Today re is still a white gate, but soon path is to be free for more research on e-mobility and flexible, open working methods at BMW. A glass connection is planned, not less than one kilometre long, at moment it is still after 400 meters of closure.
Soon, however, he will lead Research and Innovation Centre (FIZ) at Knorrstraße to new Project House Nord. And in two years, when BMW completed first phase of its large-scale fiz future project, all important buildings of BMW Research area in north of Munich Connect. A total of 15 000 people are to work here, 4000 of m in first section, for which foundation stone is laid on Friday.
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Fiz Future-to secure technological future of car company. In coming decades, he wants to expand his research centre massively. BMW 400 million euros alone for first phase of construction, new Project House Nord is to become centerpiece. In addition to fact that existing research centre, which was once designed for 4000 people, bursts from all seams, BMW is also pursuing a number of or goals with new building.
“There are several thousand people working on a vehicle today at BMW,” says architect Martin Hahm, who is responsible for construction of new fiz. By digitizing development cycles would be faster, software in a car would become obsolete after a few years. For BMW, it is more important than ever that currently 26 000 developers in existing centre can better network.
For concept of fiz future This means: more Metropolitan offices and more open spaces, where different forms of work can be combined and ideas exchanged. In addition to larger table groups for project meetings, re will also be “diners” in Project House Nord, as Hahm calls it, small, round seating areas with raised upholstery, “for spontaneous meetings”. And at stand-up meetings at standing tables in large Foyerflächen in atrium, designed for 400 employees, designers, interior designers and project planners can coordinate ir ideas for a new car.
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For example for new BMW Germany. In new research centre, BMW also wants to focus more on development of alternative drives: “The Fiz future will be home of product line that deals with electromobility,” says Hahm. This is expected to employ up to 1000 employees in future, 400 more than before. Every year, according to its own data in research area, BMW is recreating a four-digit number of employees. However, no one knows wher this will continue until planned completion of all buildings of Fiz future in year 2050. In addition, new research complex also wants to develop software and batteries mselves, says Klaus Kapp, project leader of Fiz future.
Klaus Kapp (right) is responsible for construction, for overall project Martin Hahm.
(Photo: Alessandra Schellnegger)
The real architectural gimmick in fiz future is integration of “office and workshop”, as planners call it. This is best seen when Kapp and Hahm move apart miniature model of new building in middle. The continuous, rectangular-oblong complex behind Atriumskuppel of new Project House Nord, se are workshops in which performance of new car models is to be measured on ground floor on heavy test rigs.
In front of it, in floors around a flat Atriumskuppel, through which natural light comes into building, lie large offices. Here designers and engineers are tinkering with ir prototypes. “The development loops also implement architecturally,” Hahm calls it. And if you want peace and quiet from optimally networked open-plan office, you can retire to insulated telephone boxes.
With Fiz future BMW will be more hip
“Diners”, “stand-up meetings” and a special app with which BMW tinkering tables can reserve and regulate lighting and heating-when project planners tell of all se details, it becomes clear that Bavarian traditional group with new Centre also Yet anor, softer goal. One could also formulate it like this: with fiz future BMW wants to become more hip.
And project space, in which two-metre-long model for future of working at BMW stands, gives a taste of it. The ceiling is not suspended, with perforated metal plates, view is free of thick, grey fire-protection water pipes and narrow ventilation pipes. Thus, simple, white-held room reminds a little of factory hall atmosphere in which young start-ups dare ir first steps.
The light comes from led tubes attached to ceiling. With architecture, it is just like with digitisation in car, says architect Hahm. “We don’t know exactly what requirement is in ten years.” Therefore, a building must be as “restrained as possible”, as few installed as possible, “so that it can be used flexibly”. A suspended ceiling only disturbs you-it finally prevents you from being able to connect quickly mobile devices.
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