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Project Team Partners · Jacques Herzog · Pierre de Meuron · Harry Gugger Project Architects · Peter Ferretto (Associate) · Carlos Gerhard (Associate) · Stefan Marbach (Associate) · Benito Blanco Project Team · Heitor Garcia Lantaron · Estelle Grosberg · Pedro Guedes · Michel Kehl · Miguel Marcelino · Gabriela Mazza · Beatrice Noves Salto · Margarita Salmeron · Stefano Tagliacarne
Project Team Partners · Jacques Herzog · Pierre de Meuron Project Architect · Erich Diserens (Associate) Project Team · Thomas Arnhardt · Matthieu Brutsaert · Sarah Cremin · Gustavo Espinoza · Jeanne-Françoise Fischer · Hans Focketyn · Eik Frenzel · Philip Fung · Marcin Grala · Hendrik Gruss · Verena Lindenmayer · Julian Löffler · Monika Losos · Christian Andreas Müller · Sarah Righetti · Werner Schmidt · Christian Schühle · Günter Schwob · Stefan Segessenmann
Bibliography • Valentin Kessler / Patrick Marcolli, Neue Regierung denkt über den Tag hinaus, in: Basler Zeitung 28 . 9 . 2005.
Project Phases Study · 2001 – 2005
Planning Lead Design Architect · Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, Switzerland Associate Architect · Mateu i Bausells Arquitectura, Madrid, Spain Project Management · Servihabitat, Barcelona, Spain · Construcción i Control, Barcelona, Spain General Contractor · Ferrovial Agroman, Madrid, Spain Structural Engineering · WGG Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure, Basel, Switzerland · NB35, Madrid, Spain MEP Engineering · Urculo Ingenieros, Madrid, Spain
Client · F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland
Building Data Site Area · building site: 1,934 sqm · plaza: 650 sqm Building Footprint · 1,400 sqm Gross Floor Area · 11,000 sqm Building Dimensions · Length 44.00 m · Width 37.00 m · Height 28.00 m
Madrid, in: a+u 8 / 2006 • CaixaForum-Madrid, in: El Croquis, 2006 • Herzog y de Meuron Un muro vegetal frente al Real Jardín Botánico, in: AV 107 – 108, 2006 • CaixaForum Building, Madrid, in: AV 2007 • Project Navi, in: Nikkei Architecture 12 / 2007 • Klaus Englert, Paseo del Arte, Madrid, in: Deutsche Bauzeitung 7 / 2007 • Herzog & de Meuron, in: Building Review, Peking, 340, 2007 • Herzog & de Meuron: un musée par an! in: D’Architectures 160, 2007.
Specialists / Consultants Facade Consulting · Emmer Pfenninger Partner AG, Basel, Switzerland · ENAR, Madrid, Spain Lighting · Arup Lighting, London, UK Acoustics · Audioscan, Barcelona, Spain Green Wall · Herzog & de Meuron in Kollaboration mit Patrick Blanc, Künstler-Botanist, Paris, France Green Wall Consultant · Benavides & Lapèrche, Madrid, Spain
together. The open space, recovered by building vertically, could then be landscaped as a continuation of the park, which would thus extend right up to the historic ensemble designed by the Roche company’s in-house architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg. The architects also envision redeveloping Grenzacherstrasse to include greenery and wider pavements. Setting back the boundary fences and visually opening up the ground floor areas facing the street would transform this busy thoroughfare into a pleasant area that links the company grounds to the city more effectively. For the northern zone, where Herzog & de Meuron have already constructed Building 92 (no. 100) and Building 95 (no. 225), the architects proposed structures of differing heights and floor plan that lend rhythm and variety to the complex as a whole. Hence, the buildings along Wettsteinstrasse are lower in keeping with the residential housing opposite, while the building height increases to 40 meters towards the center of site, allowing round-the-clock production to be concentrated within the grounds. These individual proposals are not integrated into a fixed structure in the manner of a masterplan, but provide inter-related variations that give the company scope for a flexible response to future needs by introducing different architectural patterns.
convertirse en CaixaFórum-Madrid, in: El País, 11 . 2 . 2003 • Pedro Blasco, Otro museo más en el Prado, in: El Mundo 2003 • Raul Cancio, Edificio de Caixa Fórum en el paseo del prado, in: El País 182 / 2003 • Luis FernándezGaliano, Caja de sorpresas, in: El País.com 8 . 2 . 2003 • Thaïs Gutiérrez, CaixaForum desembarca a Madrid, in: AVUI 2003 • Miguel Angel Trenas, Madrid tendrá un CaixaForum en la zona del museo del Prado, in: La Vanguardia 2003 • AV 114, Madrid 2005 • François Chaslin, Bajo el signo de la globalización / In the Global Scene, in: AV 113, 2005 • CaixaForum-
Client · Obra Social Fundación “La Caixa,” Madrid, Spain · Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The Roche healthcare company wanted to explore the possibilities of developing its Basel grounds to accommodate extensions and new strategic functions. The busy thoroughfare of Grenzacherstrasse cuts through the grounds, and so Herzog & de Meuron drew up a study that divides the site into a northern and a southern zone, each with its own specific approach to development. First of all, the site usage was to be streamlined so that the southern zone on the Rhine would be allocated to managerial and administrative offices, while the northern zone would accommodate the production, research and storage facilities. This made the elongated buildings fringing Solitüde Park in the southern zone available for upward extension to open up the site towards the Rhine. After experimenting with a variety of highrise structures, the architects came up with the solution of the office highrise designated as Building 1, where 2400 members of staff previously working in offices scattered throughout the city could be brought
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Bibliography • La Caixa de Herzog y de Meuron en Madrid, in: AV 87, 2002 • Herzog & de Meuron veredeln Luzern. Neues Hotelprojekt, in: Bilanz 1 . 5 . 2002 • B. Cia / C. Serra, Queremos construir grandes torres, in: El País 14 . 9.2002 • F. Samaniego, Cumbre de arquitectos estrella en Madrid sobre el futuro paseo del Prado, in: El País 17 . 9 . 2002 • Herzog & de Meuron. CaixaForum en el paseo del Prado, in: AV 89 – 90, 2003 • La Fundació la Caixa construye un entro social y cultural en El Prado, in: El Mundo 2003 • Un edificio industrial “levitará” para
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