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Steven Holl Architects along with Rüssli Architekten were selected by Doctors Without Borders as winners of a global contest for designing the organization?s Geneva Operational Center. The winners defeated proposals presented by Emilio Tuñon Arquitectos & Ruckstuhl Architekten, Pool Architekten & Mak Architecture, Sauerbruch Hutton, Consortium Sou Fujimoto, Blue Architects, and the New Talent Workshop.
The project, presented by the winning firms, is clad in brightly colored solar panels on top of the building?s glass façade. The eco-friendly center will offer the staff a variety of working spaces that can accommodate up to 250 employees.
Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten Dubbed ?Colors of Humanity?, the building promotes human interaction via several intersecting pathways. The pathways contain niche-seats, that along with other gathering areas, encourage conversation and collaboration between individuals.
?These centers serve as a friendly catalyst for interaction, acting like social condensers within the building,? Steven Holl Architects commented.
The Foyer. Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten
?Steven Holl Architects? project is the opportunity for MSF to integrate its core values like independence, impartiality, neutrality, altruism and dynamism in a challenging new architecture and project itself in the future,? explained the Logistics Director for the ...