Project Description
Working as developers, builders, and managers, Losinger Mazzi is a global actor in the real-estate industry. As part of their “2020 Vision” focused on urban regeneration and smart cities, they challenged Studio Banana to design a new home for their Lausanne regional agency in the Oassis neighbourhood they developed and built in the town of Crissier.
The result is a workspace that communicates their strengths and capabilities, reinforcing the company culture internally and helping them to transform from builders into co-creators of built environments.
The honesty of the construction within the space showcases their capabilities to potential clients and collaborators; while the thoughtful distribution of teams and the strategically designed catalyst spaces break silos and create connections between departments to boost collaborative thinking and interaction.
Our co-design process was instrumental in building a strong relationship with our client so that we could create a common language and have a shared understanding of their needs and desired impact.
Losinger Marazzi’s top management wanted their involvement in the project to extend beyond giving a brief and approving the final proposal, and it was crucial to them that their users’s voices be included. We accomplished this close collaboration through relationship building, training a group of employee ambassadors, conducting surveys, and fostering an online community to collect insights from users.
The final result is a space that strengthens knowledge sharing within a large, varied company and that reflects its culture and history in every detail.
We are especially proud of how we helped them transition from builders to co-creators, demonstrating how to empower stakeholders at every level across the ideation, design, and execution stages of the project in order to create a change-making space.