SANAA Is known for their unique and remarkable architectural works of art, buildings that have an aura of grandeur yet are usually humbly positioned on site due to their minimalistic use of colour and materials. The Factory Building on the Vitra Campus is no different, Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman of Vitra’s board of directors explained that the decision to grant SANAA the commission was due their ability to accentuate lightness with precision. Rigid form and uncharismatic originality are descriptions that the Japanese founded firm are not associated with in the slightest. They have an architectural philosophy of the removal of everything which is not important, which Fehlbaum recognized and understood. The incomplexity of the design ultimately gives visible form to the requirements of the building in its architecture and structure. SANAA were not interested in creating the perfect geometry, they felt as though a perfect circle, would be too rigid. They decided to design the building with a slightly less mathematical form with a more deformed and organic shape.
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