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BÜRO UND VERWALTUNG • OFFICE BUILDINGS INNERE WERTE • INNER VALUES

EG – Planet: Meeting Lab mit grünen Textilien • Ground floor – Planet: Meeting Lab with green textiles

Der Vertikal Hub verbindet geschossübergreifend. • The vertical hub connects across floors. 1. OG – Progress: Meeting High mit grauen Textilien • Level +1 – Progress: Meeting High with grey textiles

A s early as 1756, when Haniel & Cie. was founded, the first urban expansion outside dios. Around the Vertical Hub, which connects the different areas across floors, there is
a spacious community area on each floor that invites people to exchange ideas or work
the city walls offered the opportunity to provide large plots for a group of deta-
ched houses. The earliest new building stood in the same year: Jan Willem Noot’s resi- in a living-room atmosphere. The centrepiece in the entrance area is the large Enkelfä-
dential and packing house, begun in 1756, now houses the Haniel Company Museum. hig Bar in the shape of the Haniel-A, where employees from the different areas can get
In its neighbourhood, Haniel General Director Welker had an extensive new building together, Town Hall Meetings take place or exhibitions, presentations by start-ups or
constructed for the administration of the prospering company from 1921 to 1923. The other events. The acoustics at the workstation are supported by the differently coloured
design was provided by the traditionalist Duisburg architect Wilhelm Weimann. The and differently high screen panels that shield the employees. Fabrics also contribute
L-shaped complex showed consideration for the site of the former cemetery and was to better acoustics in the meeting boxes. Above the meeting tables in the rooms, there
oriented structurally with its narrow side as a representative portal front to Hafenstras- is a large luminaire made of acoustic felt. The lighting concept consists of some basic
se. This remained the case for 60 years until 1983, when the architects Eller+Eller from lighting paired with atmospheric lighting. A special feature is the “blasted” Haniel-A by
Düsseldorf envisaged a reorientation of the main entrance towards the newly develo- Noneon, which continues in parts over different heights in the Vertical Hub and merges
ped Franz-Haniel-Platz in the course of radical restructuring of the Haniel property. In into a direct-light object when you stand underneath and look up. For the public area
2010, the administrative building was finally listed. Ten years later, the family-owned on the ground floor, a combination of oak parquet flooring and anthracite-coloured
company Franz Haniel & Cie. commissioned us to conduct a needs assessment by cast flooring has been installed. To ensure a general visual openness, the various boxes
means of surveys and interviews in the individual divisions, and in the following two almost all consist of glass walls. These can be individually screened from the outside
years, from 2020 to 2022, we were to design the new head office on the Enkelfähig by coloured curtains as required. In the choice of furniture, attention was paid to
Campus. In the 100-year-old listed building, a completely new way of working together sustainable design: For example, the seat shell of the Nuez Lounge BIO is completely
has now been created through a generous gutting – the “vertical hub”. After renewing compostable and biodegradable. All employees potentially have their own workstation
the ventilation-, heating- and electrical system, generous, open work areas were to be – but they can choose it anew every day. This flexibility is also guaranteed with regard
zoned by a multitude of small meeting rooms, telephone boxes and community areas. to the various work boxes: Employees can reserve and use them as needed. Due to
This produced 92 workstations on four floors and 2,875 square metres. There are 40 the hybrid way of working, some technology is required in the meeting rooms so that
retreat rooms divided into lounges, meeting rooms, Exercise Rooms and Record Stu- remote workers are not put at a disadvantage.

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