Marc O'Polo officially opens new House of Product

After a construction period of around one and a half years, the modern, 2500-square-meter, three-story office building at the company's headquarters provides space for around 150 employees. It was designed by Steidle Architekten, Munich, with interior design entrusted to Studio Thiersch, Munich. In keeping with Marc O’Polo's philosophy, there is a strong focus on sustainability.

All design and product development departments will find their new home in the House of Product in order to centralise the concentration of competencies and shorten coordination paths.

Marc O'Polo was founded in Stockholm in 1967 and has been represented at the Stephanskirchen location for 38 years. At the end of the 1990s, the company headquarters were located here. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the Marc O'Polo Campus on Hofgartenstraße has been continuously expanding. "The new House of Product is a milestone in the history of Marc O'Polo, an innovative place for creativity, inspiration and collaboration. The focus is on the product," said Werner Böck, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and majority shareholder of Marc O'Polo SE. "It is an investment in our employees, who are given the necessary space and inspiring environment for creative ideas here. I would like to express my warmest thanks to everyone involved for the great implementation and to wish all employees joy, happy work and much success in their new workplace."

"It makes us proud that we were able to realise the construction of the House of Product despite these challenging last years for the fashion industry. Instead of the traditional division into individual product disciplines, the innovative spatial concept of the House of Product brings together talents from different areas of product creation, strengthens cooperation and enables a new form of collective working. The building, with its new concept, underlines our position as a TOP employer, nationally, internationally and far beyond the fashion industry," says Maximilian Böck, CEO of Marc O'Polo SE.

MODERN WORK x HOUSE OF PRODUCT

As a concrete skeleton structure, the two lower floors generate as much flexibility and space utilization as possible. The generously glazed steel-frame facade maximises natural light and the relationship to the outdoor space, the campus and the landscape. The top floor, a wooden pavilion, contains further offices as well as an event area and is surrounded by a wrap-around roof terrace with a view of the Alps.

SUSTAINABILITY x HOUSE OF PRODUCT

In the spirit of sustainability, the architects integrated a photovoltaic system and a heating/cooling system that uses a groundwater heat pump for the building. In addition, e-charging stations for electric vehicles were installed in a 1,000-square-meter underground parking garage, complementing those already in place at the campus. In procurement, Marc O'Polo focused on materials that were as sustainable as possible (including recycled materials) and relied on regional suppliers.