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Am Chatzebach Housing Development / Baumberger & Stegmeier + Stücheli Pestalozzi Schiratzki Architekten

Paula Pintos — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The local monastery in Muri is the community’s definitive characteristic, from where the roads, paths and building structures radiate into the landscape. Like the existing 19^th-century houses and the auxiliary buildings around the monastery, the houses along Williweg are conceived as “houses with gardens”. Their mutual proximity creates the impression of an overall body along the street that recalls the volumetrics of the elongated monastery and strengthens the orientation of the street leading to the monastery.

Extension of the Stadtcasino Basel / Herzog & de Meuron

Paula Pintos — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The Rise of the Cultural Mile in the 19th Century and its Urban Demise in the 20th Century. In the course of the 19th century, the town fortifications and the adjoining buildings of the former Barfüsser and St. Magdalen Convents were demolished, making room for what we would nowadays call a Cultural Mile along the southern fringe of Basel’s Old Town. These developments reflect the urban and architectural vision of those times.

School in Port / Skop

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 01:00:00 +0000

The school is located in a residential neighbourhood in the Swiss village of Port. With its characteristic folded roof structure, the school references the pitched roofs of the surrounding houses, the rural history of the region and the smooth hills of the Jura Mountains. Placed on a gentle slope, the building takes advantage of the topography and links various outdoor spaces according to the different access routes of the school children. While the ground floor is used for faculty administration, workshops, a school kitchen and back of the house rooms, the first floor comprises of nine class rooms and three kindergarten units. The upper rooms naturally benefit from the spatial qualities of the folded roof. Each classroom appears to be an independent little house, creating a cozy and homelike atmosphere for the children.

Arthron / Manuel Herz Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:00:00 +0000

The Cologne area of Bayenthal is a neighborhood in search for an identity.When established in the middle of the 19th century, it was an industrial area that was dominated by the Kölnische Maschinenbau Aktienge- sellschaft, (Cologne Mechanical Construction Company.) This company was in fact the pride of German engineering and steel technology at its time, building amongst others several Rhine bridges, the roof construction of the Cologne Cathedral for its completion, and the roof of Cologne’s first main railway station.With its leading manufacturing and prestigious projects the company, and hence the neighborhood of Bayenthal was one of the high-tech hubs of its time in Germany.

House M / Jan Skuratowski Architecture

Sabrina Leiva — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:00:00 +0000

The new single-family house was designed as a separate residential unit and can hold its own next to the existing building from the 80s. It is situated on a partly raised plateau in the south-eastern part of the property. The two buildings differ in their roof design and thus emphasize their autonomy. At the same time, the new building paraphrases the existing building’s design: by its polygonal ground plan, which follows the hill’s shape, and expressive cantilevered floors. Wood was used a material to contrast the rather heavy sand-lime brick of the existing structure. Hierarchically, the new building is supposed to subordinate to the existing building and is therefore set slightly to the rear of the site. The new structure appears like a pavilion and, thanks to the flat roof, has a large accessible roof terrace that expands the small plot effectively. The greening of the roofs is intended to give the new building an animated character and link it with nature and the hill.

Court House Bärgiswil / AFGH

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:00:00 +0000

After a long search the clients have found this homestead - ensemble, dating back to the end of the 19th century, composed of a residence, a shed and a barn. The 15‘000m2 property is located in a agricultural zone close to the Lake of Lucerne. The aspiration was to create a superior and attractive courtyard scenery in terms of landscape design and architecture and revaluate the surrounding cultivated landscape.

Visitor Centre at the Swiss Ornithological Institute / :mlzd

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:00:00 +0000

The new Visitor Centre at the Swiss Ornithological Ins- titute has been built on the banks of Sempachersee. Its function is to provide the public with more information about the work of the Ornithological Institute and about bird life in Switzerland.