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Client: G.Baumgartner AG, Hagendorn
Date Completed: May 2006
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Program: A 330,000-square-foot window factory.
Design concept and solution: The architects were asked to design a large-scale extension for the G. Baumgartner AG production facility. Located on the outskirts of a small rural community, the extension was limited by the landscape. In order to merge the design of the factory with the pastoral surroundings, the architects designed a building to integrate nature and the factory. The outer facade is surrounded by a frame construction planted with indigent wild plants, and the area of field now occupied by the building has been replaced by a meadow on the projecting roof.
Formal name of project: G. Baumgartner Window Factory
Location: Hagendorn near Zug/Switzerland
Gross square footage: 330,000 sq.ft.
Total construction cost: CHF 40,000,000
Architect:
Niklaus Graber & Christoph Steiger Architekten ETH/BSA/SIA
Hirschengraben 40
CH-6003 Luzern
Phone ++41 41 248 50 10
Fax ++41 41 248 50 19
www.graberundsteiger.ch
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