Vly
An immersive HQ to experience the Future of Milk
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Year
- 2022
The vly Vision
An immersive HQ to experience the Future of Milk Within the iconic historical building of Alte Post in Berlin Neukölln, we designed a vision for the new vly headquarters, including a prototyping lab and public Future Food Café where everyone could experience the latest innovations in food-tech. Vly is developing plant based milk-alternatives that are both delicious and nutritious. For their headquarters, we envisioned a space where people understand more about the science and be become involved in the emerging field of Food-tech.
Vly & Smart Lab Architects - Alte Post Vision
Discover
The look and feel of the spaces were inspired by vly's brand identity and the company culture. The building geometry overlaps with this aspect and is translated into the spatial volumes and furniture elements. In the heart of Berlin Neukölln, next door to the City Hall, we found this dream site for vly thanks to our friends at real estate developer coros, who owned and revitalized this historic building. Being located in one of the busiest areas of Berlin, the vly headquarters would become the perfect hot spot for the community to experience vly's range of products and for food-tech companies to share their innovations.
Virtual Tour
We made a 360° virtual tour to optimize our planning process and also to communicate with our client quickly and accurately. You can experience the space if you were there, taking the two escalators from the main entrance into the counter hall of the post office, an architectural monument from the 1980's. At the time we made the tour, the Alte Post was a raw diamond under construction. Nothing was visible of what would come and thus, we are allowed to digitally show you around this historic building. Discover modern and historic architecture combined in a unique building.
Design
The complex floor plan had to be analyzed and zoned to have separate but interconnected functions, each with it's own access while creating a journey for the external visitors. Spatial planning takes into account the factors on site and retrofitting the building with services that are required to run a lab. The lab, office and common areas are planned to visually be barrier-free. Architecture can change how teams work and interact and we aim to create a human centric work environment.
Bioprocessing
Our intent was to break the traditional notion of how labs would be in isolated closed rooms. Here, all rooms are interconnected with each other, both visually and spatially. Around the lab rooms, there are focus and collaborative zones for the vly team.
Community
We designed the Future Food Café as a journey where visitors can learn about the future of food before tasting it. A flowing layout easily connects the café, flexible workspaces, and an inviting terrace garden. For the actual food development, we created a minimalist sensory room. By keeping the design completely neutral and free of visual distractions, experts can focus entirely on perfecting new flavors.
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