Swatch and Omega Campus

The campus is a monumental timber project made up of three buildings: the headquarters of one watch brand, the production centre of another, and a museum and conference hall shared by the group. They share a design language, materials and environmental approach, while each building expresses its own character through a contrasting structure.

The headquarters is playful and provocative. Its gridshell roof is made of 7,700 unique timber pieces, designed with specialised software for efficiency and cut to a precision of 0.1 millimetres so that each fitted exactly on site.

The factory, by contrast, is a strict, rigid rectilinear building, its clean-room construction unprecedented for timber. The museum and conference building, which gathers 18 watch brands, links the two figuratively and physically, intersecting the headquarters’ canopy. The Japanese design team made timber the common thread of the whole campus.