Novartis Campus in Basel will be an internationally significant place of knowledge, innovation and encounters. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani’s master plan provides for individual buildings to be designed and realized by invited architects. Roger Diener, Federle and Gerold Wiederin designed and realized the first building, the third forum
For the office areas, about 3000 square meters of the heavy-duty, woolen carpet ‘Rep’ were used, in the form of one meter square tiles. In the adjoining restaurant, The easy-maintenance company woolen carpet ‘Flatwool stripe’ which laid over on area of 4500 square metres.It is one ot the aims of this project to foster communication, creativity and the commitment of our associates through to esthetic and functional approach to the design of the working environment. This idea is taking shape with the building servant. Both open into the building interior and thus in the outer spaces, a wide variety of working and meeting areas are being created-providing, transparent, flexible and versatile spaces that offer plenty of scope for interaction and interdisciplinary teamwork. Immensely large colored glass panels dance almost weightlessly in several layers around the building, making it move, gleam and shimmer, responding to the light at Particular times of day and in different weather conditions. Inside office are landscapes whose solid elegance combines open-plan spaces with places of seclusion concentraded.