ERCO P3 automatic high-bay warehouse

Among the awarded architectural works from last year in Germany, there was also a warehouse. It's no wonder, P3 Erco banishes nightmares.
During the day, the large-scale warehouse of P3 by Erco appears calm - an elegant building dominated by a transparent facade and products stacked in a vast storage space, but at night it transforms into a dazzling, almost dreamy affair. The building's skin rhythmically shines with barcodes in almost dance-like configurations, and solo amber lines do not lag behind.
The architects of the warehouse for the world’s leading light manufacturer and a giant in the field of lighting engineering are renowned creators from Frankfurt, Till Schneider and Michael Schumacher, advocates of the harmony of function and appearance, who specialize primarily in corporate buildings. Schumacher trained under Norman Foster and, like him, prefers to work with hi-tech glazed facades - they give his buildings transparency and make them easily readable. They describe their approach to architecture as pragmatic poeticism. "For one problem, there can always be multiple technical solutions, but probably only one contains a certain poetic aspect, or elegance, or just a surprising idea," as they themselves say. In the case of P3, the moment of surprise will surely not pass you by, and the building is thus more than just an impressive corporate business card. It is especially praised by the insatiable residents of Luedenscheid.