ITW Wujiang Interior Design in Flexible and Organic Structure ITW, Wujiang
Industry: Chemical
Building: Office
Workplaces: 65 work places and conference
Type: Open Space
Customer's vision: Modern and health working environment, Flexible for future expansion, maximum desk top usage Open space work group in well planned, consistent style.

Spacious planning with maximum storage capacity for MDC Daetwyler: MDC Daetwyler, Shanghai
Industry: Doctor Blades and electomechanical engravers
Building: Office
Workplaces: 25 work places
Type: Group Office
Customer's vision: Medium and high-end health office, Maximum of storage capacity, Organized work groups in each room

Evaluating existing layout and 4 variations of improved designs: Agco Changzhou
Industry: Agriculture
Building: Office
Workplaces: >300
Type: Open Space Office
Customer's vision: Use space as efficient as possible, maximize workplaces, flexible for future expansion, extra space for team leaders

Vital-Office success story in China

1. German production technology brought to China factories

2. Immediate development of new and adapted products to fit into Chinese market

3. Use of local material and advantages e.g. Green Bamboo

4. Professional concepts instead of cheap and fancy products

5. Quickly furnish well known corporations e.g. Kärcher, Changshu / Jungheinrich, Shanghai / H.C. Starck, Gangzhou / Optima packaging Shanghai

Jungheinrich Qingpu, a 38.000 m2 campus with more than 100 workplaces using Vital-Office furniture, height adjustable desks, new ergonomic saddle like WEY-chair, cabinets, conference tables, reception, cantine and hotel guest room

PLUS Design | Jungheinrich Qingpu, a 38.000 m2 campus with more than 100 workplaces using Vital-Office furniture

PLUS Design | Jungheinrich Qingpu, a 38.000 m2 campus, heated purely on geothermal energy. Around Shanghai, heating and cooling is usually done by air conditioning. The indoor unit provides (hopefully) the required comfort; while the outdoor unit exchanges heat with the outdoor air. In winter, this outdoor air temperature drops well below 0° in winter, while reaching 40° in summer… What if we have this outdoor unit exchange with water running trough an underground-buried pipe instead? Experience learns this water temperature does not drop below 10°, or go over 30°… sounds better!

Security and Privacy are preconditions for creativity and true communication and social intelligence. Here we differentiate: Security through backing = back coverage, Security through protection = shield in front, Security through command = overview of space, Personal territory = privacy = intimate space. In practice, we can observe, if you have no security and no defined private sphere in your workplace, you then unconsciously create alternative private areas in your workplace unconsciously. Like distracting your colleagues - avoiding team work.

Man unconsciously recognizes geometric relationships and as a result also the higher order in design. Mathematically these forms are very complicated, but humans are unconsciously aware of such relations. Who can create complex geometry? Not animals, not plants and not stones. Only the highest spirit in the creation can do this. This ability is a divine gift. If you apply more effort in geometry people can feel it. Since we perceive the effect of a form unconsciously, just like the effect of a color, this also has a specific effect on us. This can vary a great deal. Just like a mix of colors produces a mix of feelings, emotions and tendencies in our way of thinking and influences us in our decision-making, the form has the same effect.

The answer is: In nature.

Obviously, most people have had this experience. Not in buildings but outside in nature. Something happens there in interaction with nature which is different from in an artificial environment. If we think about our archetypical experiences, this becomes more understandable. Our ancestors lived and developed in nature for many thousands of years. First of all, certainly the fight for survival was on the agenda. For example, a monotonous desert with steep sharp-edged rocks was not especially attractive. Monotony and a sharp-edged quality are therefore always regarded as dangerous and hostile to life. In contrast, a lush green landscape with a lot of water and many plants and animals seems like a paradise. You had enough to eat and could devote yourself to craft and many other occupations in a creative way in your spare time. At the same time, the diversity of the paradisiacal nature is the source of inspiration for creative developments.