Housing Development Schaffhauserstrasse

Location Zurich-Seebach, Switzerland

Programme two 8-storey residential buildings, 140 apartments, with possibility of large shared apartments, care apartments, multi-purpose room

Competition 2005

Client Baugenossenschaft ASIG, Zurich

Team GG Mathias Brühlmann, Andréanne Pochon

Landscape Architecture Schweingruber Zulauf Landschaftsarchitekten, Zürich

Building Services Engineer 3-Plan Haustechnik AG, Winterthur

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.

Location Zurich, Switzerland

Programme Café for gallery visitors, planned temporary until 2006

Feasibility Study 2000 (not realized)

Client Kunsthalle Zürich

Gross Floor Area 100 m2

Team GG Markus Seiler, Pieter Rabijns

New Building Campus Platztor University St.Gallen

Location St.Gallen, Switzerland

Programme University campus, rooms for teaching, learning, research, gastronomy, sports

Competition 2020

Gross Floor Area 31‘947 m2

Competition Organzier Kanton St. Gallen Hochbauamt

Team GG Mike Guyer, Stefan Thommen (Team Manager), Damien Andenmatten, Ivana Beljan, Dario Caccialupi, Matthias Clivio

Site Management Ghisleni Partner, Rapperswil

Landscape Architecture Lorenz Eugster Landschaftsarchitektur und Städtebau, Zurich

Structural Engineer WaltGalmarini, Zurich

Building Services Engineer Balzer Ingenieur, Winterthur

Renovation Textile Museum St.Gallen

Location St.Gallen, Switzerland

Programme Additional exhibition space, archive, improvement of museum tour and operation, staging of the reconstruction

Competition 2020

Competition Organzier Stiftung Textilmuseum St. Gallen

Team GG Mike Guyer, Pieter Rabijns, Jan Zimmermann (I)

Residential Building Hegibach

Location Zurich, Switzerland

Programme Ground floor: shop/bistro/office, Upper floors: residential

Competition Revision 2021

Client Hegibach AG
Clients representative: Thomas Pfister

Gross Floor Area 2‘119 m2

Team GG Mike Guyer, Stefan Thommen

Cost Planning/Scheduling Ghisleni Partner AG, Zurich

Structural Engineer WaltGalmarini AG, Zurich

Building Physics Engineer WaltGalmarini AG, Zurich
Revision: Bauphysik Meier AG, Dällikon

Other Energie: WaltGalmarini AG, Zurich

Visualization Nightnurse Images AG, Zurich

Office-/Residential Building Hegibach

Location Zurich, Switzerland

Programme Office/service, residential

Competition 2020, shortlisted

Client Hegibach AG
Clients representative: Thomas Pfister

Gross Floor Area 2‘119 m2

Team GG Mike Guyer, Stefan Thommen

Cost Planning/Scheduling Ghisleni Partner AG, Zurich

Structural Engineer WaltGalmarini AG, Zurich

Building Physics Engineer WaltGalmarini AG, Zurich

Other Energie: WaltGalmarini AG, Zurich

Visualization Nightnurse Images AG, Zurich

Living/Working Balgrist

Location Zurich, Switzerland

Programme Residential, Office/Service, Retail

Feasibility Study 2020

Client Einfache Gesellschaft «GP Balgrist»

Gross Floor Area 18‘706 m2

Team GG Mike Guyer, Stefan Thommen, Vladimir Dianiska, Timon Brändle

Site Management Ghisleni Partner AG, Rapperswil/Zurich

Landscape Architecture Schmid Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Zurich

Depot and Studio for an Artist

A two-storey building for the works of the artist Pierre André Ferrand.
Depot and storage space on the ground floor; archive, workshop and exhibition space on the upper floor.

Location Lully, Switzerland

Programme Studio, depot, archive, storage hall

Feasibility Study 2016 (not realized)

Client Pierre André Ferrand

Gross Floor Area 150 m2

Team GG Annette Gigon, Damien Andenmatten