KNERER
UND   LANG

The assignment of the maintenance depot north, with all its different usages,
such as administration, communal rooms, vehicle depots, warehouses, salt depot, skip depot, customer traffic, was approached with a simple, pragmatic concept: everything under the one roof.

This was executed through each space having the necessary height for its function, thus creating a folding landscape of varying heights of grassed roof.
Approximately 5.700 sqm of total area create a giant sculpture, forming a spacious courtyard.
The facade design corresponds with this variation, with a hard yard-depot inside and its landscape resembling frontal exterior.
Outward the building presents itself modest and unassuming with a slick up-right larch wooded cladding.
Only from the street is it apparent that behind the wood an operation dealing with our environment and sustainability is hidden. Step inside plant and you enter a completely different image – the courtyard facade, is made of metal and coloured a bright “Olympic blue” - enrapturing all visitors and the 50 employees alike. The courtyard erupts to a stage of activity.