Pachleitner Uniopt Headquarters Group / GS Architects

A score above ground architecture in the city, a new and distinctive entrance to the city, a potential future-oriented development throughout the area.

Put a company under the spotlight means the transformation of a philosophy of architecture. The “Black Panther” is not only retells the story of the company, but also their emotional, it describes a vision and a physical and verifiable sculptural. Where the design and how it evolves, ideas emerge and come to mass demonstrations. Elegant and fine, “Black Panther” and speed up the desire for urban architecture. Her large eyes are focused on the street, the movement and shape in the dance mix of forces and night.

MP09 office building, named after the same business owner, Michael Pachleitner, “Black Panther”, try to be a landmark for the city, a new entry in Graz in 2006, the Pachleitner Group, which specializes in design and marketing of shows and jewelry, and Wegraz (Graz company for a renewal and urban redevelopment), prepared a contest for an office building and hotel, as well as for the headquarters building with a wing to be leased, a ships store and a restaurant. Both projects started in 2006, with 9 offices in the competition according to the unanimous decision of the jury.

During the competition phase, the photos in the client’s offices, airplanes, boats and cars, expressed the feeling I wanted to convey in the building. We derive here the guiding idea of ??a black panther crouching, ready to jump, which provides a metaphor that describes in detail both sides of the building and was followed to the finish: create a look that was powerful and elegant. The detail of the plans for the project, and program implementation started immediately thereafter.

The construction of this project began 32 million euros in the summer of 2007, was completed in May 2010. A separate building in a provision set out in various ways by the Sports Stadium UPC Arena, Murpark, residential blocks and houses. It is located directly on the ring road Liebenau, which is a source of high traffic and emissions in a roughly triangular area that originally had a slope to the southwest. The main part of this provocative and outstanding office building contains the headquarters of a local company lens design and jewelry, and worldwide distribution.

It’s a hard way sculpture covered with a black glass facade standing on a concrete base develops from a compact to a cantilever tip toward the city. The different directions of the structure of the building are recovered in the inner structure of space. Since almost all positions are seen throughout the building to the outdoors. A spatial quality of the building is moving in the individuality of design technical solutions with respect to the facade, partition walls, doors, stairs and many other components.

Precise details and some colors on various surfaces and materials define the interior. Even all the furniture was specially made by architects and is therefore consistent with the architecture.
The desired expression of a dynamic tension and concentrated, amplified by long strips of windows, natural make the company’s philosophy that allows a small family business after the war to become a global company.