The plan for the garage and office building for the state government of upper austria resulted from a limited open design competition in 2002 in which Caramel took first place.
Although the organizer’s brief called for a linear alignment of the functional units, Caramel arranged the main functional units in a u-configuration around a transparent covered interior yard. situated in the west wing are the two-level office building as well as the employees’ changing rooms and washrooms; directly adjacent to these are the special-service shops, e.g. the sandblasting and painting booths........more