Headquarters Brunner AG Furniture Solutions

By building its Swiss headquarters directly beside the A1 motorway the firm of Brunner (formerly Sedorama AG) steps boldly onto the big stage. Our architecture takes as its theme the firm’s core values: customer orientation and innovation. The firm does not sell ready-made designs here; but rather designs are adapted to meet clients’ needs. The hybrid building is a warehouse, dispatching centre, and workshop but also a showroom and an eye-catcher. Our principle of ‘both and’ is strongly evident in the design: the building is spectacular and restrained at one and the same time, efficiently constructed but also poetic and opulent. It is positioned at an interface between the poles of a utilitarian, functional architecture and its special role as a headquarters. Slightly concave on both sides, the volume turns towards the cars that drive past and creates an arrival space on the side facing the car park. Inside, the spatial principle of a cascading series of levels provides a real surprise. At the entrance a staircase brings you up to the piano nobile. From there the exhibition extends across a series of internal terraces connected by stairs. All surfaces are either left untreated or painted white. This powerful neutral background forms the stage for an exciting presentation of the products. Large windows draw your gaze outside across the motorway and into the hilly landscape around Bern. The facade conceals while also arousing curiosity. In a perforated metal membrane large panorama windows sit like eyes. At first glance the way they are placed seems arbitrary; it is only when you are inside the building that you grasp the logic behind it.