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Architects
bauzeit architekten / Roberto Pascual, Peter Bergmann, Yves Baumann -
Location
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland -
Area
1500.0 m2 -
Project Year
2007 -
Photographs
Text description provided by the architects. The area of the operation center's complex extends to both sides of the street. To be able to guarantee good operating procedures, the program was concentrated on one side of the complex, two buildings forming a courtyard, which offers large outdoor areas and yet remains compact.
Following the topography of the land, two buildings forming an elongated shape area ends on a court for maneuvering. Its shell is made of strips of wood non-roughly or treated. It creates a vertically oriented texture, which in dialogue with the structure of the forest filtering the light and look. It creates a vertically oriented texture, which in dialogue with the structure of the forest stands and views and light possible. The building served as deposit and shelter for vehicles and machinery.
The building's head marks the entrance of warehouses and houses the surfaces of sale. The second building, at two levels, is positioned behind the first. It is covered with a simple wooden wall pierced by large windows. At ground floor, it houses the locker room, the carpentry workshop and the plant room, and the first floor, the administration.
