The first point of contact for visitors to Sherpa Autodiagnostik is the counter, which features the company's new, clear corporate design. It is a custom-made carpentry piece in bright red, matching the logo of the workshop equipment supplier from Ampfing in the Bavarian district of Mühldorf am Inn. In just four months, Neuötting-based architect Robert Maier designed the new company headquarters at the new corporate headquarters and hit the mark with his concept – or rather, the red mark. An existing building was renovated and converted to combine the previous Sherpa locations in Mühldorf and Neuötting on a total of 4,600 m². In addition to new office wings, there are now also modern training rooms and a showroom where visitors and interested parties can experience the latest technologies and their applications first-hand.

Employees are very satisfied with Maier's bold and futuristic new interior design concept, which includes some interesting details. It is based on the company colours of white, light grey and red, and this colour scheme is repeated in all areas – whether in the meeting room with the red conference chairs as the finishing touch or in the cabinets made especially for the property by Assmann Büromöbel with red inserts. "Basically, we worked with a mixture of off-the-peg furniture and custom-made pieces," says Maier. The centrepiece of the whole is the staff canteen, which opens up almost cathedral-like to the skylight and has become a work of art, so to speak, with a plasterboard perforated ceiling with ball lights suspended at different heights, floating like clouds above the action. The perforated acoustic elements are repeated in the rooms, where they have been fitted with recessed lights and also have an artistic effect. In the canteen, the red highlight once again attracts everyone's attention: the kitchen is custom-made and contrasts with the walls and floors in calm white and grey. Red also shows the way from the central entrance area to the various work zones: corridors in a signal colour from floor to ceiling lead to the various "compartments". These are the truly futuristic aspect of the design, as all offices and areas are designed in such a way that they can be changed in the future, depending on needs and requirements. Currently, there are two workstations per partition, but it can also be designed with two workstations plus a meeting area or offices with three to four workstations. Glass partitions are used so that the overall feeling of space is not restricted.

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Photography Credits:

Peter Untermaierhofer
www.untermaierhofer.de

(Published in CUBE Munich 02|21)