The intervention carried out by Pedevilla Architects reinterprets the transformation carried out in 2002. The staircase core acts as access to the building by reorganising the entrance, and new open and individual office spaces are created, creating various meeting places for employees and managers.
Natural lighting and sound insulation conditions are improved by two courtyards with integrated skylights that allow natural light to enter, creating contemporary work spaces. These two courtyards also provide breakout spaces protected from noise from other busy floors.
One of the most notable elements of the interior is the predominant use of smooth green-pigmented concrete and the different surface structures of black steel and glass.
Beton Eisack Headquarters Renovation by Pedevilla Architects. Photograph by Gustav Willeit.
Project description by Pedevilla Architects
In the course of an extension from 2002, the headquarters of the company Beton-Eisack in Klausen had been supplemented by a striking office building by the architects Armin Blasbichler and Matthias Rainer, which forms the entrance to the company premises in a floating manner. 20 years later – while maintaining the existing outer shell of the building – the aim of the current project was to create functionally efficient and pleasant premises that meet the company's changed needs since then and give the concrete developed and produced there as an atmospheric building material. At the heart of the project is an area for seminars and other events.
The building is accessed via a stair core, which rearranges the entrance situation at a central location. In the suspended structure, a future- and demand-oriented mix of open-plan and individual offices with various meeting opportunities for employees and managers was also created.
With two courtyards and several dome-like skylights, the daylight situation as well as the sound insulation compared to the existing inventory are significantly improved, which achieves a contemporary working atmosphere. The two courtyards simultaneously create noise-protected open areas for employees in the busy concrete plant on the Brenner motorway.
The headquarters of the concrete plant is an identity-creating headquarters that interprets the transformation 2002-2022 according to the motto “from grey to green” and carries out with various toton technological possibilities. The existing grey concrete shell will retain its established “brand message” unchanged. Characteristic of the interior, on the other hand, is the predominant use of green pigmented lightweight concrete with different surface structures, black steel and glass.
