Asklepios 8 – An Office Building on the Novartis Campus
A new Rhine Front The masterplan of the Novartis Campus in Basel calls for a uniform building height of 23.5 m. Our office building Asklepios 8 is taller because it is situated at the outermost corner of the campus, where the open expanse of the river Rhine invites a different scale. Other taller buildings may flank the Rhine in future, anchoring the campus in the cityscape of Basel. The orthogonal geometry and volume of the Rhine front relates directly to the streets and squares of the campus behind it. A high Building, not a High-rise Asklepios 8 consists of two cubes of almost the same height, placed on top of each other. One is six-story high and 23.5 m tall, corresponding to the height of the neighbouring buildings as defined by the masterplan. The cube on top has seven stories, to compensate the perspectival foreshortening when looking at the building from below or a distance. Between the two cubes, a high open space provides a spacious lounge for a wide spectrum of activities, events, working situations, seminars, etc. By means of cantilever balconies, the two cores further support the spatiality and multifunctionality of this tall room.
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