Innocad Architektur ZT GmbH

C&P Corporate Headquarters

C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

C&P CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS

INNOCAD

ARCHITECTS
INNOCAD

AREA
2465 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Paul Ott

PROJECT TEAM 
Patrick Handler, Jörg Kindermann, Martin Lesjak, Elisabeth Krammer, Dominik Gladik

CLIENT
C&P Immobilien AG

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Graz, Austria

C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

Text description provided by architect.

A real estate company’s corporate headquarters, which is located at the highest traffic entrance to Graz, Austria, brings clarity and openness to a flat transition area as a new landmark in this industrial district.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

Additionally, the main goal was to create an authentic example of “Build Identity” for a young company in context within an emerging quarter by transforming their brand icon, contextually and formally, consistently throughout the building elevation.

The concept, CUBEND, translates holistically the firm’s values by unifying the terms “cube” – relating to wholeness and persistence – plus “bend,” standing for movement and individuality.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

Thus, creating a hybrid of an identity- enhancing, activity based, and sustainable environment.

The building’s surface visibly reveals the interaction between people and spaces, as well as their needs in contrast to sealed industrial structures of the surrounding neighborhood.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

Organized as a cube, divided by a curved atrium across all seven floors, the building consists of a glass-dominated core within a floating concrete structure.

The white concrete outer grid integrates an automatic sun shading system that changes dynamically building’s external appearance due to people’s usage and exposure to daylight.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

The facade’s second part, a porch-like area, serves people as a transition space between in and outdoors, particularly as sheltered free space in the summertime.

A third, transparent layer allows natural light access to fragmented office space formations around an elongated atrium.

This multilayered system includes different structural and functional elements for its users, as well as energy-efficient solutions for the building itself.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

One of the main challenges of the space planning was meeting the multi-requirements – foyer, customer area with an apartment mock-up, meeting rooms, open workspaces, creative spaces, and a social area for the employees or for corporate events and lectures – on only 2465 square meters organized on seven floors.

Thus, the layout of the space was optimized in a rectangular grid around the atrium connecting all floors as a vertical communication interface.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott

A central building core includes a staircase and elevator as well as all building technologies and distributes those outwards to the office space through a mesh-like suspended ceiling.

This new ceiling system, which meets the spacial, aesthetic, and acoustic demands, was developed and customized for the building.

With an aim to create an inspiring and healthy workplace by harmonizing the physical, virtual, and social world of work, biophilic aspects were implemented in the interior and exterior concept, which includes plants, rooftop-terrace, balconies, and the buildings foreyard.

C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott


C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott


C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott


C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott


C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott


C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott
C&P Corporate Headquarters
© Paul Ott


C&P Corporate Headquarters


C&P Corporate Headquarters
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C&P Corporate Headquarters
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