Research Trip Guidebook 2017 .. Porto . Hamburg . Zurich
Research Trip Guidebook 2017 .. Porto . Hamburg . Zurich
Research Trip Guidebook 2017 .. Porto . Hamburg . Zurich
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Alvaro Siza
Bouca Casas Socials
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Boa Nova Tea house
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Leca Swimming Pool
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Serralves Museum
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Sarah Hare, Roger Watts, Danny Lane, Jodie Wilson, Alex Johnstone, Kishan San, Joanna Sutherland, Imogen Long, George Allen, Larry Botchway, Lucas Facer, Tomoyo Arimoto, Ben Rea, Becky Liebermann, Adrian Lau, James Walker, Romy Romagnoli
BOUCA CASAS SOCIALS 1973 - 1977, 2001 - 2006
LOCATION Rua de Boavista - on the south edge of Porto’s major East-West thoroughfare which connects the city with the harbour. TYPOLOGY - MAISONETTE The housing scheme is made up of 2 stacked maisonettes, with gallery access. Maisonette’s range from 74m2 - 80m2. Access to the upper gallery is through a communal stair at the South end of each block. Access to the stacked maisonette is by a dramatic narrow & steep stair in front of each dwelling in the central courtyard. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project is defined by an exaggerated double wall that runs along the tracks at the north edge of the site to protect the apartments from the sound of the trains which run along an elevated railway embankment and also to order the site. Four parallel but discontinuous rows of four story row houses are attached perpendicular to this wall forming four courtyards. The southern end of each row is designed to contain community facilities such as laundry, library & meeting spaces. The design is as traditional as it is abstract in its references to the Modernist European housing of the 1920’s and also to the local building traditions of Bouca. Early modernist architectural vocabulary includes: - White plaster walls - Elementary geometry - Lack of decoration - Simple openings Traditional elements can be found in the composition of linear rows of houses and communal courtyard spaces, which reference to ilhas (typical working class houses of Porto’s industrial period at the end of the 19th century).
ADDITIONAL FEATURES - Shortly after the Portuguese April 25th Revolution of 1974, Siza joined an organisation called SAAL who sought to alleviate poor housing conditions in Portugal. After the right wing coup of 1975, SAAL’s power was reduced and the Bouca social housing project was halted in 1977. - Due to severe housing shortage in Portugal, the project was revised and rebuilt in 2001, with only a few minor changes to Siza’s original design. - The three courtyards have three separate characters / functions: Courtyard 1. A modern passage with straight façades and red coloured walls, giving the feeling of a sculpture garden. Courtyard 2. A stage, with the galleries of the row houses facing into this space, the elevated part of the courtyard feels stage like. Courtyard 3. The character of the original design, a small community area.
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Elevation not to scale
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BOA NOVA TEA HOUSE 1963
LOCATION Leça da Palmeira, Portgual TYPOLOGY Tea house and resturant
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Designed by a young Siza with his fellow students, the tea house perches on the rocks right by the sea, only a few hundred metres from the Leca pools which were to follow two years later. A genuinely remarkable building due to the enviable specificity of both the spatial progression and the grounding within its context. A meandering yet controlled walk to the entrance of the restaurant takes the visitor through a series of turns, hiding and then revealing the ocean along the way. Framed views of the ocean and the rocks from the entrance are followed by a walk down a stair to the main tea house and restaurant, stepping over the concealed ancillary space of the kitchen to the rear of the building. Beautiful wooden joinery, furniture, lamps and sea views create characterful rooms with sloping ceilings.
MATERIALS Concrete, render, terracotta, wood
ADDITIONAL FEATURES An amazingly controlled and specific piece of architecture, so the greatest surprise was the showstopping electric windows which fall away into the floor. Whilst a complete contradiction to the subtlety of the rest of the building, they are genuinely terrific and allow the visitor to step out onto the rocks and look at the sea.
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Ground floor plan not to scale
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LECA SWIMMING POOL 1966
LOCATION Leça de Palmeira, Portugal
TYPOLOGY Public Lido
PROJECT DESCRIPTION One of Siza’s earliest works, the Leca Swimming Pools are set within the existing rock formations of the coastline, North of Porto. They are a beautiful example of architecture defined by its landscape with minimal intervention. Arrival into the pools begins from the promenade above and then drops down behind the rocks into a concrete and black stained pavilion. This contains almost pitch black changing room and showers which then lead onto a walkway concealing views of the pools and ocean below. At the end of the walkway the ocean is revealed with the pools nestled below between the rocks. The pools themselves are defined by simple concrete walls poured between rock formations to create pools that are topped up with sea water.
MATERIALS Concrete, timber and natural stone.
Plan not to scale
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SERRALVES MUSEUM 1999 LOCATION Located in the Serralves Park, the Museum is in direct dialogue with the Serralves Villa, with it’s Art Deco architecture and the surrounding gardens. TYPOLOGY Museum of Contemporary Art
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The architectural plans for the Serralves Museum were first drawn up in 1991 by the architect Alvaro Siza. The new building was finally inaugurated in 1999, harmoniously integrated within the surrounding urban area and the pre-existing spaces of the gardens of the Park and Villa. The site was chosen so as to create the least possible impact on the surroundings. The building is erected in a longitudinal manner from North to South, with a central body divided into two wings, separated by a patio to create a U-shaped structure. An L-shaped construction creates a second patio that connects with the main building and serves as the main access to the Museum. The Museum has 14 exhibition galleries distributed over three floors. The upper floor is the location of the restaurant, Education studio, and Multipurpose room. A terrace leading from the restaurant provides expansive views of the Serralves Park. The entrance floor provides access to the exhibition galleries and bookshop. The fluid disposition of the spaces of the Museum offers the visitor multiple itineraries and points of view suited to the changing programme of exhibitions and related activities. The architecture is characterised by the succession of long perspectives through the building and to the exterior in the form of visual ‘escape routes’ to the gardens. In the interior natural and artificial lighting are combined.
MATERIALS The structure of the building is in concrete and steel, with an exterior covering of granite and painted plaster. Locally sourced materials are used for the building’s roof covering. Inside the building, the floor is in oak and marble, walls and ceilings are constructed of painted and gypsum plaster.
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PORTO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 1985-1996
LOCATION Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso, Porto, Portugal TYPOLOGY Education
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Faculty of Architecture within Porto has been long established and produced the two most famous Portuguese Modernist architects, Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura. However, growing numbers of students within the fine arts made teaching architecture untenable and Siza was commissioned to design an independent facility. When compared to the materially rich and site specific qualities of the early Leca projects, there is a hard to place sterility about the feel of these larger scale buildings. The separate blocks for different stages of the school also feels a bit segregated and strange. However, there is still a lot to like, from the full height opening windows on the ground floor, opening the ground floor through level access to the garden beyond, and the carefully deigned yet simple catches on the windows of the floor above.
MATERIALS Rendered walls, glazing, metalwork
ADDITIONAL FEATURES Bespoke elements, such as the window catches, seem common in the projects we visited in Porto, certainly more so than we see in the UK. There is also an element of continuity with metalwork across Siza projects: the studio window catch detail is used at the Santa Maria Church, scaled to many times its original size.
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SANTA MARIA CHURCH 1996
LOCATION Av. Gago Coutinho 4630-206 Marco de Canaveses TYPOLOGY Tripartite religious complex for a rural parish arranged around an elevated piazza. It includes a church with a mortuary chapel, a parochial centre with an auditorium and Sunday school, and a site for the priest’s house that remains unbuilt.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The church consists of a 400 seat worship space on an upper geometric volume accessed from the Piazza, with the mortuary chapel beneath set within a granite plinth that is accessed through a cloister and garden on the lower end of the site. The 10m high main entrance doors are opened for select ceremonies, through which afternoon light penetrates deeply into the nave. The Baptistery occupies one of the projecting volumes by the main entrance, with the everyday entrance and stairway to the organ and bells located in the other. The design of the nave refers to precedents in church architecture in order to evoke the sense of church without the use of explicit religious imagery and symbols. It is illuminated by three elements: large high level openings set within its curved wall on the Northwest, a continuous horizontal opening along the southwest wall, and a north lit light shaft behind the altar that also serve the mortuary chapel below. A subsidiary rectangular form on the Northwest of the nave contains the extension to the alter, the sacristy, registry and confessional rooms.
MATERIALS External walls - Reinforced concrete wall structure with brick cavity walls finished in white rendered, clad in Granite at low level. Roof - Zinc External Paving - Granite Internal floor - Oak, marble Other - Handmade tiles to select areas, some with crosses to mark the site of each sacrament. Marble incorporated in features such as the altar, presidential chair and the baptismal font. Main entrance door finished in steel and clad in Oak internally. Timber Cross in gold leaf. Tabernacle in cherry wood with silver plate
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Ground Floor Plan not to scale
Thoughts on the Works of Alvaro Siza By Vittorio Gregotti I have always had the impression that Alvaro Siza’s architecture
Alvaro Siza Vieira is clearly considered one of today’s greatest
sprang from archaeological foundations known to him alone—
living architects. He is an architect still able to make authentic
signs invisible to anyone who has not studied the site in detail
affirmations with his architecture, still able to surprise a culture
through drawings with steady, focused concentration.
as base as ours by coming on stage from unexpected quarters. The interest in his architecture shown by younger generations
Later on, those signs come together because they convey a feeling of growing out of something necessary, of relating,
in particular results from the complex mixture of meanings that
connecting, establishing and constructing, all the while
emanates from his work. His architecture is formed in quiet and
maintaining the tender uncertainty of hypothesis and discovery.
seclusion; then there is the slight but ever precise touch of his works, which seem to emerge as clean, precious points among
The construction is slow and intense. It is made of the discrete,
the contemporary urban blight, yet at the same time making
if not downright secret, signs of an attempt to start anew,
one painfully responsible for those problems. In addition to this
based on establishing some creative and apparently simple and
mixture and the tradition of poverty and the gentle melancholy
explicit signs of a universal design system.
of Portugal, his native country, there is the affection that his architecture seems to bring to the conditions of the urban
Siza’s work is characterized by just that sense of architecture as
periphery. On the other hand, the micro surgical confidence
a means of listening to the real, in that it hides at least as much
of his work, the emergence of the extreme eternity of the
as it shows. Siza’s architecture makes one see, and it reveals
elementary acts of building, the sense of natural modification of
rather than interprets the truth of the context.
that which exists, a suspended modification does not erase the errors of the existing nor the uncertain course of the project,
It seems then, that he has very carefully removed parts from the
but solidifies it into a single poetic objective.
design, which is very clearly and harmoniously drawn, in order to create expectations. All non-essentials have been removed,
Over the years, all of that has made him become more secure in
but even that, in turn, has left its traces, like when pencil strokes
the methods and processes of his craft without eliminating his
are erased and redrawn in a drawing. Sharp corners and sinewy
sense of trepidation, of attempting to have his designs express
curves are interwoven for an apparently mysterious reason,
the margins of an architectural problem, when he checks with
something that has to do with the very history of the design.
his hands and eyes.
Its thoughts, misfortunes and changes are not totally forgotten, but are transformed in the construction of a mental site, of a
The quality of the tensions which he draws up and details is
context just as real as the surrounding physical one.
touching (to use a word out of fashion like him) and derives
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principally, in my opinion, from two themes: attention and
illuminates poverty in an abstract way, reveals all the harshness
uneasiness; the clear certainty which is that the essential is
of surfaces, each change in the road around homes, every
always a little different from the directions chosen, and from
scrap, in a grandiose, dry and bittersweet manner.
possible explanations. I believe that Alvaro Siza could be justifiably considered the For Siza, even detail is not an incident or a technological
father of the new architectural minimalism, but a minimalism
exhibition, but a dimension of the accessibility of architecture,
far from any abstraction or perceptive radicalism, in which
a way of verifying by touch the feel, the uniqueness of a thing
the architectural sign is incision and superimposition. A timid,
made for a particular place with contemporary techniques, to
unequivocal, circumscribed assurance seems to characterize
come into contact with the everyday things by handling them.
the forms of his new minimalism. It is careful concentration,
His is a technology of detail created from unexpected distances
the capacity for detailed observation and characterization.
between the parts which introduce a spatial tension between
If it appears that the use of elementary structures is most
the smallest and most commonplace elements, for their mutual
indirect, it is rather a hidden, precise plot from which emerge
placement, superimposition and interconnectedness.
by cancellation some signs suspended between the memory of the plot’s established order, and a new, stringent logic of
To speak about Siza’s architecture, however, one must start by
external and internal relations which the system renders clearer
admitting that it is indescribable. This is not critical or textual
and more evident, even in their wavering.
indescribably alone (in fact the latter would certainly be one of the best means for the purpose, perhaps in story-form), but the same inability of photography to communicate the specific sense of his work. This is also because his design includes a unique temporal dimension, resulting not only from the processes required for coming into contact with his structures, but also from his ability to establish a type of autonomous memory of the design, completely present in the final structure, built by the accumulation and purification of successive discoveries which are constituted as data of later structures. Nothing is planned in and of itself, but always in relation to belonging. Above all, for Alvaro Siza, coming from northern Portugal—stony, clear, poor and full of intimacy, where the light of the Atlantic is long and
The first time I visited Portugal, I had met Alvaro Siza the year before in Barcelona, a little more than twenty-five years ago. Then, the next summer we spent a couple of days together in Oporto and went to see his works, many still in progress: Banco do Oporto in Oliveira and the Vila do Conde, his brother’s house, the pool at the ocean and the Quinta da Conceiçao in Matosinhos, already completed in 1965. I remember being particularly struck by the small homes in Caxinas, a village thirty kilometers north of Oporto and home to a few hundred fishermen. For the past several years prior to that, these fishermen were renting part of their own homes
to people who came to the ocean for the summer from the
past. Only five days had gone by after April 28, 1974 (the date of
country’s interior. Then, that modest gesture toward tourism
the revolution of the carnations), when, without encountering
created the spontaneous appearance of some one-or two-story
guards or bailiffs, I entered the office of the new Minister of Public
homes, often illegal. The town asked Siza to formulate a plan to
Works, my friend Nuno Portas. Seated in a pompous armchair
regulate development. He began with a study of the features
in that grand office was Alvaro Siza. He started explaining to me
of the old and new existing facilities. It is essentially a work of
the work plan of the SAAL brigades, spontaneous cooperatives
the imagination, attempting to create a morphological vision
of planning and building. The new political opportunity seemed
from the few signs that poverty has left in the form of buildings:
to have transformed his usual patience into great energy. Then,
colours, materials, types, dimensions and rhythms.
after great hopes came disappointments.
Then, on that basis, he set up a linear-development plan of
In the
two story homes: a small set facing the sea. These homes
great architects of international fame. The first great
were planned and built amid many difficulties arising from
acknowledgements came: the invitations to the IBA in Berlin,
the designs. One of them calls for a small square to the north,
his win at the Venice competition (later disillusioned, which
linking the internal street with the sea; another incorporates a
is common in Italy), his work in Holland, in Portugal at Evora
cafe already existing on the ground floor; the rest was regulated
and Lisbon, and in Spain at Barcelona and Malaga, where we
through a series of building codes that he thought would be
worked together. Finally came the award from the European
followed almost spontaneously.
Community in 1986 and then the Pritzker in 1992. We met many
meantime, however, Siza became one of the
times in various places, busily and excitedly discussing trends in The extreme poverty of the project is put to good use with
architecture. Yet he never gave up his discomfort and pride of
pride, taking advantage of any sign available, stretched between
being from northern Portugal, born on the edge of Europe.
surfaces of coloured plaster of the utmost simplicity, in a strong Atlantic light, with elementary gestures: putting up a wall, placing a window, opening an empty space in volume, coloring doors, beginning, ending. In an atmosphere that is hardly primitive or folkloric, the resort village at the tip of Europe on the Atlantic seems to make references to many modern European cultures. The second time we met, resignation seemed a thing of the
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CASA DA MUSICA 2005
LOCATION Av. da Boavista, Porto, Portugal TYPOLOGY Opera House
PROJECT DESCRIPTION A new opera house, with massing based around the theme of a meteor which has landed in the city, with surrounding rippled landscaping from the force of the impact. In both section and plan, the building is entirely at odds with what one might expect: an orthogonal auditorium within a complex geometry instead of a complex acoustic shape forced into an square urban block.
MATERIALS Wide ranging material palette consisting largely of concrete, glass, wood, metal glazed tiles ADDITIONAL FEATURES A smorgasbord of architectural ideas, and in many ways a remarkable project, the building nonetheless feels fairly uncomfortable to be in. Perhaps surprisingly, given its unusual form, the opera house feels successful on an urban scale, the ‘shock wave’ ripples of the meteor’s impact generating interest from young children with bikes and teenagers with skateboards.
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ORDEM DOS ARQUITECTOS 2016
LOCATION Rua Alvares Cabral, Porto
TYPOLOGY The Headquarters of the Portuguese Architectural Association are a series of joined buildings with mixed use, comprising largely of flexible spaces for co-working, education and meeting alongside administrative functions. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Fourteen years after the acquisition of two houses on Rua Alvares Cabral in Porto, a new headquarters for the Northern Regional Section of the Order of Architects was completed. The buildings along the street front present themselves as twin bourgeois houses from the late nineteenth century. However, a contemporary blue gate with the acronym OASRN across the front provides an entrance to the extension behind and the start of a transition to the extension behind. A passageway takes the visitor from the stained glass and glazed tiles of the renovated buildings to the recently added extension. These monolithic grey wings adjoin the existing buildings, receiving the public and offer access to the interior.
MATERIALS Renovation of existing: detailed stucco ceilings, hydraulic mosaic floors, green glazed tile roofs for the projecting windows. New build: Stone (even the roof), glass timber, metal fixings
ADDITIONAL FEATURES An interesting exploration of spatial progression through external spaces and the relationship between old and new.
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LIVRARIA BOOK SHOP 1864-1944
LOCATION Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto. TYPOLOGY Gothic Revival book shop
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Along with Bertrand in Lisbon, the Lello Bookshop is one of the oldest bookshop in Portugal.
MATERIALS Granite, Wood, Stonework, Painted Plaster
ADDITIONAL FEATURES The ample interior space is marked by a forked staircase connecting to a gallery on the first floor with detailed wood balusters. Over this staircase is a large 8 by 3.5 metres (26 ft × 11 ft) stained glass window, with the central motto Decus in Labore and monogram of the owners. The ceiling and interiors are treated exhaustively with painted plaster, designed to resemble sculpted wood surfaces and decorative elements.
FRANCISCO XAVIER ESTEVES
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OH!PORTO CONCRETE APARTMENTS 2016
LOCATION Calçada da Serra, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal TYPOLOGY Aparthotel
PROJECT DESCRIPTION A renovation and vertical extension of an existing building, to create a series of apartments for short term rent. Over the river and beyond the edge of the city boundary, the apartments offer views over Porto and its colourful yellow rendered walls. The architects were students who had just finished studying and the architect who showed us around described the conception of the building as a labour of love. Often working long into the night, agonising over the details and producing lots of detail each of the building elements. The constrained site, abutted against the rocks creates a complex geometry and the quality of finishing around these areas in particular is impressive, especially to the small, angular, protruding balconies.
MATERIALS Concrete, metal
ADDITIONAL FEATURES The element of craft and bespoke details are telling of the time that the young architects were willing to invest. In some areas they might have learnt from the project. For example, the new metal windows and doors have a very fine tolerance around the existing stonework at ground floor level, not more than a couple of millimetres. Perhaps too fine, said our guide, as installation proved difficult.
MELO SOUSA + FERREIRA
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PASSOS MANUEL GARAGE 1939
LOCATION Rua de Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal TYPOLOGY Car park
PROJECT DESCRIPTION To paraphrase Douglas Adams, it is not a coincidence that the phrase ‘as pretty as a car park’ does not exist in the English language. There are a few that are nice enough, Allies and Morrison in Sheffield for example, but typically they are utilitarian buildings. In central Porto, however, tthere are a couple of Art Deco Car Parks in this area and the Pasos Manuel Garage has a facade to compete with the Art Moderne Colseu do Porto across the road. Still operational as a car park, a narrow stair takes you up floor by floor, offering views to the echoing parking levels. At the top level, however, the garage has been converted into a pizza place with a cocktail bar and art gallery. Trendy.
MATERIALS Concrete, render, stained glass, neon lights
ADDITIONAL FEATURES A curvy, loosely designed facade with a clock, stained glass window and a neon sign all integrated into the composition, the latter of which is an abstract representation of a map of Portugal.
MARIO DE ABREU
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COLISEU DO PORTO 1941
LOCATION R. de Passos Manuel 137, 4000-385 Porto,
TYPOLOGY Theatre
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Considered as Art Moderne (a later style of Art Deco to emerge in the 1930’s) the Coliseu do Porto is one of the city’s more revered Art Deco monuments. Design of the building began as early as 1911, however the theatre only officially opened in 1941. The project was largely undertaken by architects Cassiano Branco and Júlio Brito, although there were many complications in the design process which resulted in the involvement of several more architects over the course of construction who include Mário de Abreu, Charles Ciclis and Rogério Cavaco.
The main auditorium has a capacity for a standing audience of 3,500 people and 2,955 seated - including the 1st and 2nd stalls, the dress circle, the boxes, upper circle, reserved and general gallery. The smaller Ático Room has a capacity of 300 people, suitable for smaller performances, conferences and symposia. The Passos Manuel, Garage, another distinct example of Art Deco within Porto, sits directly opposite the Coliseu do Porto, they are recorded as having been built around the same time.
MATERIALS Masonry, Stucco
ADDITIONAL FEATURES The theatre was almost purchased once by a Brazilian Church, but the city and local residents intervened and today, the Coliseu do Porto is managed by a group of residents as a public cultural venue.
CASSIANO BRANCO AND JÚLIO BRITO
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GARCIA D’ORTA SECONDARY SCHOOL 2011
LOCATION Rua de Pinho Leal, Porto, Portugal TYPOLOGY Education
PROJECT DESCRIPTION A bright red canopy for a school courtyard, between two new buildings offering library, auditorium, study rooms and a cafe. The architects use colour in other projects and here the canopy is a bold addition to the school. A stepped plan integrates the three new buildings into the the existing school buildings, the central covered space intended to be the centre of life in the school. MATERIALS Concrete, paint, glass
ADDITIONAL FEATURES The rhythm of rooflights and covered roof between the concrete fins creates an interesting effect with the light and the structure running within the depth of the horzontal ‘walls’ of the canopy is successful it its structural trick of apparently offering no structural support.
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Ground floor plan not to scale
PORTO CEMETERY
LOCATION Rua de António Bessa Leite, Porto, Portugal TYPOLOGY Cemetery
PROJECT DESCRIPTION A central city cemetery, just minutes walk from the Casa da Musica, the graveyard is vast. Many times the size of the site of the opera house, or indeed the stadiums of the local football team or the university, the ordered block dwarfs the surrounding urban scale. A variety of scales from gravestones to mausoleums with alien lift and ladder mechanisms to access the vaults make the cemetery and unusual addition to the centre of the city. MATERIALS Stone, metal, cadavers ADDITIONAL FEATURES The language of the architecture is strangely residential, which seemingly highlights a cultural difference between the UK and Portugal. The central location and domesticity of the buildings present the unfamiliar idea of a graveyard as a place that one might visit and were one might feel at home.
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R e s e a r c h Tr i p 2 017 Hamburg
Hamburg Team Minsun Kang, Mariana Rodrigues, Frederica Russo, Rowena Bond, Patrick Haymann, Patrick Quinn, David Johnson, Chris Hartle, Ken Okonkwo, Laura Gaskell, Sho Das-Munshi, Daniel Díaz Monterrubio, Beatie Blakemore, Hugo Braddick, Imogen Long, Martin Lydon, Matt Sicolo, Tom Gibson, Chris Fellner
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Architect
Project
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Fritz Höger
Chilehaus
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Fritz Höger, Hans & Oskar Gerson
Sprinkenhof
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Bernhard Hermkes
The Hamburg Großmarkthalle
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David Chipperfield Architects
Empire Riverside Hotel
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Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT
Hafencity
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Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch
Ecumenical Forum HafenCity
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HHS Planer + Architekten
Energy Bunker
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Adjaye Associates
IBA Apartment Building
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LAN Architects
Neue Hamburger Terrassen
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Limbrock Tubbesing Architekten
Student Living
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Herzog & De Meuron
Elbphilharmonie
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Harry Charrington
Typology
Year
Office / Commercial
1924
Office / Commercial
1927-43
Cultural Building
1958-62
Hotel
2002-07
Public Space
2002 – ongoing
Mixed Use
2012
Visitor Centre & Cafe
2013
Housing
2013
Housing
2013
Student Accommodation
2015
Cultural & Residential
2017
Chilehaus
Fritz Hoger
1924 Project description
Typology
Chilehaus was built by the shipping magnate Henry B Sloman who commissioned the architect Fritz Höger to design the 10-storey building for Hamburg’s then new merchant district, an area of offices built to serve the city’s Speicherstadt warehouse district, and the first dedicated office zone in Europe. The Chilehaus sits in the Kontorhaus district, which, in conjunction with the Speicherstadt Warehouse district is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Kontorhaus is a cohesive, densely built area featuring eight large office complexes.
Office / Commercial
Location Fischertwiete 2, 20095 Hamburg
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Site Area: Approx 6000 sqm Total Building Area: 30,400 sqm Storeys: 10
Additional Features
Materials
Street & Courtyards Tiered balconies Semi-public entrance halls
Dark ‘clinker’ bricks Reinforced concrete frame Decorative brickwork
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Sprinkenhof
Fritz Höger &
1927-43
O. & H. Gerson
Project description
Typology
Location
Sprinkenhof is a nine-storey office building in the Hamburg Kontorhausviertel , which occupies the entire complex between Altstädter, Burchardstraße and Johanniswall. Courtyards are separated by Burchard and Altstädter Straße in two parallel streets. The office building was built between 1927 and 1943 in three phases by Hans and Oskar Gerson and Fritz Höger and is named after the urban real estate company Sprinkenhof GmbH.
Office / Commercial
Burchardstraße 8, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
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Site Area: Total Building Area: Storeys: 10
Additional Features Semi-public entrance halls Street & Courtyards Regular facade Urban block
Materials Decorative brickwork Reinforced concrete frame
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The Hamburg Großmarkthalle
Bernhard Hermkes
1958-62
F101 Architekten
Project description
Typology
Location
The building is a multipurpose venue situated inside a historic wholesale market for fruit, veg & flowers. The building was originally designed by architect Bernhard Hermkes and has a experimental pre-stressed concrete form with wave-form roof. When the market became underused, the City of Hamburg agreed to allow the construction of a temporary venue in 2012. The daily activity of the market has not stopped, with the venue and market functions making use of the building at different hours. The project involved close collaboration with Hamburg’s office for historic preservation and resulted in a demountable, free-standing steel structure holding 2,400 seated, 3,500 standing and seated which meant only minor alternations to the existing building.
Cultural Building
Banksstraße 28, 20097 Hamburg
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Plan
Additional Features
Materials
Marketplace 2,400 seated venue
Pre-stressed concrete Wave-form roof
Concrete
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Empire Riverside Hotel
Chipperfield
2002-2007
Architects
Project description
Typology
Location
The Empire Riverside Hotel and the ‘Brauhaus’ – an adjacent retail and office building – are located in the centre of Hamburg on the former Bavaria brewery site, previously the largest industrial workplace in the inner city. The project consists of three elements: a tower, a lower base and a public square (enclosed by
Commercial
Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 97, Hamburg
the ‘Brauhaus’ and the lower base of the hotel). The site can be regarded as an urban vacuum where new development needs to take up a mediating role between the different neighbouring urban situations. The 20-storey hotel complex consists of different staggered volumes, where the height of each volume corresponds with the eaves of the surrounding buildings.
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Area: 26.000 sqm Storeys:22 Number of units: 300 room Hotel Uses: Retail, Office, Conference Centre
Additional Features
Materials Bronze facade Pre-fabricated Cladding panels
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Hafencity Public Spaces
EMBT
1999-2000 Project description The western open spaces part of Hafencity have been central components in the processes of transformation of the former harbour zone. The spaces have been designed as places of relaxation with an approach to urban planning which encourages a fluid movement from the new housing blocks down to the water. The new artificial landscape is inhabited by natural elements: water and plants, which are found at every level of the public space.
Typology
Location
Public Space
Hafencity, Hamburg
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Area: 150,000 sqm
Terraces Square, park Plaza Landscape Lighting
Materials Concrete Brick Ceramic pavers Timber Steel
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Ecumenical Forum HafenCity
Wandel Hoefer
2012
Lorch + Hirsch
Project description
Typology
Location
The Forum combines two different building typologies: The town house with its perimeter block development incorporated in the urban context and the sacred building with sculptural facade.
Mixed Use
Shanghaiallee 12, 20457 Hamburg
The public facilities on the ground floor (chapel, cafe, information centre and function room) are linked with each other for flexible use. In the tradition of Hamburg architects such as Fritz Höger’s Chile House a contemporary expressive large scale shape has been achieved with the offset of red clinker bricks according to the concept of a “red” Hamburg. The embossed facade creates a changing play of shadows.
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Area: 4,600 sq. m Storeys: 7 Number of units: 20 Dual aspect: xx% Uses: Church, Cafe, Offices, Residential
Additional Features
Materials
Central core Roof terrace Concave facade
Brick Perforate brick Steel frame
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Energy Bunker
HHS Planer &bunker before Plans theMultiple Fig.of21: layers: Architekten Before the
2013 Project description
Typology
The 42-metre-high bunker on Neuhöfer Strasse was built during World War II. In 2006 the conceptual planning for converting the building into an Energy Bunker began, and 2010 saw the first static tests carried out, with safety, restoration, and conversion work beginning in 2011. The aim of the architects was to implement the new uses in and around the building with minimal impact on the original structure. The bunker now incorporates a visitor centre, cafe and viewing deck.
Visitor Centre & Cafe
mented, th be repaired Neuhöfer Straße 7, interior of 21107 Hamburg of concrete The aim of the architects w As the orig for v in and around the vided building longer acc original structure, for reason demolition into fra effectiveness. As far asthe pos building. T therefore left untouched (re ral repairs in or façades), repaired floors (outer w the constru were faced inner supporting pillars). Ex normally re in the staircase, openings, a ruction, as Location sign.
of the renovation. Overall, th
Unexplode
appearance as a »concrete A 15 × 7 m
theby wester now been enhanced the
breakthrou
surfaces, and interrupted in tion vehicl
ramp raise tion vehicl and remov showcases the district, and carefully fr individual design cou A Café with a View: <vju> the high co One of the bunker’s flak tow eroded fur might and its remarkableand panoram munitions. platform, which runs aroun unexplode and all the of 30 metres, offers 360° vi the ramp b
for the café and the energy
From up here, it is clear jus
Wilhelmsburg really is. Wha project to be carried out as
“Cities and Climate Change
“Georgswerder Energy Hill”
Hamburg’s largest open ph INTERNATIONAL BUILDING EXHIBITION HAMBURG of
the “Energy Bunker”.
Sub-Projects programme funding, and the relevant appliOverall, the »Energy Bunker« project consists cations were made. The European Regional of four sub-projects that can be seen as strictDevelopment Fund (ERDF) funded the conly separate from one another according to struction of the energy centre and the heat their responsibilities, in particular in the congrid with a total of € 3.1 million. The money conversion : the ground plans and roof views of the former air raid bunker before the conversion text of the financing and funding situation: came from the 2007–2013 funding period, e current uses could be imple1. Buildingto renovation and conversion under field of action 1.3 (“Environmental he ruined building Materials Area:needed 47 x 47m (Ground floor base 57 Additional Features (client and support: IBA Hamburg GmbH; technology, resource efficiency, renewable Concrete d. The first stepx was 57m)to clear the Cafe funding: Ham-deck forms of energy”), and was &made available Photovoltaic solar panels Energy centre:Free 5625and m² Hanseatic City ofViewing the bunker of the 25,000 tonnes Solar panel façade: Approx. 1600 m² burg); in 2011. The City of Hamburg also funded e rubble from the collapsed floors. (south side) was to implement the new uses 2. Energy the construction of the solar shell with € 1.3 ginal design of the bunker centre pro- and heat grid Photovoltaic system: Approx. 1100 (client, million of funding from the Hamburg Climate very openings and) itoperator, was withfew minimal onno theand funding: HAMBURG m² impact (roof ENERGIE; support: ERDF); Protection Concept. cessible on the inside due to the ns of both conservation and cost3. Solar shell n, an external staircase was built operator, and funding: HAMBURG amework onbasic the(client, eastern side ofwas the ssible, the structure ENERGIE; support: FHH climate protection This allowed emergency structuemaining floors, old parts funds); to be carried out on the upper of the rder to prevent collapse. During walls), or restored (e.g. the uction phase the experts involved d with major problems thatas do curves not xisting elements such ear their head in »normal« constand passages were used as part s described below.
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Restoration of the Building
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he bunker has retained its solid
ed Ordnance in the Building Rubble e monstrosity«, although it has metre access hole was carved out of rn outer wall. Within two weeks the C.5. Restoration of the Building e solar shell Plans attached to its outer theMultiple bunker layers: before the conversion Fig.of 21: ground plans and roof views of the former air raid bunker before the conversion ugh was complete, and construcBefore the current uses could be implen by the openings lesplaces could enter the bunker via mented, amade the ruined building needed to sign. be repaired. The first step was to clear the ed on the outside. Heavy demolisections of the bunker before conversion Fig.Cross 22: Monolith: cross-sections of the former air raidthe bunker before the conversion y centre. As such, the bunker interior of the bunker of the 25,000 tonnes les used gripper tongs to loosen of concrete rubble from the collapsed floors. aim of the architects was to implement the new uses As the original design of the bunker prothe concrete rubble, working dvevice versa.The vided for very openingsimpact and it was in and Plans aroundto the building withfew minimal onno the rom top to bottom. use longer accessible on the inside due to the originalfor structure, for reasonsanofexternal both conservation and costchunks of concrete the exterior demolition, staircase was built into the framework on the eastern side of the effectiveness.due As far uld not be implemented to as possible, the basic structure was Café building. This allowed emergency structuost, as the rubble would therefore lefthave untouched (remaining floors, ral repairs to be carried out onold the parts upper of the wers housesadditional the <vju> Café floors in order to prevent collapse. During rther without protection façades), repaired (outer walls), or restored (e.g. the the construction phase the experts involved tmic haveterrace. contained the remains of were faced with major problems thatas do curves not inner supporting pillars). Existing elements such This cantilevered normally . The building had to be probed for rear their head in »normal« constin the staircase, openings, and passages were used as part as described below. come industrial waste heat, which is also amount of annual renewable heat work due nd the whole at firm, aruction, height ed ordnance by building a specialised derived without the additional use of resourtheretained high run-times of the generators, at of the renovation. Overall, the bunkertohas its solid e rubble had to be transportedUnexploded over Ordnanceabout in the 85 Building Rubble ces, then heat from the co-generation unit, per cent. In theory, the tank could iews over almost all of appearance as aHamburg. »concrete monstrosity«, although it has A 15 × 7 metre access hole carved out of and finally heat from the wood chip boiler. also was cover the heat supply alone for 18 hours; by truck and disposed of externally. the western outer wall. Within two weeks the
summer it to could meet the requirements now been enhanced by the solar shellin attached its outer st how fascinating and varied breakthrough was complete, and construcfor several days.
This interaction between different sources of heat, the necessary control technology, surfaces, and interrupted in places by the openings tion vehicles could enter the bunker via amade and a storage tank of such dimensions make ramp raised on the outside. Heavy demoliat’s more, the second sections of thethis bunker before conversion Fig.Cross 22: Monolith: cross-sections of project the former raidthe bunker before for the café andmajor the energy centre. AsPriority such,Circuit the bunker a air model example ofthe thisconversion type tion vehicles used gripper tongs to loosen of system. As such, the technology is being A priority circuit determines what is fed into and remove the concrete the theme district, and vice versa. rubble, working part of the showcases exhibition researched and optimised so that projects the buffer storage carefully from top to bottom. Plans to use tank and when. The priorithat seek to imitate it can benefit from this ty is given to solar thermal heat, which is the individual chunks of concrete for the exterior e” is almost AatCafé eye level – the experience and help to put climate protecmost environmentally valuable, as it does not design could not be implemented due to with a View: <vju> Café tion measures into practice. require rawhave materials to be purchased and the high cost, as the rubble would One ofwind the bunker’s flak towers houses the <vju> Café ”, with its giant turbines andwithout eroded further additional protection consumed. In descending order of priority might haveterrace. contained the remains of and its remarkableand panoramic This cantilevered
Fig. had 23: to Start of conversion: for construction vehicles to gain access... The building be probed for hotovoltaic system, lies tomunitions. the east come industrial waste heat, which is also amount of annual renewable heat work due platform, which runs around ordnance the whole at firm, a height unexploded by building a specialised and all the rubble had to be transported over the ramp by truck and disposed of externally.
of 30 metres, offers 360° views over almost all of Hamburg.
to the high run-times of the generators, at about 85 per cent. In theory, the tank could also cover the heat supply alone for 18 hours; in summer it could meet the requirements
derived without the additional use of resources, then heat from the co-generation unit, and finally heat from the wood chip boiler. This interaction between different sources
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IBA Apartment Building
Adjaye Associates
2013 Project description
Typology
Location
A sculpted cube occupies the southern edge of the international building exposition in Wilhelmsburg, a district in Hamburg. Adjaye Associates won the competition hosted by the IBA with a proposal for a house whose structural system consists of prefabricated solid-timber floor decks and walls, and a composite structure of wood and concrete spans the supporting walls. The floor plan is organised around the circulation core, which extends the entire width of the building; two units of equal size bracket the core. Four stories were fully assembled in four weeks
Housing
Am Inselpark 13, 21109 Hamburg
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Area:1,100 sqm Storeys:4 Number of units:7 Dual aspect: 100%
Additional Features House as a set of building blocks, service core, modules, apartments, maisonettes, inset balconies
Materials Larch Plywood
Neue Hamburger Terrassen
LAN
2013
Architects
Project description
Typology
Location
The deisgn of Neue Hamburger Terrassen draws on Hamburg’s architectural heritage of the traditional Terrasse, a “row-house” type of worker housing. The blocks are constructed using cement blocks to the facades and clad in the timber panels which were prefabricated off site in sizes upto 9x3m
Housing
Hamburg
The external spaces free from physical divisions and appear completely open. Planted spaces to the front of homes are unfenced to reinforce the idea of terrace and street. Each home is provided with private amenity space in the form of either a balcony or ground floor terrace.
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Site surface area : 1,2 hectares Net plan area (architectural phase): 3,500m²Storeys: Number of units: 33 Construction budget: € 5,7 m.
Additional Features
Materials
Terrace housing 100% dual aspect
cement blocks Douglas Fir Colored PVC and triple-glazed windows Cellulose insulation
rossing rossing rossing ary. ary. ary.
ing ing units units ing units
buted buted buted d d d
Terraces Terraces Terraces Houses Houses Houses
The The housing housing units units are are crossing crossing The housing unitsisare crossing and their service and their service is lineary. lineary. and their service is lineary.
The The empty empty spaces spaces are are of of 2 2 kinds: kinds: The empty spaces are of 2 kinds: -- narrow inner courtyards narrow inner courtyards -- narrow inner courtyards - tree tree planted planted alleys alleys dedicated dedicated to to pe pe -where tree planted alleys dedicated to pe inhabitants can meet. where inhabitants can meet. where inhabitants can meet.
The repetition repetition of of the the type type leads leads The The The empty empty spaces spaces are are of of 2 2 kinds: kinds: The repetition of the type leads The empty spaces are of 2 kinds: to an uniform facade, where housing -- narrow inner courtyards to an uniform facade, where housing narrow inner courtyards to an cannot uniformbe facade, where housing -- narrow inner alleys courtyards units identified; collective tree planted dedicated to pedestrians units cannot be identified; collective - tree planted alleys dedicated to pedestrians units cannot be identified; collective -where tree planted alleys dedicated to pedestrians wins on on singular. singular. wins where inhabitants inhabitants can can meet. meet. wins on singular. where inhabitants can meet. The Housing Town The service service of of the the housing housing units units Housing units units overlook overlook on on a a tree tree pla pla Town The service of the housing units Housing units overlook on a tree pla Town is linear linear and and repetitive. repetitive. accessible to cars and pedestrians. House is accessible to cars and pedestrians. House is linear and repetitive. accessible to cars and pedestrians. House
Housing Housing units units overlook overlook on on a a tree tree planted planted alley, alley, Housing units overlook on a tree planted alley, accessible to cars and pedestrians. accessible to cars and pedestrians. accessible to cars and pedestrians. Neue Neue Neue Terrassen
Terrassen Terrassen
The The juxtaposition juxtaposition of of the the houses houses leads leads The juxtaposition of the houses leads to an an architectonic architectonic heterogeneity heterogeneity to to an architectonic heterogeneity
The The accesses accesses are are distributed distributed The accesses are distributed and garages are and garages are located located and garages are located at at the the corners. corners. at the corners.
The The Neue Neue Terrassen Terrassen combine combine advan advan Theone Neue Terrassen combine advan on hand they overlook on one hand they overlook on on a a tree tree on one hand they overlook on a tree street where neighbors can meet, street where neighbors can meet, an an street where inner neighbors can private meet, an the the other other on on inner gardens, gardens, private a a the other on inner gardens, private a
Comparison of typologies The The Neue Neue Terrassen Terrassen combine combine advantages: advantages: Theone Neue Terrassen combine advantages: on hand they overlook on one hand they overlook on on a a tree tree planted planted on onewhere handneighbors they overlook on a tree planted street can meet, street where neighbors can meet, and and on on street where neighbors can meet, and on the other on inner gardens, private and the other on inner gardens, private and shared. shared. the other on inner gardens, private and shared.
The The architectural architectural treatment treatment of of the the block block The architectural treatment of the block is homogeneous. The blocks is homogeneous. The blocks differ differ with with is homogeneous. The blocks differ with the pattern of the timber cladding. the pattern of the timber cladding. the pattern of the timber cladding.
edestrians edestrians edestrians
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The The repetition repetition of of the the type type leads leads The repetition of the type leads to an uniform facade, to an uniform facade, where where housing housing to an cannot uniformbe facade, where housing units identified; collective units cannot be identified; collective units cannot be identified; collective wins wins on on singular. singular. wins on singular.
anted anted alley, alley, anted alley, .. .
The The juxtaposition juxtaposition of of the the houses houses leads leads The juxtaposition of the houses leads to an architectonic heterogeneity to an architectonic heterogeneity to an architectonic heterogeneity
ntages: ntages: ntages: e e planted planted end planted nd on on nd on and and shared. shared. and shared.
The The architectural architectural treatment treatment of of the the block block The architectural treatment of the block is is homogeneous. homogeneous. The The blocks blocks differ differ with with is homogeneous. The blocks differ with the pattern of the timber cladding. the pattern of the timber cladding. the pattern of the timber cladding.
Student Living
Limbrock Tubbesing
2015 Project description
Typology
Location
The development in Schellerdamm, is home to 193 students. The building is divided into five sections, varying between five and eight storeys. Glass-walled staircases provide a visual dividing line between the sections, while allowing uninterrupted views across the building. Four courtyards lie beyond the staircases, on the roof of the ground floor. The student apartments are grouped around these courtyards and give the complex its distinctive comb-like structure. The buildings are clad with square formed ceramic tiles which give the facades a decorative but robust appearance.
Student Accommodation
Schellerdamm 1-7 Hamburg
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Storeys: various from 5 - 8 Number of units: unknown Dual aspect: 100%
Additional Features Courtyards
Materials Ceramic tiles Render
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Elbphilharmonie
Herzog & de Meuron
Project description
Typology
Location
The building complex accommodates a philharmonic hall, a chamber music hall, restaurants, bars, a panorama terrace with views of Hamburg and the harbour, apartments, a hotel and parking facilities. These varied uses are combined in one building as they are in a city. The two contradictory and superimposed architectures of the Kaispeicher and the Philharmonic ensure exciting, varied spatial sequences: the original and archaic feel of the Kaispeicher marked by its relationship to the harbour; and the sumptuous, elegant world of the Philharmonic. In between, there is an expansive topography of public and private spaces, all differing in character and scale: the large terrace of the Kaispeicher, extending like a new public plaza, responds to the inwardly oriented world of the Philharmonic built above it.
Cultural Building
Platz der Deutschen Einheit 1 20457 Hamburg
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Storeys: 24 Uses: Residential and Cultural complex: • 2100 seat Philharmonic Hall • 550 seat Chamber Music Hall • Restaurants and bars • 45 Apartments • 250 room Hotel
Additional Features Public plaza
Materials Decorative fritted glass Bespoke opening vents Existing brickwork
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Section 1 Main entrance 2 Escalators 3 Parking 4 Performance spaces “Kaistudios” 5 Conference area 6 Restaurant 7 Lookout 8 Plaza 9 Void Plaza 10 Chamber Music Hall 11 Foyer 12 Main Concert Hall 13 Canopy 14 Air intake unit 15 Construction space 16 Hotel 17 Void hotel 18 Residential 19 Void residential
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Research trip II - Zürich Scrapbook
F O R R E F E R E N C E U S E O N LY NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION
February 2016
James Walker, Andrew Rowson, Melanie Bax, Chris Fellner, Alex Surguladze, Katherine Nolan, Tomoyo Arimoto, Calum Ward, Fred Howarth
Architect
Project
Baumschlager & Eberle
Ruggächern
07
Caruso St John
Europallee Baufeld E
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Diener & Diener
Mobimo Tower
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David Chipperfield, Gigon / Guyer, Max Dudler
Europallee
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EM2N
Neufrankengasse
23
Toni Areal
27
Wohnüberbauung Brunnenhof
31
Löwenbräu
35
Pflegi Areal
39
Knapkiewicz & Fickert
Wohnüberbauung Klee
43
Loelinger Strub
Hohes Haus West
47
Meili & Peter
City West Complex
51
Meili & Peter / Office Winhov
Zölly Tower
55
Müller Sigrist
Kalkbreite
59
Peter Märkli
Hohlstrasse
63
Shigeru Ban
Tamedia
67
Theo Hotz
MFH Baker / Rotwandstrasse
71
Von Ballmoos Kruker
Wohnüberbauung Stöckenacker
75
Gigon / Guyer
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Contents
Typology
Year
Size
Housing
2007
XL
Housing & Retail
2013
L
Hotel & Residential
2011
L
Office
2013
L
Housing
2013
M
Education / Culture / Housing
2014
XL
Housing
2007
L
Housing / Retail / Office / Culture
2014
XL
Housing
2002
M
Co - Housing
2011
XL
Housing
2013
L
Housing
2014
XL
Housing
2014
L
Co - Housing / Retail / Office / Hotel
2013
L
Housing
2006
S
Office
2013
M
Housing
2000
S
Housing
2001r
M
Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single core per block - Internal central core - 3 units per core
- Masterplan - Single level apartments - Medium rise blocks - Buildings in landscape - Dual aspect
- Inset balconies - Mounded landscape
- Brick facade - Punched windows - Metalwork balustrades - Concrete cills
37 m 20 m
Ruggächern, 2007
Baumschlager & Eberle
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Affoltern, Zürich West 28.327m2 site area 50.000 m² GIA
- 5 to 7 storeys - 278 apartments for housing co-operative - 1B2P - 3B5P - Single level flats - Three apartments per block per floor - 14 mid rise blocks
- Underground (under mounded landscape) car park. - Club room - Day nursery - Senior citizens’ club
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1 - 500 section
1 - 500 typical floor plan
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Residential entrance cores on railway facing elevation - Shop fronts on main street facing elevation - 3 main cores
- Part of Europeallee Masterplan - Mixed use - Double Height commercial ground floor - 4 Stories of office space - Two distinct towers, 11 and 13 floors in height respectively
- Winter gardens
- Precast Concrete - Terrazzo - Gold Anodized Aluminium Window Frames
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Museumstrasse 1, 2013
Caruso St John
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Europallae, Zürich CH 30,000 m² GIA
- 11 to 13 stories - Single story with double height spaces in penthouses
- Ground Floor Cafe - Retail units - 1:1 construction make up display
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Facade Build-up
Bay Study
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Four buildings form a continuous perimeter block with a public central courtyard accessible via generous passageways.
- Office, retail to ground
- Internal courtyard
- Printed synthetic mesh - Ventilated layer glazing with metallically shimmering fabric inserts - Perforated aluminium mesh -Dark green cast stone
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Europaallee, 2013
Max Dudler, David Chippfield, Gigon Guyer
Site
Accomodation
Additional features
Situated beside Zurich’s main train station, it is designed by three architects, brought together on the initiative of Max Dudler. - 56,700sqm
- Office use
- Unified facade through the provision of bridges and a continual floor plate. -Individual expression in facades and interior finishes
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North Elevation
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L-R: David Chipperfield, Gigon Guyer, Max Dudler, Gigon Guyer
Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Two cores - Seven lifts / two stairs - 80 meters / 24 storeys
- Masterplan - Apartments - Hotel - Point block - Stacking
- Inset balconies - Shared courtyard
- Load bearing ‘prismatic shell’ - Stone facade
N 1:2000
City West Complex
Diener & Diener
Mobimo Tower, 2011
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Turbinenstrasse, Zürich West
- 24 storeys - 36 luxury apartments - 300 hotel rooms - 1B2P - 3B6P - 98m2 - 324m2 - Four apartments per floor
Restaurant, ball room, conference rooms, offices, gym, wellness facilities
Part of Maag Areal masterplan including Zölly Tower (Meili & Peter residential) and Prime Tower (Gigon / Guyer office). 41.401m2
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1 - 500 ground floor plan
1 - 500 typical hotel floor
1 - 200 typical three bedroom apartment
1 - 500 typical residential floor
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single point residents access - Localised cores
- Residential - Split level apartments
- Outboard balconies
- Load bearing facade - Pre-cast concrete - Punch windows
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Neufrankengasse, 2013
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Turbinenstrasse, Zürich West Alongside railway tracj
- 29 dwellings - Bedrooms and loggias face south to the quiet courtyard. - Entrance, wet rooms and cloakrooms centrally positioned. - Depending on their position in the building some apartments are double-height.
Generously dimensioned loggias connect the spacious living areas to the courtyard
North Elevation
South Elevation
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Separate entrances to residential tower and cultural uses. - Several cores to access the tower
- Masterplan - Retrofitting former milk processing factory constructed in 1976 - Mixed use - university & residential - Residential tower
- Rooftop terraces
- Existing concrete frame - Metal panel cladding
1:1000
Toni Areal, 2014
EM2N
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Pfingstweidstrasse, Zürich West
- 100 apartments housed in the tower
Educational and cultural facilities
84 500m2 universities, 13 500m2 apartments, 10 000m2 underground car parking + other 108 000m2
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- 7 cores - Western block 6 storeys - Eastern block 4/5 storeys
- Masterplan - Split level apartments - Point block - Stacking
- Blocks raised above ground level to create defensible space - Shared childrens playpark and access to park.
- Reflecting, matt, translucent and transparent coloured surfaces - Alternately coloured glass panels - Storey-height windows - Concrete bands wrap horizontally around the building
35 m
10 m
N 1:1000
Brunnenhof Housing Complex, 2007
Gigon / Guyer
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Brunnenhofstrasse, Zürich
- Two different building volumes bounding a park - 72 large family apartments - 5B6P - Flats - Eight apartments per floor on western block. 6 apartments per floor on eastern block.
Recreation room, kindergarten, creche, underground parking with 75 parking spaces.
Two angled, elongated volumes of different heights bound Buchegg Park. 18,437m2
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Five cores - Five lifts / five stairs - 70 meters / 20 storeys
- Mixed use - Cantilever - Point block - Stacking
- Shared courtyard - Inward opening windows - Penthouse wintergardens
- Concrete frame - Glazed cermic cladding - Aluminium window frames
N 1:1000
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Löwenbräu-Areal Residential towers, 2014
Existing buildings (grey) / Project (yellow)
Löwenbräu-Areal Arts Centre, Residential Tower, and Office Building, Zurich Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer, Architekten, Zürich
Silo
Kunst Wohnen Büros Silo
Art
0118
Offices
Löwenbräuareal - Kunstzentrum mit Wohn- und Bürogebäude, Zürich, 2003 - 2012
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Bereiche / Nutzungen
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10
20
40m
© GIGON / GUYER , atelier ww
The site includes the listed historical Brewer’s Yard, which is a traffic-free courtyard and provides access to the immediate buildings. The new entrance to the art institutions can be found in the open Art Courtyard which also includes parking spaces for visitors and a delivery entrance. Together with the entrance area to the art section and the additional storey at this end of the complex, the New West Building projects at right angles and adjoins the former workshops on the courtyard side. It includes art rooms, guest accommodation and offices. The New West Building and the additional storey to the art building have been designed as a homogenous, white concrete structures. The close interweaving of the new and old sections of this building have led to a material finish that sets these sections apart from the existing structure.
Longitudinal section Sihlquai
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Löwenbräuareal - Kunstzentrum mit Wohn- und Bürogebäude, Zürich, 2003 - 2012
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10
20
40m
© GIGON / GUYER , atelier ww
The New East Office Building is built directly on Limmatstrasse where it supplements the existing buildings. The entrance lobby to the offices is situated on the ground floor. The varied widths of the rooms on the upper office floors enable them to be adapted to suit a range of different office layout types. The Office Building refers to the existing buildings in structure, material and colour, but its surface texture anchors the building in the present.
420 x120 mm
420 x 120 mm
Vero 600mm
mweg Dam
The Central High-Rise Residential Building, with its large overhanging projection to the south, comprises of one to four apartments on each floor. The volume contracts at one level to continue in the form of an angular base structure down into the Brewer’s Yard. The high-rise includes 35 apartments with views over the city, the lake and the Limmat valley, and 21 apartments in the base structure which face south into the quiet courtyard. The facades of the Residential Building and the New East Office Building are clad with black and red glazed moulded ceramic elements, which pick up on the coloured brickwork of the existing buildings. The walls form different grid structures with the play of light on their ceramic surfaces, lending the structure a changing appearance when viewed from different angles.
FOL
WLP
IH/WLP
WLP
RWA
IH/WLP
48.328m2
A former brewery complex, the history of the Löwenbräu site is one of remodeling; adding to and replacing parts of the existing buildings. The new project builds on the successful conversion to an art exhibition and gallery complex while supplementing it with new residential, office and exhibition spaces. Apart from the retention of the original historical buildings, the urban development plan stipulates three new buildings: The New West Building, to expand potential use for the arts, the New East Office Building, and the Central High-Rise Residential Building. Therefore, a new urban ensemble evolves naturally, with the Central High-rise Residential Building defining the site’s silhouette together with the steel tower and the Swiss Mill silos.
Living
WLP
Remodelling and expansion of former beer brewery; addition to the existing galleries with new residential, office and exhibition
- Galleries, shops, museum, offices
WLP
- 20 storeys - 58 luxury apartments - 1B2P - 3B5P
Additional features
WLP
Limmatstrasse
Consortium Arge Löwenbräuareal: Gigon / Guyer Architects and Atelier WW Collaborators G / G: Volker Mencke (Planning, Team Manager), Daniel Friedmann, Bettina Gerhold, Reto Killer, Kathrin Sindelar, Damien Andenmatten, Yvonne Grunwald, Alex Zeller, Pieter Rabijns; Atelier WW: Peter Epprecht (Project Manager), Tatjana Abenseth, Özgül Kale, Eric Hoffmann, Claudia Keichel, Martin Pellkofer, Thomas Huber Competition: 2003, two ex aequo 1st Prizes: Gigon/Guyer and Atelier WW Planning/ Construction: 2006 – 2013 Gross Floor Area (based on SIA 416): 48‘500 m2 Client: PSP Properties AG, Zug
ELT
Apartments
Gerstenstrasse
Site
Limmatstrasse
Ground floor 0118
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Löwenbräuareal - Kunstzentrum mit Wohn- und Bürogebäude, Zürich, 2003 - 2012
Löwenbräuareal - Kunstzentrum mit Wohn- und Bürogebäude, Zürich, 2003 - 2012
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Residential Tower with Turn-an
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Horizontal and vertical section scale 1:20 2014 ¥ 5 ∂ 1 textile solar/glare protection screen 2 turn-and-tilt-lift window 2400 ≈ 2100 mm, U = 0.87 W/m2K, g = 0.07 in combination with sun shading; 8 mm toughened glass baffle plate, 5 6 operable for cleaning; 180 mm ventilated interstitial space, with textile solar/glare protection curtain solar/thermal glazing: 6 mm + 16 mm cavity + 6 mm + 16 mm cavity + laminated safety glass of 2≈ 6 mm, U = 0.6 W/m2K 3 60 mm ceramic cladding, black glaze, profiled 40 mm ventilation cavity 180 mm rockwool insulation with glass-fibre foil 3 250 mm reinforced concrete glass railing fastened with 8 mm sheet steel; 15 mm plasterboard 4 safety railing: laminated safety glass of 2≈ 10 mm heat-strengthened glass 5 motor and control unit 6 opening for crank for manual operation 7 guide rail on ceiling 8 carriage
nd-tilt-lif Windows – Smooth Facade with Balcony Ambiance
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F Location of pivot when window is open G Lower connection when window is open H Opened position: the carriage is connected to the operable sash via a pivot joint and slides in the guide rail to return to the closed position. I section In sufficiently large apartments the windows can Horizontal and vertical scale 1:20 1 textile solar/glare protection screen be used to create a loggia zone. 2 turn-and-tilt-lift window 2400 ≈ 2100 mm, U = 0.87 W/m K, g =A 0.07 in combination with underfloor heating is at once an inloggia with sun shading; 8 mm toughened glass baffle plate, operable for cleaning; 180 mmand ventilated interstitial door outdoor space. 6 space, with textile solar/glare protection curtain a
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solar/thermal glazing: 6 mm + 16 mm cavity + 6 mm + 16 mm cavity + laminated safety glass of 2≈ 6 mm, U = 0.6 W/m2K 60 mm ceramic cladding, black glaze, profiled 40 mm ventilation cavity 180 mm rockwool insulation with glass-fibre foil 250 mm reinforced concrete glass railing fastened with 8 mm sheet steel; 15 mm plasterboard safety railing: laminated safety glass of 2≈ 10 mm heat-strengthened glass motor and control unit opening for crank for manual operation guide rail on ceiling carriage
4 F Location of pivot when window is open G Lower connection when window is open H Opened position: the carriage is connected to the operable sash via a pivot joint and slides in the guide rail to return to the closed position. I In sufficiently large apartments the windows can be used to create a loggia zone. A loggia with underfloor heating is at once an indoor and outdoor space.
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Shared core - One lift / one stair - 2 units per floor
- Apartment block
- Private courtyard - Inset balconies / wintergarden
- In situ concrete - Mineral paint finish
N 1:1000
Pflegi Areal, 2002
Gigon Guyer 39
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Carmenstrasse 32-38, Zürich New build housing and refurbishment of existing Hospital building
- 3 to 5 residential storeys - 48 apartments - 11 Atelier spaces - Office spaces - two apartments per floor
- Artist involvement in colour scheme for courtyard facades
Zurich, Pflegi – Areal Gigon/Guyer
Zurich, Pflegi – Areal Gigon/Guyer
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Sixteen cores - Sixteen lifts / sixteen stairs - Maisonettes include internal stairs - 8 storeys
- Courtyard - Stacking - Double Height - Mixed typologiesv
- Large planted courtyards - Roof terrace
- Concrete frame - Render - Aluminium window frames
Wohnüberbauung Klee, 2011
Knapkiewicz & Fickert
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Mühlackerstrasse, Affoltern Zurich
- 8 storeys - 340 co-op apartments - 1B2P - 4B6P
- Laundry rooms on roofs - Creche - Clubhouse
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single core - One lift / one stair - 40 meters / 11 storeys
- Point block - Set-backs - Shifted facade
- Public square - Shared roof terrace - Projecting balconies
- Metal cladding - Bespoke high end finishes - Double sliding windows
N 1:1000
Hohes Haus West, 2013
Loeliger Strub Architektur 47
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Weststrasse 20, Zürich Infill site
- 10 residential storeys - 18 luxury 2bed apartments - Flats from level 1-8 - Maisonettes on level 9-10 - two apartments per floor
- Ground commercial space
1 - 200 section
1 - 200 ninth floor plan
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single core - Three lifts / two stairs - 80 meters / 24 storeys
- Masterplan - Split level apartments - Point block - Stacking
- Inset balconies - Shared courtyard
- Load bearing facade - Pre-cast concrete - Corner windows
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N 1:1000
Meili & Peter, Office Winhov 51
City West Complex Zölly Tower, 2014
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Turbinenstrasse, Zürich West
- 24 storeys - 128 luxury apartments - 1B2P - 3B5P - Flats / split level apartments. - Seven apartments per floor
Ground floor offices & retail.
Part of Maag Areal masterplan including Möbimo Tower (Diener & Diener hotel / residential) and Prime Tower (Gigon / Guyer office). 23.850m2
1 - 200 ninth floor plan
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1 - 500 section
Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Six cores - Courtyard and guesthouse accessed from large staircase
- Point block - Set-backs - Shifted facade
- Public garden / courtyard - Private roof gardens
- Metal cladding - Bespoke high end finishes - Double sliding windows
N 1:1000
Kalkbreite, 2014
Müller Sigrist
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Kalkbreitestrasse 2, Zürich Built around active tram depot
- 5 residential storeys - 88 apartments - Shared guest rooms - Additional function rooms for residents
- 20 non resi rooms - Ground floor commercial spaces - Offices - Guest house
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single core - One lift and one stair - 6 storeys
- Apartment block - Penthouse at top floor level - Stacking - 100% dual aspect
- Half inset balconies for flat private amenity space - Roof terrace for penthouse - Facing park
- Render finish facade - Full height and corner windows - Metal balustrade - Exposed concrete internally
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Hohlstrasse
Peter Märkli
2005
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Hohlstrasse 78, Zürich
- From G+1 to G+5 floor level - 9 - 10 apartments - Two apartments (1B2P and 3B5P) per floor - Flats
Ground floor offices & retail.
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1-200 Typical floor plan
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single core - Three lifts / two stairs - 80 meters / 24 storeys
- Refurbishment and extension - Prefabrication - 6 storeys building
- Shared indoor/outdoor terrace spaces - Facing river
- Exposed timber structure - Curtain wall facade - Prefabricated timber structure
Fourth floor plan
N 1:1000
Ground floor plan
Tamedia Office Building
Shigeru Ban
2013
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Werdstrasse 21, Zürich
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Offices only
12,120 m2
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- 6 storeys
- Split level apartments (assumed)
- Shared rear courtyard - Rooftop terrace - Infill balconies to rear
- Concrete frame - Curtain wall glazing
Backerstrasse Apartments
Theo Hotz 67
2000
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Turbinenstrasse, Zürich West
- 6 storeys - 5 apartments
Ground floor offices & retail.
Part of Maag Areal masterplan including Möbimo Tower (Diener & Diener hotel / residential) and Prime Tower (Gigon / Guyer office). 23.850m2
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Access
Typology
Landscape
Materials
- Single core - Three lifts / two stairs - 80 meters / 24 storeys
- Masterplan - Split level apartments - Point block - Stacking
- Inset balconies - Shared courtyard
- Load bearing facade - Pre-cast concrete - Corner windows
Wohnüberbauung Stöckernacker, 2003
Von Ballmoos Kruker 71
Site
Apartments
Additional features
Turbinenstrasse, Zürich West
- 24 storeys - 128 luxury apartments - 1B2P - 4B6P - Flats / split level apartments. - Seven apartments per floor
Ground floor offices & retail.
Part of Maag Areal masterplan including Möbimo Tower (Diener & Diener hotel / residential) and Prime Tower (Gigon / Guyer office). 23.850m2
Haus C / Stöckenackerstr. 15
Wohnen/Essen 36.4 m2
Zimmer 2 14.7 m2
Küche 6.6 m2
Balkon 9.9 m2
Zimmer 1 14.8 m2
Entrée/Korridor 14.7 m2 Reduit 3.1 m2
Bad/WC 6.0 m2
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3.OG 2.OG 1.OG EG UG
WC 3.4 m2
Zimmer 3 20.6 m2
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