Office – 5.000m²
Site – 13.000m²
Athlon (Daimler AG) is a provider of vehicle leasing and fleet management and is active across Europe and North America. The Belgian headquarters in Machelen (BE) is an avant-garde approach to workplace design. The corporate strategy was to consolidate several different regional offices at one central location, and implement the core principals of a new way of working (‘anders werken’). The location, a park setting along a residential corridor, is idyllic. Taking the sustainability into consideration, it was decided to refurbish and retrofit the existing building instead of demolition and a new build. The robust concrete structure of the existing building played an important role in this decision, giving our design team the necessary flexibility to thoroughly reimagine the architecture. Going to work is like going home.
