ARRI views ARRIAL as a campus that will allow for new forms of collaboration. Optimized work flows, shorter distances, better communication: The employees are to be given optimal conditions in which to be innovative well into the future. After all, production at ARRI has changed considerably in recent years. For example, ARRI now performs its own sensor bonding in a clean room. Innovation remains enormously important for ARRI. Not for nothing has the research and development staff tripled over the past four years.

Architect Achim Hoffmann from Hoffmann Amtsberg in Graefelfing also addressed the guests. He reflected on the design of the building, its peculiarities and challenges. “ARRI did not want a normal commercial building, but a house that gave space to several hundred individualists, creative engineers, and freelance film makers. On behalf of my co-workers and project partners, I would like to thank the building’s owners for the opportunity to create an extraordinary house for an extraordinary company,” said Achim Hoffmann. The building’s shell is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017 with the current plan to move the first departments in by December 2018.

The ceremony came to a close with the sealing of an engraved metal box containing the current edition of the customer magazine ARRI News as well as several daily newspapers. Dr. Joerg Pohlman concluded: “Let us lay the foundation. The foundation for a new building and for a successful future. To the next 100 years!”

Photos: ARRI/Bernd Wackerbauer

The image above shows (from left) Felix Mayer (apprentice at ARRI), architect Achim Hoffmann (Hoffmann & Amtsberg in Graefelfing), the Mayor of Munich Josef Schmid, and Dr. Jörg Pohlman (Executive Board member of the ARRI AG).