Sports Center Oerlikon
Project Category: Competitions (not realized)
Old Warteck-Areal, Riehenring
Housing Project Areal Schleife
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Zurich University of the Arts, Toni-Areal
Housing Development Broëlberg III
Urban Development Study Manegg
The former Sihlpapier site, located in the south of Zurich, in Manegg, is characterized both by a special lenticular form and by an island-like isolation. The river Sihl, the Sihlkanal, as well as the forest embankment to the highway and the highway itself have a shape-forming and isolating effect. The centered traffic axes of the cantonal road and the SZU railroad line form two similarly shaped sites with slightly different characteristics: The western side tends to be better connected to traffic and nonetheless more quietly situated against the Sihl than the eastern side, behind the SZU tracks and constrained by the highway. The central plots between these main traffic routes create a kind of backbone.
Housing Development Schaffhauserstrasse
Café Kunsthalle Zürich
In the phase of interim use, the art institutions in the former beer brewery Löwenbräu planned a café on the roof terrace of the historic building. The intention was to provide a public space for the district, which at the time was still of predominantly industrial character. Together with the text installation by Jenny Holzer, the added construction would mark the shared entrance and point to the Kunsthalle in particular.
The elongate, slender box hovers above the erstwhile workshops, protrudes into the street space and acts as a signal. In analogy to the nearby bridges and viaducts, it is conceived as a prefabricated steel frame resting on few supports. A wooden room is inserted into the frame. The structure of steel and wood stands in contrast to the materials of the existing building with its red and yellow brick facade. From the inside, floor-to-ceiling “display windows” offer views out to Limmatstrasse, where passers-by on the street catch glimpses of the interior.
The subsequent comprehensive renovation and extension of the entire premises made the project redundant.
New Building Campus Platztor University St.Gallen
