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Sports Center in Neudorf / Atelier Zündel Cristea

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The Neudorf area of Strasbourg is undergoing a major programme of redevelopment to fill the void that currently separates the city centre from its southern neighbourhoods. This urban project particularly exploits the site’s central location and the pleasant canal-side landscape, proposing densification as an alternative response to the sprawl of housing and facilities on the edges of the city.

Elderly Residential Home / Atelier Zündel Cristea

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 19 May 2015 02:00:13 +0000

AZC’s project for Notre-Dame de Bon Secours had to manage two major issues. Firstly, it involved rebuilding within the urban fabric of the city by reshaping an occupied site in order to give it greater clarity and adapting it to today’s urban requirements. Secondly, the consideration of how to integrate vulnerable or aging populations into the city, and how this should be addressed architecturally. The two being closely linked, the residents’ successful integration into the modern city depended entirely on the careful approach to the architecture and urbanism of the project. It is important that old age, illness or disability are not looked upon as ‘problems’ to be managed, but as aspects of life, which architecture must treat with dignity. The project pays careful attention to the way it fits into the site, to internal layout and proportions, to the choice of finishes and to atmosphere. The environment provided is generous without being superfluous, enhancing the lives of its inhabitants by providing appropriately designed, modern living spaces, without emphasizing the function of the building.

Peace Pavilion / Atelier Zündel Cristea

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Enhancing the experience of the city does not always require projects of significant cost and time, but can often come about as the result of modest, temporary interventions and events, in key places, at chosen times. Our office is dedicated to the conception of interventions likely to appeal to city residents, transforming the way in which they view the places around them and the practices possible in their cities.

Medical Cared Center for Disabled Persons / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Kritiana Ross — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Our project engages in an equilibrium (and disequilibrium) between the full and the empty, in other words between interior and exterior spaces, approaching both as materials. Contrary to programmed spaces, which are associated with specific functions, spacing pervaded by nature acquires a relaxing breath and a little freedom in defining its possible spaces.

Private Clinic in Champigny / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Kritiana Ross — Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Zac Claude Bernard Multifunctional Building / Atelier Zündel Cristea

Kritiana Ross — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Residence for the Disabled / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Andrew Rosenberg — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:00:00 +0000

The overall form of the building is the result of both a pragmatic approach and a determination to express the future structure’s volume in terms of “a material that fills the negative” of the site in which it rests.

Mother and Baby Care Center / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Andrew Rosenberg — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

EPSAN, a psychiatric establishment located near the entrance to the community of Brumath (to the north of Strasbourg), is organized, behind an enclosure wall, like a little city made up of a number of pavilion buildings, connected by an orthogonal network of roads. The project included the completion, within the UMB, of a Day Hospital, a Full Time department, communal areas and consultation offices, with each of these sections requiring their own entrance. In the image of the establishment’s existing pavilions, in the south of the grounds, the UMB was completed in the shape of an open “U”, enclosing a garden.

Fonderie / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Andrew Rosenberg — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The project, which included medical offices and consultation rooms, called for the creation of two separate divisions, each to be established on its own floor. Sixteen parking spaces were requested in the basement, along with a boiler, and space for technical and archival premises.

Retirement Home / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Andrew Rosenberg — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This retirement home is located on the heights of Riedisheim (a suburb of Mulhouse), in a residential neighborhood. The conjunction of geophysical and regulatory constraints rendered this plot of land difficult to build upon : its elongated form, its gradient exceeding 10%, and the very restrictive POS regulations applicable to it were a priori incompatible with the size and demands of the project.

University Offices of Haute Alsace / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Andrew Rosenberg — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The need to build on a single floor, adjoining the existing structure, without altering the form of the plot of land through significant and costly earthmoving works, led us to design a building in the shape of a ribbon that breaks away in part from the natural terrain, before turning back in a loop against the slope of the land.