Lampenwelt Office Building

13, Seelbüde, Schlitz, Germany

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Lampenwelt Office Building

13, Seelbüde, Schlitz, Germany

Firm

herbertarchitekten

YEAR

2010

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

herbertarchitekten were asked to design the new headquarter of
europes biggest lighting-online-store - lampenwelt.de

The challenge was to transform a former school building, constructed
in the 1960s, into a representative office building.

Due to the huge demand of space, the original flat hip roof was
removed and a new level in wood frame construction was placed
on top.

Naturally, the modernized building fulfills actual german regulations
for energy saving in buildings.

Inside the existing formal order was kept. Stairs and corridors
remained, the former classrooms were transformed into offices.

The street elevation was heavily modified. A new extension houses
the entrance on ground floor. On first floor there´s a representative
meeting room.

Additionally, small rectangular windows. the glas covered with
coloured and transparent foil, are scattered above the facade.

Inside a new steel-constructed staircase, with 8cm thick stairs of
natural stone, combines the ground and first floor.

Staircase as well as the extension and the foil-covered windows
are lit spectacularly with colour-changing LEDs.

Architects and client decided to create a modern but decent feeling
inside - realized through a combination of black granite, glass,
white walls and ceilings.