With 35 years of experience and constant curiosity, we develop solutions for the increasingly complex requirements of a future worth living - in a society that is constantly changing.
Profile
We plan urban spaces, develop strategies for districts, cities and regions, realize neighbourhoods and buildings with the aim of shaping our living and working environment together with our clients. We find sustainable solutions for our built environment and implement them. With an international team of around 120 architects and urban planners, we work on a wide range of tasks at all scales: regional strategies and city-wide master plans, neighborhood planning and transformations, urban and strategic master plans for education, healthcare and infrastructure, research buildings and hospitals, educational campuses and schools, office and residential construction. We rely on interdisciplinary cooperation with our tried and tested network of experts.
One company - three locations
Cologne, Karlsruhe and Basel are our locations on the Rhine. However, we are connected by more than just the big river: we see ourselves as a team and work together across locations. All three cities are important cultural and business locations with a liveable urban environment. Cologne is our main location with around 100 employees; ASTOC was founded here in 1990. In Karlsruhe, our focus is on strategic urban and neighborhood development with an interface to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In Basel, our team works on a wide range of projects in Switzerland, where we have been present for 25 years.
How we work
Every project deserves its own answer. We find solutions that are tailored to the needs of our clients, the users and the location. In doing so, we utilize a variety of perspectives: Architects, urban and spatial planners develop spatial and strategic concepts and learn from exchanges with specialist engineers, sociologists, communication designers, data mining experts and real estate developers. Complexity attracts us. We systematically record complex projects and develop comprehensible planning concepts. Transparent communication and bringing together divergent opinions are the key to establishing sustainable, dialogical processes together with our partners. We combine planning standards and time horizons, combining the goals of sustainability with the possibilities of digital planning and construction. We anchor economic efficiency early on in our projects. Our aim is to transform fresh perspectives into concrete plans and to jointly explore new ways of implementation.
Team
Our international team of 120 dedicated and experienced specialists includes urban planners, architects and experts in urban, property and general planning, project and financial management, digital planning and communication. Open exchange, cooperation and mutual trust form the basis for our close collaboration.
Management
Since its founding in 1990, ASTOC has been an owner-managed company. The founders, who met while studying at RWTH Aachen University, have developed ASTOC into a continuously growing firm specializing in architecture and urban planning that is renowned both nationally and internationally. Today, the management team consists of 13 experienced professionals with diverse areas of expertise. This includes the seven shareholders, Associate Partners, and Managing Directors of the subsidiaries. Together, they share responsibility, lead the company in defined areas of responsibility, and represent the firm both internally and externally.
Jobs at Astoc
Welcome to ASTOC! We are looking for talented, committed people who are enthusiastic about good architecture and urban planning, who want to learn from and with each other, young or with professional experience. Our job advertisements contain detailed information about the qualifications we are currently looking for and what we can offer. And if you are convinced that you can support ASTOC with your expertise, regardless of a job advertisement, we would be delighted to receive a speculative application.
Credits: (1) Thomas Hampel, (2) ASTOC) (3) Susanne Troll, (4–6) Nina Gschlößl