Our contact directory for Roche operations around the world can be found on our Our digital presence spans Roche.com and dedicated regional sites across 70+ countries Discover how our integrated platforms connect patients and innovators to advance personalized healthcare solutions and shape the future of medicine through seamless collaboration and scientific excellence This website contains information on products which is targeted to a wide range of audiences and could contain product details or information otherwise not accessible or valid in your country Please be aware that we do not take any responsibility for accessing such information which may not comply with any legal process registration or usage in the country of your origin This is the third building that the Basel practice of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein raises on the Roche Pharma campus in Grenzah-Wyhlen a German municipality near the Swiss border Standing 23 meters and making a 50x30-meter footprint the cube is executed with prefabricated concrete elements The basic idea is simple: to provide roomy and flexible workspaces Infrastructure and circulation elements are thus pushed to the corners freeing the central space of columns on all the above-ground floors The four glass-encased corners show stairs connecting all the levels a 500-seat auditorium can be broken up into three separate performance halls Because there are very few walls within the building furnishing plays an important role in defining the spaces The furniture design is based on a modular concept of INCHfurniture in collaboration with Christ & Gantenbein there arent any match using your search terms Floor planA spatial generosity defines the appearance of the Multifunctional Workspace Building. Recalling an “industrial palazzo”, its façade’s composition conveys dignity and representation. The borders are accentuated by vertical, crisscrossing beams, which bring forward its specific structural concept, and in reference to its manufacturing background, high-quality yet sober materials create a refined and understated elegance. © Walter MairThe functional and comfortable interior allows for diverse gatherings from the customizable 550 seat auditorium which can be partitioned into three individual halls and non-digital exchange in an inclusive and non-hierarchical setting and enclosed zones for privacy are mingled with conference rooms dispersed throughout the open floorplan All furniture is based on a concept proposed by INCHfurniture in collaboration with Christ & Gantenbein; making it as flexible and updatable as possible and position only a select range of permanent fixtures INCHfurniture led this collaborative process to an extraordinary result: a lively and eclectic interior design that clearly and consciously contrasts the rigid and austere architectural design by filling it with an animated world of highly adaptable You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email We encourage you to republish Dialogue Earth articles, online or in print, under the Creative Commons license. Please read our republishing guidelines to get started Grenzach-Wyhlen along the German-Swiss border have taken different approaches to cleaning up polluted soil in the area This summer, the inhabitants of the sleepy German town of Grenzach-Wyhlen are confronted with the unusual sight of three giant yellow drilling rigs. The machines hover over the site near the Rhine River where Swiss drug maker Roche prepares to excavate and dispose of around 280,000 tonnes of contaminated soil the machines will drill 888 interlocking piles deep into the ground to form an underground retaining wall The excavation site will be covered by a lightweight hall where workers will fill the polluted soil into containers destined for thermal treatment plants in Germany and the Netherlands The containers will be transported there from a nearby train terminal barges will also be used to transfer the containers to the terminal via a newly built temporary pier at the bank of the Rhine Division of contaminated land in Kesslergrube Roche has committed to cleaning up perimeters 1 and 3 The authorities decided that this solution, projected to take two years and at a cost of 30 million euros (222 million yuan), satisfies the hazard prevention requirement of the German soil protection law. However, it does not satisfy the expectations of the local citizens’ initiative who filed an administrative opposition against the company’s plans Local residents have said that capping the toxic site will not remove the source of the problem and will discourage new commercial activities in the area The angry citizens feel validated by Roche’s activities next door “We are determined that excavation is the most sustainable solution because it removes the source of the contamination and there will be no future need for maintenance,” said Roche’s Chief Remediation Officer Richard Hürzeler who guides the frequent visitors through an information centre the company has set up next to the construction site The modern meeting room on the second floor of the cube-like info box offers a panorama of the construction site a multimedia exhibition explains the history of the landfill and the remediation plans Visitors experience a simulation of what it would be like to work on the excavation underground Roche declined to comment on the cost of the visitor centre but it would have been only a fraction of the 239 million euros the company plans to spend on the entire project This number is not only eight times higher than the price tag for BASF’s enclosure plan but it amounts to almost half of the 538 million euros BASF spent on its worldwide environmental protection and remediation efforts in 2015 “Switzerland is the most advanced country in the area of soil decontamination,” says Peter Donath a retired chemist and former environmental manager at Ciba who is now an active member of the citizen’s initiative against Ciba’s successor BASF The Swiss law stipulates a risk-based assessment but it implicitly favors excavation by demanding that a site will no longer have to be actively managed within two generations “Excavation is not the legal default, yet it is the method that is most often used in Switzerland,” said Christiane Wermeille, head of the Contaminated Sites Section at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment Switzerland’s high demand for building land creates incentives for owners to delete their sites from the national register of contaminated sites as quickly as possible the location of Grenzach-Wyhlen would explain why Roche cares so much about local public opinion The German town is essentially a suburb of Basel the Swiss city where Roche is headquartered Yet in the end, cross-country comparison may be overblown since every remediation decision has to be taken on a case-by-case basis. On some Swiss sites, the risks of excavating toxic material would outweigh the benefits. On the other hand, BAUER Resources the company that manages the Kesslergrube project as a contractor for Roche completed excavations in German inner city areas to allow for future construction of underground structures such as parking garages BASF argues that the pollution problem in its part of the Kesslergrube site differs fundamentally from the one owned by Roche who heads the company’s division for Global Remediation the BASF site is less contaminated and more than twice as large as Roche’s so that an excavation would be even costlier and take longer than the five years Roche has scheduled for its project the BASF side is overbuilt with two wastewater treatment plants which would have to be removed prior to an excavation cost-benefit calculations play a big role in soil remediation efforts and legislators face the challenge of drafting the regulations and creating financing models – especially for cases where the initial polluter cannot be clearly identified or where the responsibility rests with governments and communities The US collected taxes from the chemical and petroleum industry in the 1980s to build up its so-called “Superfund” for cleaning up abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous sites Federal and local governments across the EU grant subsidies to communal remediation efforts Many developing countries will face similar issues when drafting their own laws and rules. China’s recently-released action plan for tackling soil pollution has been criticised for lacking details on funding which is bidding to participate in planned pilot projects in China warns that it would be misguided to rely too heavily on private investor money to clean up the pollution “Financial models such as private-public partnerships don’t work in cases where the costs of remediation would be higher than the value of the land,” he said The situation in China is similar to East Germany where different types of state-owned heavy industries created overlapping contamination across large swaths of land Waiting for one big private company to pick up the entire bill Sabine Muscat is a journalist based in Stuttgart Select from our bespoke newsletters for news best suited to you We’ve sent you an email with a confirmation link 我们向您的邮箱发送了一封确认邮件，请点击邮件中的确认链接。如果您未收到该邮件，请查看垃圾邮件。 If you would like more information about the terms of our republication policy or permission to use content, please write to us: [email protected] We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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volume Clever structure support systems allow for a flowing column-free interior that can be flexible and open. This open-plan generosity can be felt throughout – a perfect embodiment of the architects’ intention as the office building was conceived as a fluid non-hierarchical space for Roche’s employees publicly accessible hall and adaptable workspace allow maximum internal and operational flexibility. At the same time transparent façades ensure natural light and views are a big part of  daily working life in this office.  especially developed from a concept created by INCHfurniture in collaboration with Christ & Gantenbein complementing the building’s inherent flexibility.  Hoping to create an office that feels sharp and modern but at the same time addresses the needs of the workspace of the future the architecture studio’s co-founder Emanuel Christ says: ‘Our multifunctional workspace building anticipated what is essential for both today and tomorrow This was only possible through the incredibly ambitious goal pursued by all involved parties: to create something unconventional to develop and propose something different and to invent our own version and interpretation of contemporary collaboration.  ‘We want to provide a space for what cannot be done remotely,’ he continues. ‘We want to equip a workspace with personality and flexibility in order to provide a positive experience for Roche’s employees and invite the local community to participate Christ & Gantenbein’s architecture created the frame that allows all these special moments to unfold This is what we have achieved here and this makes me very proud.’ escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox christgantenbein.com Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper* She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006 visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas Ellie has also taken part in judging panels such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022) filling it with an animated world of highly adaptable the ‘roche multifunctional workspace building’ marks the newest addition to roche’s campus in grenzach-wyhlen which was established more than a century ago as its first manufacturing base near the swiss border it now houses around 1450 employees working for roche pharma AG (germany) multifunctional workspace building embraces change in a formal and urbanistic reinterpretation of the firm’s architectural and cultural traditions developed as an alternative to the traditional office and home office the project brings people together in a workspace that epitomizes the architectural translation of the cultural shift of the ‘new ways of working.’ thanks to its spatial and conceptual transparency the building can easily accept and absorb changes over time to accommodate novel conditions we have created a frame for many forms of collaboration and communication to unfold within its context,’ emanuel christ tells designboom in our interview (more below!) all images: roche multifunctional workspace building by christ & gantenbein, photos © walter mair multifunctional workspace building stands almost 25 meters high and is designed as a simple cube this results from a typological feature that shifts infrastructural and circulatory elements to its corners freeing up the center on all floors above ground and forming an exposed an open-plan design invites unrestrained movement through its radically column-free floors providing natural light and vistas throughout prestressed coffered-ceiling elements recall an industrial language the roche multifunctional workspace building’s austere façade designboom (DB): when did you begin working on the roche multifunctional workspace building and what was your initial approach to its design christ & gantenbein (C&G): we started working on this project in 2015 after completing an office and a technical building on roche pharma germany’s campus in 2011 together with our client and our collaborators we came up with a concept that anticipated so many things that are relevant today: a building that is a meeting place and a place for exchange and education a building that provides all these things that a traditional office doesn’t offer and the home office doesn’t provide DB: this is christ & gantenbein’s third completed project in roche’s campus in grenzach-wyhlen how does the new addition fit in with the existing buildings and surrounding site (C&G): roche pharma germany’s campus in grenzach-wyhlen follows a master plan formulated by roland rohn in the 1960s our design is impressed by roche’s architectural heritage such as otto rudolf salvisberg’s contributions and the overall assembly of factories and high-quality management and office buildings on the campus and urbanistic reinterpretation of these architectural and cultural traditions it actively communicates with the larger community and the existing structures through its design language the façade design incorporates and unites these principles it is defined by horizontal aluminum bands framing large windows the building’s corners are open and reveal staircase areas mirror-clad cube in the ground level entry hall DB: the building contains a variety of functions how are these spaces laid out as part of the complex C&G: a publicly accessible lobby on the ground level opens onto a double-story forum on the first and second floors with smaller-scale pockets of activity arranged around it followed by two levels of flexible spaces that together create the foundation for a ‘work to meeting’ environment and new modes of collaboration all floors are connected via the building’s staircases this typological feature frees up the center on all floors above ground and forming an exposed the functional and comfortable environment allows for diverse gatherings thomas wüthrich (founding partner of INCHfurniture): characteristic of this environment are work processes guided by interdisciplinary ways of thinking team-based forms of work or hybrid working methods the principles of a circular economy were taken into account in the design process and sustainability criteria were central to the selection of materials the customizable 550 seat auditorium can be partitioned into three individual halls DB: what alternative does the design introduce to the traditional office and home office (C&G): the multifunctional workspace building provides an alternative to the traditional office and home office it brings people together in an environment that is more than a conventional office it enhances the non-digital exchange between individuals name: roche multifunctional workspace building architect: christ & gantenbein germany year: 2015 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four focus areas of our corporate philanthropy is supporting science education initiatives promoting innovation and providing access to opportunities for young people around the world the internationally top-ranking university in Switzerland to enable ten PhD students and postdoctoral scientist from developing countries to attend the 14th International Conference on the Biochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE) held in Zurich Switzerland is a country considered at the international forefront of environmental protection due to its long history and broad experience in coping with environmental pollution issues The bi-annual ICOBTE conferences serve as a platform for scientific exchange about ways to address the behaviour fate and management of trace elements in the environment and issues such as: mobility and turnover We also sponsored a technical excursion for conference participants to learn about corporate responsibility and an innovative approach toward remediating a former landfill About 20 young scientists from countries including India China and Iran were hosted at the visitor centre of Roche’s Kesslergrube remediation project “For us it is essential to open our doors and show what Roche is doing We take responsibility for past actions and like to share our experience to foster sustainable approaches toward waste management,” said Richard Huerzeler Kesslergrube project lead and Chief Remediation Officer at Roche “Showing our remediation approach to the young scientists was an exciting experience for me Many of them are experts in environmental sciences and we had very good and engaging discussions.” a post-doc researcher in soil sciences at The University of Lavras “I have never heard of a remediation approach like this before It was interesting to get an insight into the processes and the technologies used That was a great addition to my research.” At Roche we believe in improving access to education and real-world science skills We open our doors to show young people what we do and engage them to become scientists and the next generation of innovators At Roche we are committed to creating and maintaining a healthy and safe environment for all Protecting people and the environment isn’t just a legal or social obligation; it is integral to our operations We approach it with the same commitment as any business-related activity striving for continuous improvement wherever possible For the environment – one element of our sustainability concept – this doesn’t only include our attempts in minimising our ecological footprint and with that reducing the environmental impacts of our products and operations This also applies to our actions in the past: We accept responsibility for all waste generated at our operations including waste previously deposited at our sites or landfills We believe that existing landfills containing hazardous wastes threatening the environment should be addressed proactively and the issue should be resolved entirely and sustainably One example for our remediation activities is the Kesslergrube in Grenzach-Wyhlen The remediation of the former landfill begun in September 2015 “We want to equip a workspace with personality and flexibility in order to provide a positive experience for Roche’s employees and invite the local community to participate,” said studio co-founder Emanuel Christ Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein has created a new line of office furniture that aims to give staff more freedom and flexibility than a traditional workplace.The furniture was custom built by the Basel-based INCHfurniture for Christ & Gantenbein’s new Roche Pharma AG headquarters in Grenzach-Wyhlen called “Fritz project.” The new furniture line playfully departs from the glass and colorfully upholstered midcentury modern chairs.The palette is seemingly more refined at ground level but the overall effect is intended to help Roche employees stay relaxed and encourage hybrid working—FRITZ isn’t set up for workers to hunker down at their desks all day the new furniture and interiors enhance the non-digital exchange between individuals and embodies deep sustainability transferable to a variety of applications.It simultaneously allows for both individualized workspaces and informal interactions in a professional environment The functional and comfortable furniture allows for diverse gatherings and non-digital exchange in an inclusive and non-hierarchical setting.Individual workspaces and enclosed zones for privacy are mingled with conference rooms dispersed throughout the open floorplan.The Multifunctional Workspace Building offers answers by providing an alternative to the traditional office and home office: it brings people together in a workspace that is more than a conventional office and that epitomizes the architectural translation of the cultural shift of the “New Ways of Working.” Project: modular office furnitureArchitects: Christ & GantenbeinManufacturer: INCHfurniture Input your search keywords and press Enter You can see how this popup was set up in our step-by-step guide: https://wppopupmaker.com/guides/auto-opening-announcement-popups/ the Multifunctional Workspace Building on the campus of the Roche Pharma AG in the southwest German town of Grenzach-Wyhlen Christ & Gantenbein have devised a flexible and forward-looking office building that inspires the development of new ways of working and impresses with its simple Already back in 2011 the Basel-based architects Christ & Gantenbein had built an office and technical installations building on the campus of the Roche Pharma AG pharmaceutical company in the southwest German town of Grenzach-Wyhlen which lies just on border with Switzerland the new Multifunctional Workspace Building FRITZ which gets its name from the company’s founder Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche continues the pre-existing grid layout of the campus Together with the equally new plazas and external spaces that surround the building it enlarges the campus itself and creates a new centre which is partially accessible to the public must lie on the extraordinary workspace that has been created which enables and facilitates new ways of working The basic idea behind the project is simple: employees can organise and alter their workspaces in the generous and non-hierarchical spaces as they wish Placing the access and utility cores at the corners of the five-storey building and having the coffered ceilings prestressed in a transverse direction allowed the creation of radically column-free interior floor spaces This provides the highest degree of freedom in all above-ground storeys and a maximum of variability and flexibility in the design of the entire building The flexible floor layouts are the basis for a “work to meeting” setting and facilitate new ways of collaboration light-filled and column-free spaces encourage free movement within the areas inspire encounters and interaction with others and create a relaxed working environment All of the building’s floors are joined by the access and utility cores The position of the stairwells allows for views of the surrounding hills the neighbouring village as well as the campus in Grenzach-Wyhlen itself and establish a connection with Roche’s industrial heritage Between the two workspace floors and the publicly accessible foyer on the ground floor lies the floating was designed with the highest degree of flexibility in mind as the walls of the 550-seat Forum can be dismantled Modular and partially movable furniture and made-to-measure spatial elements were designed and built by Basel-based design bureau INCHfurniture following a concept developed in close collaboration together with Christ & Gantenbein and Roche The design enables hybrid working methods and allows for new ways of working to evolve but also to retreat for meetings or focussed individual work The functional design creates the platform for direct authentic and not exclusively digital interaction Its basis lies in the architecture by Christ & Gantenbein and the idea of so-called activity-based-working which supports maximum freedom in project organisation planning and implementation and provides employees with the flexibility to chose the best possible workspace for the task ahead the composition of the facade represents a kind of “industrial palazzo” The facade system is defined by horizontal bands and consists of aluminium panels and takes its references from the industrial background of the location And the choice of a high-quality and sober palette of materials used is anchored in the architectural and cultural heritage of the company But the strictly axially segmented 23-metre tall cube also reflects Christ & Gantenbein’s rational architectural vocabulary It formulates the change from a manufacturing industrial location towards a more human-focused environment that promotes interaction and teamwork the vertical and crossing reinforcing elements make the specific static concept of the building recognisable and also serve as earthquake protection measures The Multifunctional Workspace Building meets the strictest requirements when it comes to the energy efficiency and sustainability demanded by Roche and aspects of longevity and a resource-conserving construction are paramount Fulfilling the task of building sustainably has been implemented by the architects in the environmentally conscious approach to the actual construction process as well as the manufacturing of the building materials The decisive quality of the new building lies in its future-oriented construction which can easily adapt its design to changing conditions and demands or yet to be determined types of working together The multifunctional office building offers alternatives to the classic office workspace and home office alike: it brings people together in a flexible and hybrid work environment and represents an architectural translation of the cultural change towards a hierarchy-free completely transparent and flexible “new way of working” You must be logged in to post a comment The Flexible Office Building project is a 4-storey office building with an underground technical central constructed for the Roche Pharma AG in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany. General planner on the large construction project, Itten+Brechbühl AG is in charge of the BIM coordination as well as defining the BIM processes in the project The work has just progressed to the realisation stage on the construction site Itten+Brechbühl AG is a Swiss architectural and general planning company focusing on complex buildings and large construction projects the company has seven offices in Switzerland and three in Germany said: “The models we deal with contain so much information that it’s impossible to check them manually or visually “When you invest in the BIM method and model checking you find issues or planning problems a lot earlier in your projects that may otherwise not arise until on the construction site this brings largely savings on the construction site and this is what our clients benefit most from.” ensuring the aggregated model contains no hard clashes between different disciplines is seen as the business as usual one of the main purposes of Solibri is that on top of the simple clash detection there are so many other possibilities to actually look at the design qualities head of BIM research & development at Itten+Brechbühl AG we aim at assuring that the required information is in the right place in a model we work a lot with Solibri to make sure that the quality of a model is at the needed level that it contains all the required information and only then we proceed with it in the project,” he added “People often talk about coordination as if it was only clash detection Hopf lists a host of situations where Solibri has been a significant help for the team in terms of which provisions for voids have been accepted by the civil engineer which have already been taken over by the architect We’ve also found it very helpful to have the rules for checking the space in front of doors or windows to see that they open,” explains Hopf Another important check on the FOB project has been ensuring there’s enough space in front of the HVAC components “This is really important for the operation of the building in terms of maintenance in the future,” adds Hopf an essential part of using the BIM method in the Flexible Office Building project is to define information in the model for future building maintenance purposes together with the client wherein the model is most suitable to have this data.” the client defines their own processes for the facility management which relates back to what type of information may be needed The best outcome comes from shared round table discussions Hopf added: “It’s a big step in developing digital workflows for Roche Pharma AG “The main benefit is having all the information structured in one place at any time you can click on an HVAC component and immediately have an overview of all the related information You can access all the available datasheets and make comments within the model on this component.” Pancera sees that Solibri has become the gatekeeper for quality and the main core of his team’s actions “We started customising and creating our own Solibri rules about a year ago We started with our first ideas with classifications and as our team grew we started building up rulesets by ourselves we are at a stage where we go further and start implementing rules which we can then even offer to others out there,” he says opens up even more possibilities for developers to create even more detailed or complex rulesets and Itten+Brechbühl AG is keen on being a part of the development “It’s very interesting how it makes using rules even cleverer and improves our daily processes This creates many advantages and is very useful for us and our clients,” Pancera reflects Civil Engineer: Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Building & Construction Today website is the place to come for compelling and informative features news and products for a diverse audience serving a wide construction sector