Working together rethought

Think differently, work differently

Our attrac­tive work­ing envi­ron­ment is Burg Solo at Amerikas­traße 15 in Gar­rel in Oldenburg’s Müster­land region. Despite its name and octag­o­nal floor plan with walls 76 cm thick, how­ev­er, this is not a medieval cas­tle, but an office build­ing that is for­ward-look­ing in every respect. The cre­ative work­ing envi­ron­ment on 850 square meters man­ages with­out heat­ing, con­sumes only min­i­mal resources in oth­er respects and is a com­mu­ni­ca­tion hub in our region, the Sil­i­con Val­ley of agri­cul­tur­al tech­nol­o­gy.

Open for business

In spring 2023, agma­da­ta moved into Burg Solo. In addi­tion to its own busi­ness premis­es, the com­pa­ny oper­ates a spa­cious co-work­ing and hub space there. In the Farm&Food Hub, green start-ups and estab­lished com­pa­nies can net­work along the agribusi­ness val­ue chain. A plenum allows agile col­lab­o­ra­tion, such as in sem­i­nars, work­shops, hackathons and sim­i­lar for­mats. Of course, the equip­ment is also designed for vir­tu­al col­lab­o­ra­tion, such as in video con­fer­ences and sym­posia with inter­na­tion­al experts.

Different from the ground up

The future work­spaces in the open co-work­ing space in the coun­try­side can be rent­ed by new­ly estab­lished com­pa­nies at favor­able con­di­tions. They thus not only become users of the Farm&Food Hub, but can active­ly par­tic­i­pate in the ani­mal and food-relat­ed projects that are cre­at­ed there. Nowhere in Ger­many are there bet­ter con­di­tions for such a con­vert­er sta­tion between sci­ence and prac­tice. After all, Old­en­burg­er Mün­ster­land and the neigh­bor­ing regions are the cen­ter of ani­mal and food pro­duc­tion with com­plex pro­duc­tion process­es and all the asso­ci­at­ed chal­lenges.

Prepared for climate extremes

The inspi­ra­tion for the build­ing comes from Lus­te­nau in Vorarl­berg. This is where the “Office Build­ing 2226” is locat­ed, which always main­tains a com­fort­able tem­per­a­ture of between 22 and 26 degrees with­out any heat­ing, ven­ti­la­tion or cool­ing. Thanks to its thick exte­ri­or walls, the new office octa­gon in Gar­rel is also com­plete­ly decou­pled from the out­side cli­mate. Thus, the heat out­put of the peo­ple and equip­ment work­ing there, togeth­er with intel­li­gent ven­ti­la­tion, is quite suf­fi­cient to achieve the desired tem­per­a­ture. Nev­er­the­less, an intel­li­gent back­up sys­tem is pro­vid­ed for extreme cli­mate sit­u­a­tions.