Evolucio / Onionlab
Projected onto the façade of the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève, Onionlab‘s ‘Evolucio’ is a piece that revolves around the graphic and sound abstraction of the concept it is named after: evolution. Created with 3D projection mapping techniques, It is construed as transformation, construction and alteration of reality through time; evolution as a discontinuous creation process as well. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Two in One House / Clavienrossier Architectes
Architects: Clavienrossier Architectes
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Year: 2012
Photographs: Roger Frei
Château of Chillon Restaurant & Boutique Competition Entry / Mauro Turin Architectes
The proposal for the Château of Chillon Restaurant & Boutique by Mauro Turin Architectes takes into account the cultural significance of the historical national monument and uses century-old construction along with various updated methodologies. Their aspiration is to add, in a notion of continuity, a new layer of history about the site and the Castle. Therefore, the building is designed in the image of its ambitions, in the expectation in what can be called the expansion of the Castle. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Motorway Control Centre / meier + associés architectes
Architects: meier + associés architectes
Location: Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland
Collaborators: Joana Pimenta, Amalia Jimenez, Victor Ferreira, Ludovic Durand, Cathie Martinie, Nicolas Pailler, Michael Schaub, Linda Serra, Jean-Philippe Tournigand-Demilly
Area: 3,115 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Y André
Hotel Park and Seeallee Heiden Competition Entry / Kubota & Bachmann Architects + Martinez
Located in a strategic point in Heiden, where different urban conditions come together, the Hotel Park and Seeallee Heiden proposal is shaped by the surrounding landscape. The landscape continuity crossing the plot area, the particular building density, and its relevant position from the main entrance to the city are all used to achieve a perfect urban integration. Designed by Kubota & Bachmann Architects + Martinez, this strategy enhances the environmental qualities, while staying within the strict respect of urban regulations. More images and architects’ description after the break.
‘Superpose’ School Extension Competition Entry / OVERCODE
With the intention of restructuring the school complex in the city of Sion, the starting point for OVERCODE was to conceive a compact building deploying a strategy of economy of means and space. Consisting of a school extension, new nursery and new gymnasium, their urban strategy spins around the idea of closing and opening the site at the same time. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Housing Neufrankengasse / EM2N
Architects: EM2N
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Project Leader: Gerry Schwyter, David Duca, Raul Mera
Project Team: Fabian Hörmann, Florian Kaiser, Martin Schriener, Elena Schwarz, Caroline Vogel
Partners: Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli
Area: 5,800 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Simon Menges
Olympic Campus: A New Headquarters for the IOC Competition
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched an open and international architecture competition for their new headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. With the volume of the planned building at roughly 70,000m3, with a ground surface area of 18,000m2, the development will include headquarters for 450 staff members, “Olympic campus” housing administrative buildings, and possible accommodation and services. This will allow the IOC to benefit from two Olympic sites in Lausanne: one in Ouchy around The Olympic Museum, to host the general public; and the other in Vidy for the whole administrative staff and to host its institutional partners. The deadline for submissions is May 15. For more information, please visit here.
Herzog & de Meuron Breaks Ground on Public “Bathing Lake” in Riehen
In 1979, just a year after founding their practice, Herzog & de Meuron won a competition to design a public swimming pool for the Swiss municipality of Riehen. After developing several unrealized iterations over the following years, the project was put on hold indefinitely in 1982. Twenty-five years later, in 2007, Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned to rethink the project and proposed to abandon the conventional pool concept with its mechanical and chemical water treatment systems in favor of a pool closer to natural condition with biological filtration.
Apartment Building in Chailly / Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects
Architects: Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects
Civil Engineer: SD ingénierie Lausanne SA
Environmental Engineer: Planair SA
Area: 600 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
SUPSI Campus Project / Kengo Kuma and Associates
Kengo Kuma has paired up with Studio d`Architettura Martino Pedrozzi to develop a two-phase addition to La Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI), an institute of higher-education in applied science located in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. The proposal intends to overcome an existing urban barrier of an expansive railway system to link the university to the city of Mendrisio, utilizing a “skywalk” as well as a large underpass. Because accessibility and movement are at the core of the building’s design, the new addition is a fusion of infrastructure as well as artificial landscape.
More on the SUPSI after the break.
Cinema Hall of Locarno Film Festival Proposal / Mauro Turin Architectes
The design of the future Cinema Hall of Locarno Film Festival by Mauro Turin Architectes was inspired by a strong urban vision. The main goal of the project therefore resulted in the will to create a building that is at the same time unique and harmonious, which refuses to be a stand-alone project by participating actively to the landscape of the city of Locarno. More images and architects’ description after the break.
R House / Frei + Saarinen
Architects: Frei + Saarinen
Location: Kilchberg, Zurich, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Barbara Frei, Martin Saarinen, Stefan Wülser
Year: 2012
Photographs: Stefan Wülser, Zürich
Hangar Agricole / LOCALARCHITECTURE
Architects: LOCALARCHITECTURE
Location: Lignières, Switzerland
Project Architects: Manuel Bieler, Antoine Robert-Grandpierre, Laurent Saurer
Year: 2012
Photographs: Matthieu Gafsou
In Progress: Allianz Headquarters / Wiel Arets Architects
Architects: Wiel Arets Architects
Location: Wallisellen, Switzerland
Design Team: Wiel Arets, Felix Thies, Maik Ilmer
Area: 72,000 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jan Bitter
Confignon House / LOCALARCHITECTURE
Architects: LOCALARCHITECTURE
Location: Chemin de Cressy 63, Confignon, Switzerland
Partners In Charge: ntoine Robert-Grandpierre, Manuel Bieler, Laurent Saurer
Area: 185.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Mathieu Gafsou
House in Reckingen / Roman Hutter Architektur
Architects: Roman Hutter Architektur
Location: Reckingen, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Roman Hutter, Carola Wies
Collaborator Architect: Harry Heyck
Area: 135.8 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Markus Käch
120 affordable appartments / meier + associés architectes + Burckhardt Partner
Architects: meier + associés architectes , Burckhardt Partner
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Area: 11000 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Jean-Michel Landecy
‘Stairway to Heaven’ Second Prize Winning Proposal / PYO Arquitectos + Nomos Groupement d’Architectes + Pascal Heyraud Architecte Paysagiste
Inspired by the adjacent canal’s pragmatic linearity and the industrial buildings located on the left bank, the second prize winning proposal, titled ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for the new high school appears as a linear volume located in the extension of the Veveyse promenade’s perspective. Designed by PYO Arquitectos + Nomos Groupement d’Architectes + Pascal Heyraud Architecte Paysagiste, the basic organization of the building is staged with a central staircase of generous proportions linking a sequence of public spaces that interrupt diagonally the classrooms structural grid.More images and architects’ description after the break.
Studio in an Agricultural Building / Charles Pictet Architecte
Architects: Charles Pictet Architecte
Location: 1257 Landecy, Genève, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA
Collaborator: Franklin Regad, architecte EPFL
Year: 2010
Photographs: Thomas Jantscher, Courtesy of Charles Pictet Architecte
Messe Basel New Hall / Herzog & de Meuron
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Stefan Marbach (Partner in Charge), Wolfgang Hardt
Client: MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd.
Area: 83,297 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Messe Basel
