Blaas

Executive's office.

Project details

• Project Name: Blaas
• Location of Site: Bozen, Italy
• Design Team: monovolume architecture + design
• Project Type: Commercial building
• Client: Blaas general partnership
• Site Area: 970 sqm
• Built-up Area: 1.250 sqm
• Cost of Construction: 2.5 Million Euro
• Date of completion: 2007

Open space office.

Words from the architect

The projects Blaas is the fruit of a special focus to the client's needs, the context and the utilization. For the Blaas project, a trading firm for the solid building, a contained architecture in fair faced concrete and glass gives maximum prominence and visibility to the displayed items.

3rd floor roof garden with skylight.

The main materials used in this projects are concrete for the structure and glass for the facade. The building with a full glass facade extending across two floors resembles a showcase. A balcony extending approximately five meters serves as a canopy for the customer entrance and also as an employee outdoor area for special workshop activities.

3rd floor roof garden with skylight.

The entrance area features an inviting free standing stairway with an organic stairway opening and a skylight above. This skylight allows excellent two-sided illumination of the office work places. The massive construction style provides enough thermal mass to allow the building to absorb heat during the day and to release it during the night.

Changing-room.

Detail glass facade east elevation.

Detail glass facade with glass fin.

Detail glass facade with glass fin.

Detail of the main-stair.

Detail of the main-stair.

Detail of the main-stair.

Detail of the main-stair.

Detail skylight.

Detail skylight.

Main stair.

Shop-main-stair.

Southeast elevation.

South elevation.

South elevation.

Southwest elevation.

Southwest elevation.

Staircase.

Staircase.

West elevation with entrance and staircase.

West elevation with entrance and staircase.

Credits

• Text: monovolume architecture + design
• Photographs: Oskar Da Riz