Kadawittfeldarchitektur GmbH

Adidas Laces

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher

MANUFACTURERS
Lindner Group

PHOTOGRAPHS
Werner Huthmacher

AREA
62000.0 m2

 YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Germany

CATEGORY
Office buildings

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher

Text description provided by architect.

Research and development building with 1700 working places at the adidas World of Sports campus in Herzogenaurach.

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher
Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher

In contrast to conventional office typologies, the ring structure developed by kadawittfeldarchitektur lends to the building a double relationship to the landscape – both to the outer surroundings and to the communicative landscape of the atrium.

The connecting walkways, “Laces”, efficiently open up access to all office areas without the need to cross through other departments.

At the same time they transform the atrium into a creative center of the building that provides an identity.

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher
Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher

The new Laces blends into the existing World of Sports ensemble as a floating counterpart to the black, recumbent mass of the adidas Brand Center.

Its clearly contoured volume positively invites the surrounding campus to find a continuation within its interior, an atrium with a controlled climate.

Lined up in a circular arrangement, the office areas with their large glazed surfaces open onto the atmospheric inner space and the remarkable landscaped space.

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher
Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher

The connecting walkways that cross the atrium, the Laces, “tie” the built volume together, as it were, to form a many-layered office building that is rich in relationships.

They enable a maximum of interaction and allow open areas of communication to emerge.

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher
Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher

As delicate connecting bridges, they weave a poetic spatial structure into the interior and thus make the special creative atmosphere of the building legible.

The result is an inspiring place for research and product development.

Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher
Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher


Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher
Adidas Laces
© Werner Huthmacher


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Kadawittfeldarchitektur GmbH
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Kadawittfeldarchitektur GmbH
Aureliusstraße 2, 52064 Aachen, Germany