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Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan

Höhensprünge: 1931, 1940, und 2019 • Height changes: 1931, 1940 and 2019

Grundriss 1. Obergeschoss • Floor plan level +1

Grundriss Galeriegeschoss • Floor plan level gallery

Anno dazumal: So wurde bei Maggi früher gearbeitet • A different time: how work was formerly done at Maggi

of clusters were positioned along the façades. Illuminated as bright as day and all of
them close to windows! Since the existing wooden windows could not be renovated, Grundriss 3. Obergeschoss • Floor plan level +3
they were replicated including their original fittings and panes and installed as the ex-
terior façade surface. On the inside, new, triple-glazed windows with wooden frames
take up the old proportions again.

Open spaces: formerly a principle in production, today in the office

Below the galleries are the service areas of the offices, above them informally furnished
meeting- and privacy areas. The acoustic partitions of the cubicles are colour-matched
to the goat hair carpeting of the galleries. The first upper level is dominated by shades of Grundriss 4. Obergeschoss • Floor plan level +4
red, the second by shades of green. The almost white-painted concrete ceilings and sup-
ports as well as varying shades of grey – darker polyurethane surfaces and bright wood
cladding – produce the neutral background for the subtly coloured furnishing. The basic
structure of the building stock is consistently and clearly noticeable continued in the two-
level floor addition of 2019. Vertically installed, reddish-brown bricks emphasize the hi-
story of the floor additions which the building tells. Behind the façades are two-level
orangeries. Plants for the flavouring-production by Givaudan are growing in these infor-
mal contact zones. In the centre and on two levels – analogue to the galleries of the buil-
ding stocks – are the meeting areas and open spaces of the company management. The
Givaudan offices have been certified LEED Gold. The substantially and aesthetically
Maggi legacy is ready for a long life cycle. And it is still all about flavourings. Längsschnitt • Longitudinal section

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