VitraHaus 將作為 Vitra 公司對於未來住宅型態的展示中心，而 HdM 的設計概念相當簡單，以「堆疊」、「擠出」、「壓縮」工業化生產般的手法來處理住宅的複雜空間使用，其內部空間除了做為傢俱展示、展覽場地，還包括商店（禮品店）、咖啡廳及會議室。
高21.3米的VitraHaus 是 Vitra 園區內最高的建築，白天與夜晚呈現出截然不同的景致，日間透過玻璃窗可見到園區環境與遠處山脈，夜晚時則像是大燈籠照亮整個園區。
參觀 VitraHaus 就像是工業設計的歷史之旅，你能看到許多當代設計師的傑出作品，包含Charles & Ray Eames、George Nelson、Isamu Noguchi、Jean Prouve、Antonio Citterio、Jasper Morrison 等足以稱之為「大師」的經典家具都在此呈現，就像 IKEA 般，訪客們可以在現場構思如何妝點居家環境，也可當場透過以電腦訂購商品。
Vitra 品牌開始於1957年，但1981年的一場大火讓位於德國的 Weil am Rhein 廠房付之一炬，卻因此展開了新生命，首先由英國建築師 Nicholas Grimshaw 為其做園區整體規劃，並且設計當中一座工廠，之後 Vitra 更是邀請許多知名建築師為他們設計園區建築，例如英國女建築師 Zaha Hadid 在此實現她的第一件作品「Vitra Fire Station 消防站」，而 Frank O. Gehry 也把歐洲的第一件作品留在 Vitra 變成入口必參觀的館體，安藤忠雄首次踏出日本的作品也在此，其他包括 Alvaro Siza、SANAA(妹島和世+西澤立衛)、Richard Buckminster Fuller、Jean Prouve、Jasper Morrison 等大師的作品都出現在此。
因為 Vitra 的工廠鄰近瑞士巴賽爾(Basel)，因此邀請以 Basel 為總部的Herzog & de Meuron 建築師事務所操刀設計，建築師把在世界各地常看到的斜屋頂房子為原形，深刻地把「回家」的概念帶入建築物中，讓訪客對立體交錯的外觀驚喜不已。
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以下是 Herzog & de Meuron 對於此設計案的描述：：
VitraHaus
Weil am Rhein, Germany
2006 –, planned completion 2009
Over the past few years Vitra has aquired a wide-ranging Home Collection. The quantity and variety of objects by many different designers led to the idea of building a showroom to present the items to the public. There would also be additional space to be used as an exhibition venue for selected parts of the collection or even as an extension of the Vitra Museum itself. A shop, a cafe linked to the outside and conference rooms complete the program.
The 「VitraHaus」is a direct, architectural rendition of the ur-type of house, as found in the immediate vicinity of Vitra and, indeed, all over the world. The products that will be on display are designed primarily for the private home and, as such, should not be presented in the neutral atmosphere of the conventional hall or museum but rather in an environment suited to their character and use.
By stacking, extruding and pressing – mechanical procedures used in industrial production – simply shaped houses become complex configurations in space, where outside and inside merge. The interior is designed as a spatial sequence with surprising transitions and views of the landscape. The landscape in all its variety – the idyllic Tu"llinger Hills, the broad expanse of the railroad tracks, and the urbanized plane of the Rhine – was the incentive to design a building that concentrates on the vertical. In contrast to the other buildings on the Vitra Campus, an essential component of the design involved drawing the outdoors inside.
The anticipated increase in visitors – not only individuals but also many schools and other groups – gave added importance to benches, niches, covered waiting zones and entries. These areas for sitting, standing, waiting, and looking are stamped or cut out of the shape of the houses through simple mechanical manipulations. Given the large number of design objects on view inside, all of these areas are conceived as an integral part of the architecture and not as self-contained objects.
