Le Vitra Campus et le Vitra Design Museum sont ouverts aux visiteurs tous les jours de 12 à 17 heures. The VitraHaus by architect Pierre De Meuron was built in Weil am Rhein, Germany in 2007-2010. However, by continuing to use the site without changing settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. The latest addition to the complex is the VitraHaus building, a series of stacked pitched-roof boxed, designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Vitra's Home Collection: Save this picture! Built on the north side of the grounds of the Vitra Campus, off the production facilities, the VitraHaus joins two other buildings in this area, The Vitra Design Museum, designed by The amplitude of the field has allowed the new structure is lifted leaving enough distance between itself and existing buildings, and allowing the green space surrounding the entire complex and that it is characteristic of the integrated local landscape as a whole. All images are © each office/photographer mentioned. The rooms open, the ends become glass windows that shine throughout the Vitra Campus and the surrounding landscape. Since the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, did not have a suitable indoor space for the presentation of the new collection of chairs for home, the company commissioned the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron design showroom VitraHaus, in 2006. Renzo Piano aime minimiser le cadre de vie non pas pour des raisons économiques mais par conscience pour la notion de privation. Upon exiting the elevator, glass end of the room that faces north, offering a spectacular view of Cerro Tullinge while at the opposite end the glass is withdrawn, creating an outdoor terrace with a view to Basel and pharmaceutical sector.

The interior walls are finished in white with the aim of highlighting the furniture exposed. On their path through the five stories, visitors traverse the Vitra Home cosmos, ultimately returning to their starting point.The VitraHaus has a daytime view and a night time view. During the day, one gazes out of the VitraHaus into the landscape, but when darkness falls, the illuminated interior of the building glows from within, while its physical structure seems to dissipate. The complexity of the interior space arises not only by the angular intersection of the houses, but also by the integration of a second geometric concept.

VitraHaus The concept of connecting two themes that appear repeatedly in the work of Herzog & de Meuron, the archetypal theme of the house and stacked volumes. Just as interior and exterior spaces interpenetrate, so do two types of forms: the orthogonal-polygonal, as perceived from the exterior, and the organic, which produces a series of spatial surprises in the interior – a 'secret world' (in the words of Herzog & de Meuron) with a suggestive, almost labyrinthine character. Like a small town made up of vertical layers, the project with their striking appearance, not only improved the set of existing landmark buildings, but assumes the important role, due to its location, to mark the entrance to the Vitra Campus. All of the staircases are integrated into expansive, winding organic volumes that figuratively eat their way through the various levels of the building like a worm, sometimes revealing fascinating visual relationships between the various houses, at other times blocking the view.

Diagram WEIL-AM-RHEIN (ALLEMAGNE) [25.02.10] – Vitra dévoile son nouvel espace d’exposition, la Vitrahaus, dessinée par les architectes bâlois Jacques Herzog et Pierre de Meuron. In the afternoon, the perspective is reversed. The deliberate intention was not to create a horizontal building, the common type for production facilities, but rather a vertically oriented structure with a small footprint, which grants an overview in multiple senses: an overview of the surrounding landscape and the factory premises, but also an overview of the Home Collection.

The VitraHaus has a view of day and night view. We understand the quality of this translation is not excellent and we are working to replace these with high quality human translations. Due to the proportions and dimensions of indoor Herzog & de Meuron used the term “domestic level” as the exhibition halls is reminiscent of family residences.

The opposite end – where the glass front is recessed to create an exterior terrace – opens to a panorama of Basel with the industrial facilities of the pharmaceutical sector.

All steps are integrated in the environments expansively as organic volumes are figuratively eating his way through the various levels of the building, sometimes fascinating show visual relationships between the various houses, others block the view. The interior walls are finished in white in order to give priority to the furniture displays.With maximum dimensions of 187 feet in length, 177 feet in width and 69.8 feet in height, the VitraHaus rises above the other buildings on the Vitra Campus. An elevator takes visitors directly to the fourth floor, where he begins a circular route. lejournaldesarts.fr. A lift takes visitors to the fourth storey, where the circular tour begins.