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Entwurf • Design Landau + Kindelbacher, München
Grundriss 3. Obergeschoss • Floor plan level +3
Bauherr • Client Bain & Company, München
Standort • Location Karlsplatz 1, München
Nutzfläche • Floor space 6.500 m 2
Fotos • Photos Werner Huthmacher, Berlin
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 142
BUSINESS CONSULTING
IN MUNICH
Special performances require special work environ-
ments. And this is what the worldwide operating Bain &
Company consulting firm wants to provide in order to
motivate its employees. In the centre of Munich, Landau
+ Kindelbacher are laying the foundations for achieving
it: storey by storey, the basics for a collaborative com-
pany culture and commitment are being established.
T he existing building prominently located in the centre of the city of
Munich – designed in 1955 by Georg Werner and Anton Spitzer as
the building of the Victoria insurance company – represents in the very
best manner the drastic changes to which office buildings had to submit
in the course of the past decades. At the end of the 1990s, the Munich
architects Goetz + Hootz had adapted the Victoria building in Karlsplatz
1 to the latest requirements of the time. Now – 25 years later – a new
“makeover” of the six-storey building with a central atrium, corridors
and cubicle offices had become necessary. The goal of the conversion
planned by Landau + Kindelbacher was to design a contemporary and
flexible office landscape – a multispace office, as it were. Depending on
the need and the task to be accomplished, the employees are to be pro-
vided with the perfect workstation in various sectors – no matter whet-
her for concentrated individual working, for the creative session with
kick-offs or for several people together in the group. For this purpose, the
team around Gerhard Landau and Ludwig Kindelbacher dismantled the
office corridors and walls and designed a dynamic open-plan office. Cir-
culation areas thus became areas of communication and by designing a
multitude of privacy options – called Phone Booths, Focus Rooms and
Meeting Rooms – the workstations are divided into zones in order to
equally promote communication and privacy. The result is now an agile,
motivating work environment which – also regarding the design – com-
bines tradition and modernity and locates the employees at their work-
stations. This becomes evident in the Working Café, the central meeting
point that is a new interpretation of the Bavarian parlours in its appea-
rance. The guideline of the design on the different levels is the open look
of lofts which is emphasized by the ceiling design of black expanded
metal and by bright walls and floors. Abstract and large-format Munich
motifs are used to decorate the walls, to distinguish the individual sec-
tors in addition to their coloured seating furniture and accessories and
promote the identification with Munich as the location – likewise a suc-
cessful mixture of an elegant ambience, lightness and sociability.
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