Project Details
- Project Name
- Bosch Prototype Development Center
- Location
- MI
- Architect
- Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED)
- Client/Owner
- Robert Bosch, LLC
- Project Types
- Office
- Size
- 475,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2007
- Shared by
- HED Communications
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $68,500,000
Project Description
Robert Bosch, LLC has been a part of the Detroit automotive landscape for over 100 years. After decades of growth and innovation, they came to outgrow their primary facility in Farmington Hills, with several smaller offices and labs spilling out across the metro-Detroit area. To streamline their research and development process, Bosch needed a new facility with the space to consolidate and organize their current talent and technologies efficiently, while embodying the agility and pursuit of innovation that defines the Bosch brand.
The new facility, located in Plymouth, MI, provides not just the raw square footage but the flexibility and transparency essential to generating the organic collaboration that drives Bosch’s world-class advances in mobility technology. Offices and customized high-bay laboratory space designed to house electronic and chassis research and development overlook one another across a light filled main street and second-story bridges, uniting the spaces functionally and visually. Office spaces are equipped with flexible and modern furnishings, and the open floorplan is dotted with insulated, transparent office and breakout spaces for both public and private meeting and brainstorming sessions. The facility provides maximum flexibility and mobility for employees, providing a full range of workspaces from indoor and outdoor, large and small, formal and informal, private and public. Personnel work in the spaces most conducive to their needs, moving quickly and effortlessly between functions and departments—taking their ideas with them, maximizing collaboration and sparking creativity not found in traditional cubicle spaces.