We designed a new headquarters for Roshen Chocolate, Ukraine's largest confectionery manufacturer. Conceptually, a large hall that echoes with the existing industrial structures will function as the complex's missing piece in their Kiev campus. This large hall needed to provide for two differentiated administration programs. Our proposal maintains the separation of the different elements, but at the same time, keeps a visual relationship between the parts. Conceptually, we present the project as an industrial hall with an in-between floating shape. From below, this suspended floor acts as a unique ceiling topography. From above, we cut the floor with a set of closed arcs that organize the office floorplan. In addition, we dispose of closed circular offices nested in the slab that offer a more intimate reunion space. The unique shape of the slab helps facilitate the aggregation of the different office departments without partition walls. We propose a fluid open office plan without losing the relationship to the intimate scale with this scheme. By repeating just three unique column shapes, we achieve spatial complexity and depth with few elements.
The Roshen Chocolate Headquarters was designed while I was at EM2N Architekten in collaboration with Fabian Hörmann, Isabel Gomes, Florian Kaiser, Roger Kung, Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli and Fabien Oulevay.