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Architects: Boltshauser Architekten
- Area: 60 m²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Kuster Frey
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Manufacturers: Jakob, Ineichen, KIBAG, Keller Unternehmungen, LEHMAG AG, Nüssli, Terrabloc, Ziegelei Schumacher
Text description provided by the architects. The brickworks, that is run today by the Brickworks Museum, is the only intact surviving handmade brickworks in German-speaking Switzerland. The listed ensemble consists of a timber brick-drying shed, a kiln, that may no longer be operated, the biotope of the historical clay pit, a residential building with gardens, and a museum building that replaces a burned-down barn. In 2017 students of the guest professorship at the TU Munich worked on the task of designing a new kiln tower on the site. The prestressed earth-and-timber structure is based directly on the mock-up carried out at the Sitterwerk and is the world's first prestressed earth building.
