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Project: Zollinger Hall, Advertising Agency H2E, Ludwigsburg (Germany)
Best of Category "Office"
The Zollinger hall in the western part of Ludwigsburg (Germany) is an industrial hall which is classified as a historical monument with a Zollinger wooden roof construction which was built in the years 1925 - 1928 as a production hall for brewery boilers.
During the revitalisation of this industrial hall which has 3000 m² and is 130 m long, it was tried to transform the hall into a new modern office under maintenance of the existing structures and aura of the interior. The whole interior is divided into three sections; the new agency rooms of the advertising agency H2e, the office of the company Eisfink as well as the office of the company Merca.
The new rooms of the advertising agency H2e extend over a floor space of 2100 m² of the Zollinger hall. The installation of a gallery level as a steel construction, following the existing steel structure or reinforced concrete structure, increases the floor space about another 1200 m². The gallery creates on both levels within the existing supporting structure at the side walls, small office niches and emphasises the linearity of the interior at the same time.
The agency will be entered through spandrel-braced sea containers and over a black snorkel on the gallery level where the interior can be perceived in its whole longitudinal dimension.
A homogenous interior concept tries to combine thematically working places and communication areas of the agency in its design, so that it can be experienced as an independent element with regard to the dominant roof structure.
The especially developed team furniture of the agency are strung like a band in the centre line of the space. The team furniture can be interpreted as a modular desktop systems for respectively ten persons who can create own configurations within a given arrangement principle according to the individual requirements. The team and individual furniture consist of silk-grey lacquered MDF- boards with black linoleum worktops.
Part of the band is the living room which is used as a central communicative element of the agency and which connects both levels with each other.
The homogenous carpet area in concrete grey with varying large, opened and closed room zones, furthermore creates various new perspectives onto the formative roof construction.
On an existing projecting concrete platform the skyroom can be found which is accessible over a vitreous lift in the rear of the agency. It is designed as the main conference room and produces the perception of the hall directly under the angular point of the Zollinger wooden roof construction. In this conference room the same carpet like in the living room is used as damping and soft material and forms floor, back board and ceiling.
