Schindler Group

Schindler City Center

2020
Movement as Connection
Urban mobility translated into an immersive choreography of light and architecture.

At the Schindler City Center in Ebikon, the mechanics of elevators and escalators become a staged city of movement. The visitor center translates Schindler’s role in global urban mobility into a sequence of spatial experiences where engineering is read through light, image, and motion.

Tamschick Media + Space co-developed and produced three large-scale installations, turning technical precision into a multi-sensory narrative: The Cube, The Cityscape, and The Circle .

Silhouetted audience members seated in front of large illuminated projection screens displaying digital cityscape and worker imagery.
Three rooms, one vertical city

Schindler City is conceived as a model metropolis where everything is in flux: people, cabins, façades, and images. Movement itself becomes the guiding principle of the design.

In The Cube, guests travel through a stylized vertical city via lifts and escalators. The projection wall at the end of the journey opens like an actual elevator door, turning the screen into an architectural threshold that leads directly into The Cityscape. Here, vertical LCD façades glide along a skyline of sculptural towers, revealing shifting views of mobility, technology, and service.

The Circle completes the sequence with a ring-shaped screen that descends from the ceiling at showtime. Around the visitors, a 360° visual composition traces Schindler’s global production and innovation cycles, framed as a continuous loop of movement and return.

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Moving inside Schindler’s choreography

Across the three rooms, visitors are constantly in motion – stepping into elevators, crossing city-like spaces, and gathering beneath the descending ring. Architecture, mechanics, and image are choreographed together so that each transition feels like a change of perspective within one larger city.

The installations express Schindler’s philosophy in spatial form: movement as connection, precision as a designed experience, and technology as something you can walk through and feel.

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A billion rides in a showroom

Schindler wanted to give clients and guests a tangible understanding of what “moving a billion people per week” means in real urban life. The task was to show complex systems of mobility without falling into a showroom of products or a conventional corporate presentation.

The visitor center needed to reflect the brand’s engineering depth and global reach while fitting seamlessly into the new headquarters’ architecture, with installations robust enough for daily use and demanding audiences.

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The Schindler City Center turns abstract metrics of transport performance into an experience, offering Schindler a powerful tool for dialogue with clients and partners about urban mobility, innovation, and design.

It also sets a benchmark for how industrial headquarters can host visitors with thoughtfully choreographed environments showcasing the company’s core competence in the language of space, light, and time.

Project Highlights

  • Three room-scale installations developed as a coherent narrative route: The Cube, The Cityscape, and The Circle
  • Physical integration of moving façade elements and elevator-like doors with synchronized visual content
  • Free-hanging OLED ring with 360° display surface that descends for each show cycle
  • Central show control system linking screen content, light, and kinetic elements for tightly timed presentations

Facts & Figures

Client:
Schindler Group
Location:
Schindler City Center
Ebikon
Switzerland
Type:
Visitor and brand center at global headquarters
Area:
2000 m²
Audience
Schindler clients, partners, and international guests
On View:
Yes
TMS Scope:
Narrative design, Design Concept, Development of Script, Media Scenography, Live Action Studio Shoot, Media Production, Production of 3D assets, Style guide for media applications and motion graphics, Implementation.
Project Partners:

Concept, planning and realization: iart ag 

Keying: Waveline Berlin 

Sound design: Idee und Klang, Basel 

Image Credits: Giuseppe Micchiché and iart

Awards

Red Dot Design Award
Golden Award of Montreux