THE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS AND CUSTOMER CENTRE OF MAX FELCHLIN AG, IBACH
The location of Max Felchlin AG is, first of all, a production site for high-quality chocolate and, thus, quite directly shapes the architecture of the new corporate headquarters and the Customer Centre. The lower floors housing the reception, factory shop and offices follow the spatial order of the already existing as well as the projected plants, while the more representative spaces reserved for training purposes and gastronomy for both employees and customers are housed almost above the rooftops.
In fact, it is the roof structure where we are mobilizing the entire range of local carpentry shaping the pyramid-type tiled slabs of the rooms reserved for training courses and the restaurant into an imposing roof structure, which elegantly and simply but ingeniously embeds the projecting parts into the beam structure. The shadows cast by the fine horizontal lines and the sinusoidal wave-form silhouette provide the whole with a Japanese touch; a poetry, in which austerity and lightness are mutually dependent.
LOCATION: Ibach, Kanton Schwyz
COMPETITION: 2014
PROJECT: 2015-2019
CLIENT: Max Felchlin AG
MEILI, PETER & Partner ARCHITEKTEN AG
CURRENT TEAM: Markus Peter, Patrick Rinderknecht, Alice Hucker
Roman Pfister, Lukas Eschmann;
GENERAL PROJECT LEADER:
Dany Waldner AG, Zurich
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT:
HSSP GmbH, Zurich
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE:
Müller Illien Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Zurich
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structure timber work/Fireprotection/building physics:
Pirmin Jung Ingenieure AG, Rain
Collaboration structure Timber work:
Création Holz GmbH, Herisau
structure solid Building/Building Pit:
bpp Ingenieure AG, Schwyz
Building Technology:
3-Plan Haustechnik AG, Winterthur
Light Planning:
Mati AG, Adliswil
panel-Beater:
Lees AG, Altikon
MEILI, PETER & PARTNER ARCHITEKTEN
SINCE THE START OF THE PROJECT:
Benjamin Melly, Tobias Gagliardi, Adrien Muller, Tobia Rapelli, Jean Hartmann, Andreas Winzeler, Gergő Vátyi, Malte Didrigkeit
publications
«Das Räumliche ist nicht ohne das Konstruktive zu haben»
Hochparterre 12/19
«Mit Bedacht bedacht»
TEC21 47/2019
«Wo sich Tradition und Präzision treffen»
,TEC21 47/2019
«Japan in the Alps & Tendency towards concentration»
werk, bauen + wohnen 05/2019
«"Der Geist, aus dem wir handeln, ist das Höchste"»
archithese 1.2019
Schwarzplan
Situation
Site Plan
GROUND PLAN basement
ground plan entrance hall
GROUND PLAN FIRST FLOOR Offices
GROUND PLAN Second FLOOR OFFICES
GROUND PLAN THIRD FLOOR technical center
GROUND PLAN FOURTH FLOOR Condirama
rafter roof
isometric view roof structure
rooftop
Sketch Roof covering option 2
Sketch roof covering option 1
Sketch Roof
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
CROSS SECTION
North FAÇADE
East FAÇADE
South FAÇADE
west FAÇADE
Passage FAÇADE
facade section staircase
facade section roof structure and entrance hall
employees' room
employees' room
Classroom
East terrace
gallery
THIRD FLOOR corridor Offices
staircase
SECOND FLOOR coffee kitchen
Stada Structure
study structure
study roof structure
Study roof structure
facade
study facade
Entrance view competition entry
Working Space Competition Entry
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Wallfahrtskirche, Zelena Hora
Temple with Garden, Japan