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Freitag Factory Maag
location: Zürich, Switzerland
client: FREITAG lab. ag
status: Realized
project: 2003
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Producing Freitag's iconic bags demands a significant amount of space – about 2,780 square meters for handling the used truck tarps, from receiving, laying out, trimming, washing, rolling, cutting, sorting, assembling, and sewing them into bags and other products, concluded by their photographing, storing, packaging, re-storing, and ultimately, shipping.

Exceeding those production needs, additional areas are reserved for small exhibitions, staff rooms, and office spaces, newly integrated within the vast production hall, which accommodates forty workstations. Functionally aligned with the original industrial facade, the workstations designated for cutting and assembling the tarps are arranged directly below this new office space, all reinforced by V-shaped pillars maintaining the monolithic floor slab.

The transformation was swiftly realized through prefabricated wooden wall and ceiling elements. Externally, these boxes are enveloped with roofing fabric and adorned with plastic domes. At the same time, inside, they are characterized by a warm ambiance crafted from Pavatex.

spillmann echsle's renovation of this production hall for Freitag in Zurich exemplifies the firm's perceptiveness to existing structures and its aptitude for adaptively reusing them.

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commission: Direct
program: Conversion, Industrial
size: 2575 m²
team: Annette Spillmann, Harald Echsle, Martina Roth
consultants: Henauer Gugler AG
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