsh.
The project „Korail City of Culture“, which focuses on Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is a sustainable urban development initiative supported by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its local counterpart, Paraa, and international partner, Floating e.V.. The project aims to support cultural practitioners and producers living, working, and playing in Korail in establishing sustainable cultural practices, and to feed this knowledge back into processes of global and local learning and teaching on sustainable urban development.
The projects and works that are developed during the Korail residency program shall be part of the „Maja-Kori“ Design Festival in and around Korail Basti in December 2024.
Adda Collective is a multidisciplinary and mutinational team formed around „Adda Space“ Dhaka/Bangladesh and Graber & Steiger Architects, Lucerne/Switzerland. For further information you may also check Instagram @grabersteiger @adda.dhaka.
Image: Goethe Institute Bangladesh