Schwarz Campus Project

The campus’ buildings lie like large flower petals in the topographical landscape frame. Despite their solitary appearance, they enclose a common green centre. The landscape surrounding the campus area creates the green connection to the neighbourhood. Externally, the open space merges into a landscape framework consisting of agricultural fields, while the natural green of the surroundings flows into a creative green. The open space aims at giving continuity to the landscape in the planning area, over the roofs into the green centre. Its structure is based on the spatial sequence landscape – neighbourhood – community and encloses the buildings. This results in new meeting points in the neighbourhood, through which one can reach the centre, as heart of the community.

With its lush plants, the central garden forms the green heart of the architecturally designed square. Like an oasis, the green space lies in the paved area and moderates between the landscape, the entrance, and the roofs, which are covered with extensive and intensive greenery and a photovoltaic system. In such way, the area offers employees high-quality green of various types. Through various cultivated plants, an optical attraction is created in each courtyard, thus creating an enjoyable and relaxed stay for the employees of the adjacent buildings by means of a small-scale design.

The project allows nature to be tangible at the workplace. The direct experience of nature for the employees results from a symbiosis between architecture and an open space that blends into the vast landscape.