Bobst Headquarters Restaurant
2010 · Suisse, Mex · Public » Hotel & Restaurants
This project to organize and extend an industrial headquarters complex in the countryside of the French Swiss Canton of Vaud explores the richness of the relationship between the built ensemble and the rural landscape it occupies. Since 1974, the Bobst Group, major producers of machinery for the manufacturing of packaging materials, has occupied this 29-hectare parcel in a bucolic setting to the west of greater Lausanne, straddling the three communes of Mex, Villars-Sainte-Croix, and Vufflens-la-Ville. In 2012, Bobst decided to centralize all of its production activity in Mex. A new building at the main entrance to the site was designed to accommodate 6,100 square meters of office space as well as a vast showroom and training facility spanning another 4,000 square meters. At the other end of the site, next to an existing sports field and gymnasium, a second new building was designed to house a restaurant – a glass pavilion offering views of the near and distance landscape – and a day care center for up to 40 children. Across from this, an existing production facility was extended to increase factory space by 14,000 square meters.
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