Schindler City Center
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
Concept, planning and realization: iart ag
Keying: Waveline Berlin
Sound design: Idee und Klang, Basel
Image Credits: Giuseppe Micchiché and iart