Wattens Workshops - 1st stage | obermoser + partner architekten zt gmbh

Wattens / Austria / 2018

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In Wattens, Austria, a public-private partnership inaugurated the former Swarovski factory compound “Werk 2”. The project, a collaboration between obermoser + partner architekten and Schlögl & Süss, brought the building to new life with a cautious intervention of restauration and re-use.


The polishing workshops from 1906 changed their former function, converted into an international center for founders and young start-up companies including offices and workshops. The intervention consisted in freeing the former industrial structure from posthumous additions, recovering spatial sequences and finally adding new spatial elements, clearly distinguishable.

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    In Wattens, Austria, a public-private partnership inaugurated the former Swarovski factory compound “Werk 2”. The project, a collaboration between obermoser + partner architekten and Schlögl & Süss, brought the building to new life with a cautious intervention of restauration and re-use. The polishing workshops from 1906 changed their former function, converted into an international center for founders and young start-up companies including offices and workshops. The...

    Project details
    • Year 2018
    • Work started in 2017
    • Work finished in 2018
    • Main structure Mixed structure
    • Client Daniel Swarovski KG
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Adaptive reuse of industrial sites / Office Buildings / Offices/studios / Industrial facilities / Interior Design / Custom Furniture / Recovery/Restoration of Historic Buildings / Restoration of façades / Recovery of industrial buildings / Art studios/workshops / Building Recovery and Renewal
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