City in the city: BIG unveils plans for ESET Innovation Centre in Bratislava

City in the city: BIG unveils plans for ESET Innovation Centre in Bratislava

BIG unveiled plans for ESET’s new headquarters in Slovakia. Construction of the electricity-based, artificial intelligence and innovation campus is expected to start in 2024, with a planned opening in 2027.

ESET’s new headquarters will be located on the site of the former military hospital in Patrónka, in the west of Bratislava. BIG’s design team, in collaboration with Inflow, Pantograph, Burohappold and Arup, is developing a technology district: the final design includes twelve scattered building structures of different sizes and functions, organized around a central courtyard. The structures on the edge of the 50,000 square meter site will function as community spaces, while the four building units in the central part of the site will house 1,500 ESET employees. The curved building complexes follow the shape of the neighboring hills, while the north-western side of the campus opens onto a park filled with public spaces for relaxation, interaction and recreation, enhancing local biodiversity. “Rather than a single hermetic entity, we have dissolved the ESET campus into an urban village of interconnected buildings, framing public paths and urban squares,” says Bjarke Ingels, BIG’s creative director.

Source: Designboom

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