In mid-February 2021 a proposal for designing office corridors on all floors of the Federal Police Headquarters in Potsdam was submitted for an art-for-architecture competition. Under the heading “700 individualised entrances to the offices”, an identifying definition of the individual workplaces was proposed.
on the fourth floor
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on the third floor
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on the third floor
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on the second floor
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on the second floor
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on the ground floor
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The corridors have a fresh, friendly and clear appearance. Nevertheless, they are anonymous and interchangeable. The art concept makes them lively and distinguishable. Individualised entrances to the offices give employees an identifiable place in the building, a kind of “working home”. Every workplace becomes – recognisably– unique and nevertheless – recognisably – belongs to a larger whole. The individual and the collective are the two points of reference that make a (dead) building into a living organism, a complex of shared work. This reinforces the feeling that this is not only a place where processes are handled but where above all people interact with each other. All corridors on all floors are incorporated into the artistic concept. The beholder is not confronted with images but perceives the art in passing. The concept is designed for this situation of perception. As a means of orientation, the floors are distinguished by their own colour climates.