Arranging celebration of the new werkskantine

LUDWIG MERCKLE GmbH & CO kg after completion of the raw and steel construction works celebrated the company Merckle on 26 August 2004 the arranging celebration for their new werkskantine at the location Blaubeuren blaubeuren-Weiler. That light through-flooded new building, which promises work breaks in the midst of from art and nature, is one of several coworker-friendly construction measures, which the Swabian Pharmaunternehmen accomplishes in co-operation with the Aachener general planner Carpus+Partner. Art does not play a special role with a construction measure of the company Merckle for the first time. Thus Carpus+Partner equipped extended solid production in Blaubeuren already before approximately three years also clean-spacefair art showcases - art benefit, which is still unique probably in this form. Behind such a unusual strategy naturally also an intention stands - and a conviction.In the opinion of the Swabian exempt private company, which promotes regional artists for more than twenty years, art forms an important source of inspiration and an engine for the daily work. So itself the coworkers cannot only on their jobs, for which a company-owned fundus from 1500 works of art stands to the order, but leave from now on also during their tracing art to inspire. Because the new werkskantine does not only open extensive views with an interrelation from vitreous and closed front surfaces on the idyllische landscape of the old Danube valley, but also on the sculpture garden of the enterprise. The entrance hall of the building conceived as central main entrance, so that it brightens with its, friendly organization not only as entrance for the cafeteria serves, but also all coworkers and visitors of the work is called welcome.The cafeteria into a light, single-storey steel structure body and a pushed in massive construction body are formally divided as break to the inventory building. The light steel structure connecting with the outside space forms a complementary to the factories of the location and becomes in such a way the "well-being feeling range" the coworker. On the inside divide the building into the initially and entrance hall range, a kitchen with a self-service range as well as a large, split guest area for smokers and nonsmokers. Here 160 persons place find contemporaneous. In the basement of the new building, which was to replace, the old cafeteria already torn off and concomitantly the current interim solution in December 2004, an air-lock with 90 additional covering places was accommodated. Parallel to the building takes place the modernization of covering air-locks for approximately 240 persons, who border in the ground floor.Is planned and coordinated the entire measure, which is to be realized with a planning and a construction period by only twelve months, again by the Carpus+Partner AG.