Object Carpet focuses on innovation, and not just when it comes to textile floor coverings. The best proof of this is the new company headquarters at the Object Campus – City of Visions in Denkendorf near Stuttgart. The carpet manufacturer brought the architectural team from Hank + Hirth in Eningen on board as general planners for the project.

With this first building, the specialists in industrial and commercial construction have created a significant flagship on the approximately 10,000 m² campus as an architectural statement. With its timeless architecture, it rises dynamically from the landscape and references the beautiful surroundings and the Swabian Alb. The convenient location offers ideal conditions for the City of Visions that is developing here. The five-storey building with its impressive architecture continues the dynamism of the exterior in an ambitious interior. The reception cube in the Object Carpet showroom symbolises the company's pursuit of new developments. A steel structure clad with lightweight plasterboard walls and ceilings takes progress to the extreme. Designed as an open house for interdisciplinary exchange, the result is a state-of-the-art office building that sets new standards in terms of open space and new work, while at the same time offering a feel-good atmosphere. Room-height glazed interiors are grouped around a central staircase core, leaving the view of the area unobstructed. Well-thought-out construction grids allow for a high degree of flexibility in use. There is freedom to create partitioning options for individual and variable rooms. The spaces can be configured as open-plan or individual offices, all perfectly lit and ventilated. Work areas alternate with oases for relaxation and quiet retreats in silent rooms. Communication is encouraged and possible in all areas. Meeting places are available for this purpose, as is the "La Visione" restaurant on the ground floor, which also serves as a lounge, co-working space and wine bar and has a large terrace. High standards of equipment guarantee a healthy indoor climate. For example, sound-absorbing and dust-binding carpets have been laid and all rooms are lit with the latest LED technology. The building is designed to be sustainable and virtually self-sufficient, with geothermal energy and photovoltaics providing cost-effective heating and cooling. It meets both the KfW Efficiency House 55 standard and – in the Object Carpet area – the DGNB Platinum certification. Car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, showers and changing rooms for cyclists, an electric car charging station and charging stations for e-bikes are available for users and visitors to the building. The challenge of meeting the high standards of architecture and fittings within the specified budget and cost framework was masterfully overcome by the client and the planners – the continuation of the City of Visions is in the planning stage.

www.hank-hirth.de

Photography Credits:

Markus Guhl
www.architekturfotograf-markus-guhl.com

(Published in CUBE Stuttgart 02|21)