Designed by Randecker Architekten + h4a Gessert, WALA Heilmittel GmbH, headquartered in the Swabian town of Eckwälden near Bad Boll, produces and distributes Dr. med. Hauschka natural and organic cosmetics as well as WALA medicines. In response to the increased demand, a new laboratory building was built. The Stuttgart architects h4a Gessert + Randecker Architekten emerged victorious from the invited architectural competition with the idea of giving the entire complex a landscaped dissolved cell structure.
Photography: Zooey Braun
The newly built ?Technikum? is the first of several possible new buildings on the thermal property on the local edge. Like a growing organism, adaptable and open to future developments, the “urban” structure is arranged. A landscape plate, developed from the course of the terrain, connects the particular building complexes and lets them merge into a coherent green area. The world of work becomes part of the landscape and conveys corporate ideology in its outward appearance.
In the first stage, the state-of-the-art ?Technikum? with administrative areas and high-tech laboratories were completed. The public development leads to the central hub, the artificial lake, which strengthens the special relationship to nature and water. Passing “show gardens” with medicinal plants, which “interweave” in the direct front area of the new building with the natural-appearing lake, the visitors and staff are directed to the ...