Schwäbisch Media is an office building for a publishing company active in many facets of both traditional and new media. Six protruding glass-walled cubes define and compose the project, with their proportions and dimensions based on the surrounding traditional German fachwerk villas. These six working areas have been stacked on top of a transparent ground floor, through which access is afforded to each, creating a new urban typology in the center of this medieval city. Wrapping the project’s perimeter is a glass fence, varying in height from 1-4.5 meters, allowing the building to be perceived as one continuous urban intervention that fluidly interweaves interior and exterior.

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Location
Karlstraße 16
D-88212 Ravensburg
Germany

Program
Office

Size
13.800 m2

Date of design
2008-2009

Date of completion
2013

Project team
Wiel Arets, Bettina Kraus, Carsten Hilgendorf, Uta Böcker, Tobias Gehrke, Ramón Alvarez-Roa, Ole Hallier

Collaborators
Deniza Radulova, Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer, Felix Thies, Raymond van Sabben

Client
Schwäbischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Consultants
ABT, SSF-Ingenieure AG, Müller-BBM GmbH, HL-Technik GmbH, IHG-Technik GmbH, Winter lngenieure GmbH