| |
| |
 |
The design brief calls for a new building complex which
adjoins with and complements the WIPO's existing headquarters
building at the corner of Route de Ferney and Giuseppe
Motta in Geneva, Switzerland. The scope-of-works is for:-
|
•
|
a new office building for 500-staff,
several meeting rooms, underground parking, a cafetaria,
service areas and links to the main WIPO building.
This is planned to comprise (say) 5-storeys fully
above ground, an upper and lower ground floor, 3
underground floors for carparking, and a further
underground floor for storage. |
|
•
|
a 600-seating capacity conference
room with related facilities, equipped with modern
interpretation facilities (at least 6 languages),
appropriate computer and audio-visual equipment.
This should be located in the immediate proximity
of the conference and meeting facilities in the
main WIPO building. |
|
•
|
enlargement and restructuring
of the lower floors of the main WIPO building, notably
to provide parking facilities for delegates and
visitors, and for receptions to take place in conjunction
with the office building and conference room projects. |
|
|
|
Our design objective is to create
for WIPO a world class state-of-the-art building of excellence
which fully meets WIPO's requirements, as an ecologically-sustainable
low-energy and bioclimatically-responsive design, and
which blends in with the site and with the existing WIPO
building.
The builtform of the new facility is designed to be immediately
comprehensible and logically in its planning. The conference
hall and its support facilities is placed next to the
existing WIPO tower, whereas the new office spaces stretch
as a new wing over the new site facing Route de Ferney,
from levels 2 to 5. For the basement floors, the service
area is contained within the a single level of Basement
1, whereas the carparking is located in the 3 levels below
this. The main frontage of the building is facing the
Route de Ferney, which is also where the main vehicular
drop-off to the WIPO building complex is, which is a semi-covered
porte-cochere between the conference hall entry, existing
building and the entry into the new office wing, serving
the conference users as well as the office staff.
The key unique features of our design (which is elaborated
in sheets 1 and 2 of our Design Statement) are:-
|
|
Well-considered security features
and internal circulation to meet WIPO conference
delegates and WIPO staff requirements. |
|
•
|
A simple building spatial concept
that is easily coherent for conference delegates,
visitors and WIPO staff to use. |
|
•
|
Building aesthetics that are
appropriate to the locality, street frontage and
which integrate well with the existing WIPO building. |
|
•
|
Excellent internal flexibility
in room layouts and space planning of the floor
plates. |
|
•
|
'Green' passive low-energy bioclimatic
design responses |
|
|
Unique value-added features of
this design for WIPO in:-
|
•
|
maximising of natural daylighting
to the internal spaces of the building. |
|
•
|
all-year seasonal use of
the unenclosed atrium courtyard. |
|
•
|
fully integrated mechanical,
electrical and information technology (IT)
systems with the building. |
|
•
|
integrated photovoltaic
cells at the southerly facade and on the roof. |
| |
considerations for future
flexibility and expansion of the complex. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
