A large retail chain like Baumax conducts professional customer research and plans processes and product presentations in its own departments down to the smallest detail, such as storage rack millimeters and the font on the price tags. The architects' room for maneuver is limited on the inside. The focus remains on the large shape, structure, development and orientation of the building. You don't have to worry about the design of a restaurant area, for example, that is up to others. The glazed, open, friendly sides in the south and east look towards the city. Closed, tidy, with sheet metal facades, the other fronts face the motorway. In the hardware store, which uses every centimeter to spread the patchwork carpet of the product hodgepodge, orientation and spatial awareness is essential.

The imposing size of the building can be grasped and experienced via the double-track moving walkway along the glass facade. The two-storey part of the garden center in the south also appears spacious. The other departments - heavy duty department on the ground floor, tools and room equipment on the upper floor - are one-story. Anyone who threatens to get lost in the shelf canyons is guided by the incidence of light. In the precast concrete construction of the hall, each support was statically optimized. Columns and beams vary in size according to the loads removed. In order to keep the outside area of ​​the garden department tidy, the facade is pulled further as an invisible courtyard wall. The three intended advertising cubes on the roof of the building could be reduced to one - smaller one.